April 19, 2008

Snow day

Started snowing today, and my daughter is almost one so she can a) see b) point c) smile. There were days when we thought she wouldn't a) arrive b) sleep c) live past her first few days. She was napping when it all happened, so B woke her up to show her. I tried to get home fast and drove by only one family out in the yard being unabashed. The other house with people outside was my house, and both were bundled up and looking lovely, perfect, painful, comforting. There are times that I am simply struck - knocked around, punched out - by the fact that I have a family - beautiful, colorful, interesting, priceless - my family but not mine at all.

Snow is amazing, I think of mana from heaven each time I see it, but have somehow gotten used to the rain.

April 19, 2008 04:47 PM