I am in the middle of exams, I have a wedding to update (I’ve written snippets here and there, but I need to link them all together into something coherent), I have various other side projects demanding my attention – life is BUSY, yo. But I still managed to squeeze in jotting off this description…
Thanksgiving
You’re going crazy with the talking. Chip-Ip was reading you a Cars book, and you kept saying Nigh nigh a-queen! Lightning McQueen! Over and over. This morning, Jack yelled at Virgil for barking outside, and you went to the kitchen side door and yelled “BUDGIL! BUDGIL! BUUUUUUDGIL!” You were mimicking me (not at my best…
Christmas
We had Thanksgiving at your Dee Dee and Chip-Ip’s house. You played a lot with your cousin. You love Ella. When we got home, I put up the Christmas decorations in the house, which thrilled you to no end. You took the stuffed Patrick-star-Santa, and the stuffed Rudolph, and you had them talk to each…
Giving Thanks
On this lovely, warm, twinkling Thanksgiving morning, surrounded by family, hot coffee in hand, warm fire aglow in the corner, I am thankful for all of my many blessings. Attorney at Large wrote a lovely post about being grateful for even those things that don’t feel like blessings, and I thought that it would be a…
November
Time has passed. There were things I wanted to say, before. You learned to walk right at one. I missed it. I was working in Mobile. You were at your Dee Dee’s house. I came to visit, after your birthday, and right when you woke up somebody came and got me and said “watch this”…