I thought Tina Fey said the most fabulous thank you to her parents the other night “I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities. Well done, that is what all parents should do!”
Although I think the looks and abilities cut on herself is just a person being too hard on themselves! Seems to me she is quite talented (won an Emmy after all) and attractive (maybe not to the vogue standards but how many of us are?!)
I like to flip through the catalogues I get in the mail and mark pages then never order. I saw this item that disturbed me http://www.lakeside.com/details.asp?I=HTY&Ntt=hunter&N=36&Nao=0&R=852093012HTY4&product=Hunting-Playsets. Is the little boy in that picture Damien?
It doesn’t look like I can go to the funeral tomorrow so I am going to post one more story about Aunt Virginia, then spend the next 24 hours or so being “with” her and her family in mind and spirit.
Back in the day, as the story goes, she used to own a jewelry store and encountered burglers one day. I remember it as a little place where my mom took me to purchase my first pair of earrings (which were little white gold balls.) Anyway-i digress-a robber or two came in one day to the wrong place. My Aunt actually chased them away with a broom! I know she was strong in character so I don’t know whether this was staring fear right in the face or a panicked reaction. Either way, as I mentioned many posts back, the last funeral I attended the priest suggested something like: to take a piece of the person with you and always hold it in your heart. For Aunt Virginia-I’ll hold her strength of character.
My Aunt Virginia, my Pop-pop’s sister passed away Saturday morning. I missed seeing her at the family reunion and am feeling a little sad I didn’t get to see her one more time, I knew she was ill but didn’t knoe how serious it was. I guess I am all wrapped up in my kids at the moment. I was thinking about a time, probably some wedding or baby shower at my Mom-mom’s, I was sitting at the kitchen table with three of my great Aunts-Aunt Virginia being one of them. One of my Aunts said to me “Don’t you want to get married and have a shower?” I said something like not too soon, I’m having too much fun (I was in my early twenties.) Aunt Virginia laughed cheering me on-I think the other two Aunts were taken aback. She said to something to the effect of ”stay single as long as you like-the rest will fall into place.” In my opinion she was pretty cool and that was great advice. I am glad she is at peace now after her struggle but she will be missed. Leaves another hole in our family. I didn’t get to see a lot of her lately however I saw her frequently when I was little (I used to stay over her house with her granddaughter.) Despite this, I still feel that empty space in the world where she used to be.
The three major networks simultaneously held a brief fundraiser/awareness of cancer special Friday night. Stand Up To Cancer <=====check it out. I thought it was great to see the networks unite like that. However sad that cancer is so widespread that they felt they had to unite in such a way. I know treatment has come a very long way. The last three people I know that were diagnosed with cancer are standing strong and their future is looking extremely promising-here’s hoping for a cure in our lifetime!
My daughter started kindergarten last Tuesday. The first time for school for her. I was teary eyed as she got in line behind the other students. She never glanced back which gave me both a pang in my heart longing for her toddler days and a sense of pride that she adjusted so well to this new path in life. I find it hard to go from completely knowing everything that is going on in her little world to leaving her with people I scarcely know and not know what she is doing, even if it is only for three hours. Up until last Tuesday I had only left her with family and very close long time friends. I think this is more of an adjustment for me than it is for my daughter. I am happy to say she told her Mom-mom that she was “going back to school to have more fun.” Here’s hoping she feels that way straight through college!
Made me think of one of my favorite excerpts…
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
by Robert Fulghum from “All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten”
My wonderful son with the wild imagination (no idea where he gets that from) wants to be a walrus for Halloween. The only costume I could find was a mascot costume that was almost $1000-I just can not justify the cost there…we are currently in intense negotiations to choose another costume…
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