Feel better baby girl, I can see you now all wrapped with your blankets and stuffed cuddlies. Wish you wanted me there to comfort you and help you feel better, sending love and get well wishes. <3 Geeze, it's been a bad winter for this stuff with my kids.
Sundays and Football just go together ~
Even the dog knows....go Giants!! Pre-game preparation under way ~ gonna be yummy!
Update: Awesome game, so worth the good bessie with homemade accoutriments. San Fran is next, look out 49ers, we're hot and hungry for it!
How 'bout them Giants! ~
Watched the game with my kids, well, not actually *with* them of course, but with them in spirit, I'm sure they were watching too. The NY Giants are our team, lovin' them winning! I sent them a "Go Giants" cheer text to their phones. NFC East Champs. Let's keep it going G-Men. We'll all be watching the same game again next week and rootin'!
Happy New Year! ~
Happy New Year to my kids ~ I love them both very much and I always will. Nothing, not even time or passing years will change that. And no matter where they are, they are always in my heart. I’ll just keep sending messages of love and acceptance, knowing that one day they will hear them and understand that a parent’s unconditional love will never just stop or go away. I will always be here for them, even though they act like they have no idea.
I spent my holidays surrounded by my wonderful family and friends. Everyone sends their love and continues to reach out to my kids. With a few days to myself, I managed to find some videos kicking around of my daughter’s school chorus concert and shared them with their grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. They sang a beautiful song about children, based on a poem by Khalil Gibran. I wonder if my daughter took a good look at the words, beyond just singing them? Gibran has written some really wonderful poems, with lots of timeless lines, like – “Rebellion without truth is like a spring in a bleak, arid desert”. I wonder if my kids have read any of his work? It really is good stuff. I wish I could find some videos of my son’s football team this year. There are a bunch from a few years ago, but no recent ones. You’d figure with all those video cameras out there, some footage would end up on the internet.
Every year on New Years, I make a wish for my children. Obviously I wish to see them, speak with them and re-establish our relationship together…but that’s a wish for me, which is different from a wish for them. They’ve had some wonderful experiences this past year, not the least of which was finally getting a new home of their own with their mother, which was my wish for them last year, so that’s good - great in fact. So this year was a challenge to find a wish that is similarly attainable for them and I came up with a few things:
I wish for them an awakening. I think this is a good wish because my daughter will be 16 and my son will start high school, both are milestones that often trigger an awareness in teens that wasn’t there before. I don’t know what that awakening will be, no parent really does ahead of time, we just wish that experience for our kids – that inevitable expansion of their minds into logic and reason and a sense of purpose they create for themselves by becoming more and more independent in thoughts and visions of their future, as well as truer, more experienced recollections of their past. I know this is a lifelong process – heck, my eyes are opened by new things every day – but it often starts here. So for 2012, I wish them a fresh start to their future, an awareness of what they need to do to get there, and a deeper look inside. Maybe they will even share what they learn with me.
And in the mean time …. how about them Giants! That’s our family team, we’ll all be watching and hoping for another SuperBowl win, and I’ll be thinking of my son every minute of every game. I know someday I’ll be watching him play again, maybe in the pros some day!
