Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, pictures, Rainbow on July 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Going back through the photos in my phone, some shots that caught my eye:
Look at those cutie-pies: Daddy J with Rockinrolla and a very chunky Ward by the pool in Mexico.
Heh. Rockinrolla and the Fishmaster in the house that burned. They LOVED Bionicles and used to create new creatures out of them. Rockinrolla especially was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged remembering our butterfly on July 26, 2009 | 18 Comments »
So.
At this point, four years ago, I guess he’d have been in the PICU at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, hooked up to a bazillion tubes, with various doctors lining up for their turn with him.
We were hearing things like very injured little boy and pray for a miracle and don’t lose hope. And later, things like [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adoption, remembering our butterfly on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Behind the Great Big Wooden Playground at the recreation center in our county seat, there is a little wooden bridge that leads to the walking trail. In between the bridge and the walking trail, there are countless limestone boulders sunken into the ground. Some are enormous, some are just your basic rocks, and many have super-cool waterworn [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dreaming on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I haven’t had a dream of Ward in a very long time, it seems, but this was definitely a special one.
Dream interpreters, put your hats on and tell me what you think:
I was swimming in a very beautiful outdoor place. It may have been a very slow river, or else a long lake. The water [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged remembering our butterfly on July 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
It’s that time of year again.
I never wanted to know the actual date of his accident. For many months, it was just “late July” that it happened. It was a defense mechanism; I feared that I would obsessively count days since I had seen him last. Also, it was somewhat unclear what day to actually figure [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Hunger Site is completely free. Donations are paid for by advertisers; you don’t have to read anything or do a survey or anything that takes time. You just go here and click on “click here to give” and it says you’ve just donated 1.1 cups of food to the hungry.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged remembering our butterfly on July 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I think I’m going to stop visiting grieving parent sites entirely.
They were such a lifeline after Ward’s accident. I loved MISS foundation and chatting at the Compassionate Friends. I’ve just checked in there sporadically in the past year or so, although I’ve lurked at MISS some recently to read posts about parenting susbsequent babies after [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged parenting, Rainbow on July 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The sleep thing is going remarkably well with Rainbow.
(she said, then knocked on every available chunk of wood)
Ward was really easy to get to sleep when he was a toddler. He would announce (within the same twenty minute or so window every night) that it was time to go to his jungle, and that was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged pictures, random chitchat on July 12, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Here it is.
Yes.
This is what we have.
(Also: Isn’t it weird how one of my eyes is bigger than the other? Is that how everybody’s eyes are?)
And what have we learned from this, you ask? Because that’s what mistakes are, right? Learning opportunities.
1. My hair does not do short and layered. Or short of any variety. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
was a COLOSSAL and NOT CHEAP mistake.
I don’t know why I bothered to print out pictures of the look I wanted; I should have skipped the step and told her I wanted something really short and lumpy.
I took pictures with my iphone but they are too awful to post for all eternity on the internet.
Which leads me to [...]
