I’m here, I’m here. Busy. Also there’s the pesky job, Facebook, PTO, and 2nd grade math homework. Back to the fun with kids:
I need to get this down before my kids stop doing it and it disappears from my memory. They have two topics they discuss in back of the white minivan: Cook Crabs and the Nose Mall.
You see, each time you leave the highway on an exit with a “2″ in it, you’re headed for the Nose Mall. If you’re lucky, you have Lily and Dawit in the car to help navigate such a perilous situation. It requires special clothing, food, and a decontamination after you escape. There are hours of details invented and remembered and built upon.
Then there are the Cook Crabs. They are creatures that live in our walls, and travel on various errands with us in my bags. They are also able to teleport via baby-changing stations in public restrooms. It’s unclear if they pose any danger, Lily and Dawit are usually gleeful that they are around, but sometimes try to stomp them.
I’ve taken to simply playing along–they both laugh like hyenas when I ask them about the Cook Crabs at school. Apparently Cook Crabs don’t go to school. Who knew?
You’re back, hooray!!!! I thought maybe the Cook Crabs had left you in the Nose Mall. So glad that is NOT the case!!!
oops, that was me before–I forgot to log out of EOR’s acct.
thanks again for your blog. i’m a loyal follower and enjoy your family and outlook a lot.
i was wondering, if you felt like sharing, how the eating issue has been going with dawit? has it changed? do you have any new insights?
we’re in the process of adopting from ethiopia and i imagine there’s a chance we could run into the same issue.
thanks again!
Hi Mary–I love that I have a loyal follower. Other than my mom, of course.
Yes, I will put together a post on the food stuff. It hasn’t stopped, but we’re managing.
Thanks so much, dawn!
i have read a lot of blogs over the last couple of months and there are only a few that stick in my head. yours is one of them. you are different from the others in your whole attitude, which is really refreshing.
i love your sense of humor and i think your blog is clever, interesting and compassionate.
how’s that for a follower??