Look at Birhan now!

20 yrs ago….

Birhan’s father…”I wrapped her in a shroud and prepared to bury her, but I didn’t have a shovel to dig a grave”, he said. A lot of people were dead, lying on the ground like leaves, and I didn’t want that for my daughter. Eventually some people helped dig a grave.
But as the farmer prepared to bury his daughter, he noticed a slight pulse. He badgered the nurses to look again, and intensive care restored her health.

And yes I do sit on the floor with my niece and nephew!  

I have ordered a few things online already. The ‘big’ gift for my husband may not arrive for up to 3 weeks. Guess I should have ordered it a while ago. The problem is there are hardly any places to hide big things in here, not even in the basement or they will stick out like a sore thumb. I need to find my Christmas cards too. I buy one box of new ones and the rest are usually found at half price sales. We will take a family photo on the new red sofa as soon as we get around to it. I use to send out ‘newsletters’, but I now send out ‘what’s new?’ paragraphs instead. Other people I know use to send those newsletters that sounded like ‘brag’ letters. I notice my old college friend hasn’t sent one for a few years. The last contact I had from her was when she tried to write a poem about her family and it wasn’t that good. I had done the same thing a year earlier, so she got the idea from me. Anyway, here’s a spark meme…
When was your childhood over? Do you agree with the concept of adolescence, or did you go from being a child to being an adult?
I know there is a distinction between a child and an adolescent. I’ve seen enough kids go from innocent children to moody teenagers. It’s those raging hormones!
I do believe deep inside us we keep the child we were hidden and bring her out once in a while, whether it’s sitting on the floor playing with my niece and nephew or drawing a silly picture. I have a collection of dolls from my childhood-yes Barbies and I love them. I even would love to design clothes for her one day. I think ‘turning into an adult’ requires responsibility to yourself and your family, especially if you have children.

BTW, the code they give you to cut and paste is completely messed up and I spent a bit correcting it so it would show up!

I have been extremely upset about the plane crash that took three lives and almost two others. I can’t imagine what the families are going through. Susan St. James is a cool lady. I always liked her tv shows ‘McMillian and Wife’ and ‘Kate and Allie’ from the 1980s. She is really down-to-earth even naming her two oldest kids Sunshine and Harmony. She lost her 14 yr old son Teddy by Dick Ebersol on Sunday. Now I can’t listen to the ‘Five for Fighting’ song….’15, there’s still time for you….you’ve only got 100 yrs to live…’ without thinking of this recent tragedy. St.James hasn’t been doing much lately, so I guess she left show business to raise her younger kids. This parallels with a plane crash that happened near here at the end of the summer. It was two brothers-one from England and their two boys. For some unknown reason they swooped down and into the airplane shed. Someone I know on one of my groups had the same thing happen to her former boss who had just retired and was looking forward to ‘the rest of his life’. Damn that sucks.