Happy Thanksgiving, or a Great Big Thanks for Nothing

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In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I want to thank the readers that have followed me and, even better, read my posts.  I started this site not necessarily to make “friends” or “followers.”  I think both are great, but they are not the primary reason why I began writing.  I began writing because I was bursting with a desire to write.  For about a year, I didn’t even tell anyone about my website.  I did have a desire to connect, but I was too shy to do any broadcasting.  Somehow a few people found me, none of whom I knew previously, and began following me.  That gave me a huge boost in confidence.  So to you readers, I say, thank you..

The post I am writing has been on my mind for the better part of a year.  It comes from the heart because above all, I believe in being genuine.

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Trick or Treating Old School Style

Blast from the past.
Blast from the past.

So Halloween has come and gone, but on this blog, it’s better to write about it later than never.  For the third year in a row, Polina and I went trick or treating in a nursing home.  It was a different nursing home than the previous two years, but I am grateful for the opportunity.  Start time was 2:30 in the afternoon.  I wasn’t sure P would make it as that is her nap time.  But I really wanted to go.

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Unfulfilled Summer Plans

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Well, summer is gone and this is what is left of it.  For us anyway.  A brand new bathing suit that I bought in June that Polina wore a total of… one time.  And here she is wearing it.

Chilling by the pool on a hot summer day in late August.
Chilling by the pool on a hot summer day in late August.

Can you see the red and white stripes peeking above her dress?  Try as I might to convince her  to show her bathing suit, Polina wouldn’t have it. Good girl.  I wouldn’t want anyone taking off my dress either.

So another 12 bucks or so down the drain this summer.  It’s no one’s fault but my own.  I obviously wasn’t organized enough to finagle nap time and pool time and getting up time and lunch and dinner time, which is all connected to sleep time and remodeling the house time.  Plus, to be honest, we had some scorching hot days this summer, which is REALLY unusual for the Pacific Northwest, but I guess this is becoming the “new normal.”  I realized standing by the patio door that it had gotten so unbearably hot that summer has become as bad as winter some days- you just don’t want to go out.

There is some hope Polina will fit into a size 4 (read age 4) swimsuit next summer, when she will technically still be 3, but I have my doubts.  Polina is tall for her age.

I wrote a blog earlier this summer about why I’m starting to dislike summer.  This summer was less stressful but still had its challenges.  We did go out just not to places that involved a bathing suit.  So unfulfilled summer plans, but it was the reality I created.

So, here’s to next summer.

 

Scene From the Day- Babbi Babbi Boo!

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I was cooking dinner this evening when I heard, “Babbi Babbi Boo!”  I looked outside to see Polina blowing dandelions and sprinkling the dandelion florets with her fingers.  “Babi Babi Boo!” she repeated, impervious to my existence.   I soon realized she meant “Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo.”  She was imitating the Fairy Godmother from her favorite story, Cinderella.  Oddly, the florets do look like the glimmer from Fairy Godmother’s wand.

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