My sister Amy introduced me to Matthew Perryman Jones. My favorite song opens his CD Throwing Punches in the Dark. This is for our sweet Liliana, who’s come to us from so far away. Some days I can’t believe she’s made such a trip, and I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we’d […]
Ramize in Kosovo
I’ve been a little low the past two days, and I know it’s directly related to the 24/7 kind of schedule I’m keeping with Liliana. I’m fully aware that I need to remember how good I have it, and that I chose this hands-on motherhood path for a reason. So my thoughts have been on […]
Snowfall
It’s a peaceful blue night, with snow falling as thick as coconut flakes. The turkey lumber through, tamp down the snow, and pause under the bird feeders to see if any seed might have fallen. There are forty-eight, which is still below our record of seventy-five, all at one time. These snowed-in kind of nights […]
Taking It In Stride
I can’t say that I’m graceful under pressure. I can’t say that I’m grateful for any stress, be it illness or tension or unexpected difficulties. I have to talk myself through them, as in, “Elissa, okay, yes, this awful thing is happening to you right now, but you know what? Maybe it’s not so bad. […]
Surgery
My silence the past three days has been because our little chipmunk had thumb surgery (for a minor congenital defect that I mentioned before in a post–the whole reason we were able to adopt her, since she’d been rejected several times before…how lucky are we??). She had an overnight stay on Tuesday (I slept in […]