Surrounded

[vaneramos]

Sylvie has two violins, and offered one on longterm loan to Marian, to learn. She and Sarah brought it over last night and stayed for dinner. I'm grateful to see my daughters surrounded by so many good, caring adults, also evidenced in the kind comments yesterday on bitterlawngnome's photo series of Marian.

On the theme of kindness, my parents are buying the Sunfire for me when the lease ends in July. I took it for a safety check yesterday and it required expensive brake work, but in four years that's the first serious maintenance it has required.

At 11:20 this morning, the girls were still sleeping. I had to slip into my bedroom to get fresh clothes so I could go pick up the car. It filled my heart to see Marian's lovely face asleep on the pillow. Last time I saw, she was such a little girl. Brenna was hidden in the top bunk, ensconced behind a barricade of pillows. I walked into the room in her dream, she told me later.

We have a busy afternoon planned, including getting my drawings for Denver framed, shopping for a new violin string, and driving to Hamilton to see more of bitterlawngnome's photography and the show at you/me gallery. Tomorrow the girls go home for the long weekend, and I'm heading to Toronto for an anniversary.

A sudden thunder and hail storm knocked out power two hours ago during this writing. Fortunately I had just saved in preparation to post. We ran the in-town errands, came home so I could shower, and now are leaving for Hamilton. It would have been a great day for storm following. Mountainous atmosphere.

Comments

[clairenolen.livejournal.com]

enjoy your week-end! Happy Canada Day! :-)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and Happy Canada Day to you!

the innocence and joy of a sleeping child.......

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

Last week, as they slept on the futon next to our bed, I looked down at our godchildren, Joyce and April, now 4 & 3 respectively and then at LJ as he dozed next to Aaron, our wolf who was the only one of the 4 snoring. I gazed at them all, in wonder and gratitude, counting my blessings for their combined presence in my life, and how much richer I am for this privilege of loving them all, and after 5 minutes of this blessed wonderment, I crawled back into bed for a few more hours of sleep, before arising to meet the requirements of the day. Such contentment!

Re: the innocence and joy of a sleeping child.......

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that beautiful image. The teens have their own set of challenges, but I found the younger years more trying and exhausting. But always, they're beautiful when they're asleep. :-)

Re: the innocence and joy of a sleeping child.......

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome Van. I'm honoured to share an image of beauty with you, after all the ones you've shared with me (and others here).

As for trying and exhausting? Oh yeah! LJ often looks at me after we've had the girls for a day or two and asks, "How do straight people do this?" As for me, I'm clear why people do this in their 20's and 30's and not in their 50's.

We're also getting our tast of teenagers; Rose (the oldest of the three godchildren) is 13. I'm sorely tempted to have her encased in Lucite until she's 20, for her own (and everyone else's) protection.