Thursday, October 29, 2009

playfulness squeezed into a tiny package

I try to avoid jealousy in my life, but then this happens...
This is Natalie holding a hummingbird feeder with three hummingbirds on it. Look at how much they love her. I just bought a ticket to Costa Rica. Watch out hummingbirds! I'm coming to see you!

Flat Stanley has officially arrived at my house. He is now caught up on his sleep, adjusted to the time difference, and ready to see the sights of Birmingham. Ryan wrote me an adorable letter stating that I am "one of the lucky winners" who gets to have Flat Stanley over for a visit. I'm going to take that as a good omen and just go with the fact that I am one of the lucky winners. Period.

I am starting a new job in Extended Care next Monday morning. I have run the full course of emotions on this job situation. Anger, disappointment, hope, sadness, jealousy, frustration, elation, fear...you name it, I've felt it, often more vividly than I really wished to experience. We played our last normal, regulation game of sorry today. We're up to almost 200 regulation games at this point. It's been a good run. How many people can say that they've played sorry every day at lunch for the last couple of months? Only four, that's how many.

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