February 27th, 2010
The weekend. So happy it is here. ¬†I haven’t written in about a week because ¬†I haven’t felt I had anything worthwhile to say.
I have been catching up with an old friend of mine that I recently talked to. She lives in the UK, London, where I am originally from.
We first spoke in October of last year. It had been twenty years since we last spoke. Twenty whole years have gone by. We talked about our vacation times in the Caribbean when we where young, free and single girls. Yippee!!
She recently went back to Antigua and saw a few of the guys we used to hang out with. Some are doing well and others not so well. It’s so fun reminiscing. We really had a ball of a time before settling down and having kids.
She now has a 10 year old son and me a 3 year old son and 19 month year old daughter.
Apart from catching up with old friends my newer ones, one in particular, is moving back to the East Coast of the US from Portland, Oregon to New York. Having worked here he is going back home to be closer to his son and extended family. I will miss him terribly.
When I first moved to Oregon from London a group of New Yorker’s, who worked with my husband , had moved to Oregon at the same time. He was one of those people. That was 4 years ago. ¬†A big group of us used to go out and party. This was before the kids came when we used to have a nap before going out at 11 pm and coming home at 4am.
A picture was taken after a boozy, great night out at a club we used to go to almost every Friday night. For the first time, about 3 months ago, I saw a photograph perfectly depicting these times. The ¬†picture included about 15 members of our group of party people. Looking at this picture was amazing because every single member of those people who started out a free and single lovelies are either married, engaged, with child, about to have child, have children or completely left the Oregon altogether. It blows my mind. We all looked so damn happy. It’s ¬†great picture. It was a great time.
After talking with my friend in the UK it brought back so many great memories. I am so happy to have experienced them.
Here’s hoping for future great times and memories.
Tags: friends, memories, party, photogragh, vacation
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February 3rd, 2010
My 18 month old daughter has a few words now. Mostly these words have come from her big brother.
As soon as I collect Leo from daycare, around five o’ clock, I get both he and his sister, Roma, in the bath. I give them a wash and let them splash around and play for awhile. At this point I might make a quick dash to the kitchen to make sure the dinner isn’t burning and then dash back to give Roma her countdown time to getting out of the tub.
Lately, Roma has started to tell me that she hasn’t finished eating the bubbles or drinking the bath water from one of the plastic toys. I walk in to tell her it’s time to get out and she extends her arm out and shows me the palm of her hand shouting “Stop.” It is quite funny to see the expression on her face too. Can you believe that this little person is ordering me a grown adult out of the bathroom. This along with other quirky remarks have definitely come from her brother.
This morning at 6.55 am, Leo called out “daddy” from his and Roma’s shared room. He kept calling it out. This woke Adam up. I had woken about 10 minutes before hand. The next thing we heard was this tinier little voice mimicking what she had just heard, “daddy.” She said this over again and over again so we had the voice of Leo and then the echo to follow. Adam and I listened to this laughing.
The two of them have mini battles with struggles for toys mostly but tonight’s argument was over something else.
While eating dinner ¬†the feud began as to who would get the light blue cup or the dark blue cup. Leo wanted the light blue one. Roma wanted the light blue cup too. Actually, Roma had the light one first and when Leo said that was the one he wanted Roma held it tightly to her chest and screamed “mine” each and every time Leo complained for the cup. This episode went on for awhile.
All Adam and I wanted to do was laugh but we couldn’t, well not straight away. We had a little chuckle once they were watching TV. They were sat close together. The best of friends for the time being, anyway.
Tags: brother, friends, funny, kids, laugh, play, words
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