Whew, it's been a while since I posted. Didn't realize just how long. I'm determined to continue with the blog but have decided not to try to put in so many pictures because that slows me down. Brenna is 15 months old, Kathryn is about to graduate from pre-K, Travis had another surgery, and both Harold and I have Blackberries, although he's using his as a paperweight. There are a couple of neat stories I wanted to get down on virtual paper before I forget them:
1) A couple of months ago, I was watching TV and Kathryn came in and sat down beside me. She asked, "What do you mean when you say you love me?" I thought fast and started to say, "When I say I love you, my heart goes soft and I smile....," then I noticed she was looking up and whispering something. I asked her why she's whispering, and she said, "I asked God if that was right, and he said yes." Wow! That ranks right up there with Brenna saying Gigi and Kristi giving me the artwork for my 50th that had 50 words that remind her of me. I'm blessed.
The next time Kathryn bowled me over was about three weeks ago. I had picked her up from school and brought her to my office for a snack while I finished up some work. She was coloring and playing, and then she stopped and said, "Mama, what's my first mother's name?" She knows she's adopted and from Russia, but we've never talked a lot about her mother other than to say that she loved Kathryn so much but couldn't take care of her and found her a home with us so we could. However, we'd never talked specifically about her. I hadn't looked at her name since the adoption and remembered her middle name (a derivation from her father's) but not her first. I told Kathryn that I couldn't remember right then but would look it up and tell her. She said, "Okay, because I don't want to forget my first mother's name!" I thought that was so sweet. A couple of days later, I remembered to look up the name and said, "Kathryn, you asked me what your first mother's name is and it's Galina." She stood quietly for a moment, repeated the name and then said, "Okay!" and skipped off to play. Kids!
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