This Reminds Me

Archive for May 18th, 2009

Today is the third anniversary of Julia’s homecoming.    We arrived after about 27 hours of travel from Moscow to Zurich to Dallas (where Julia became a citizen when the wheels of the plane touched ground) and finally to San Antonio.

Thanks, Shels, for thinking to have a camera out!  I sure wasn’t thinking.

We’ll celebrate our third  “Sisters Day” soon – doing something fun we all want to do.    Hanging our Russian flag.  Chanting the “loves Julia” mantra  I sung to my baby from our first mother/daughter day together in St. Pete.

And remembering that mixture of exhilaration and exhaustion when we finally had all four of our girls together in one room.

Then: Счастливо для нас!  (Be Happy for Us!)

Right Now:  My eldest and youngest are sitting next to me right this instant, thinking I don’t notice the computer game they’re playing isn’t “educational.”

Tonight at dinner, Rachel shared a variety of jokes/puzzlers  overheard at her after-school childcare job including,  “The orphan was on one side of the road, and her parents on the other.  How did she get across?”  Answer:  “She didn’t.  If she had parents, she’s not an orphan.”

Precisely, Rachel.  Precisely.