Showing posts with label Coming Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coming Home. Show all posts

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Inspiration, Courage, and Love

It's coming up so quickly.  Not quite quick enough, but enough that the end is in sight.  It hasn't been the greatest of times apart.  There have been some strenuous hurdles to jump over, struggles that would have been easier to get through if you were here...  Hailey is almost back to her old self; her and Baby Kitty are chasing eachother around the house, cuddling with one another, seeing who can get to the water bowl first after I fill it up.  She races me to the door, letting me know that she has to go out.  Later, we found out about the PCOS and the newest medications I have to be on, oh the joys of THOSE medications...  After months of being jerked around by the Child Development Center, finally came to the conclusion that it was not the place for me, and that we would rather work along the support system of our friends/family members in the immediate area, babysitting their children around our own schedule, then the restrictive and almost non-existant schedule of the CDC...  It hasn't been the easiest time, but we've made it through. 

Soon, you'll be home, walking into your house with all of your guests, your 2-month late birthday presents.  We will have a great photographer take some awesome pictures of us as you step out of the terminal and into my arms.  We will find a great field to get more photos done for future Christmas cards...  And, when you come home, you will have food you've longed for...  Not the prisonish food you've eaten for the past little while.  You'll have barbeque, vegetables, fruit, dessert...  Games...  Friends.  The house will be decorated, waiting upon your arrival.  You have been missed.  Not only by me, but by some furry, four-legged critters, who every time they hear your voice on the speaker-phone, their heads cock back-and-forth.   

Monday, October 5, 2009

Watching Airplanes

"Sitting out here on the hood of this truck, looking up at the caramel sunset sky.  Checking my watch doing the math in my head, counting back to when you said goodbye.  Those runway lights are getting brighter.  I'm sitting out here watching airplanes, take off, and fly!  Trying to figure out which one you might be on... Right now, I'm sitting out here and watching airplanes...  Wondering what you'd do if you looked out your window, and saw me running down the runway, just like I was crazy."                    Gary Allan's "Watching Airplanes"


Oh how things have changed in only a few short months...  The puppy you left at the end of July no longer is our cute little fluff butt, but now an almost full-grown, beautiful adult dog.  She has been learning rather quickly the commands I give her, her sits, downs, and stays...  That her dog bed is something to sleep on, not chew up.  She loves when I'm in the kitchen, whether it's baking or cooking, she really doesn't care, as long as whatever I'm working with accidently slips onto the kitchen tile...  She sticks pretty close, has to be RIGHT under foot, and wants to be petted consistantly!  She and Baby Kitty are getting along great, and even play with one another, chasing eachother around the couch...

I can't wait for our cuddle sessions on the couch...  Baby Kitty trying to sleep ON us while we're snuggled under the blanket, Hailey-Rose in all attempts to get as much attention as she possibly can.  Having a cat declare it's bedtime around 9:30PM, and demanding we head for bed right this once!  If we don't make it according to her watch, she finds a spot on the bed, and makes us have to work our way around HER.  And, her presents she brings us in bed...  Live cockroaches and brown recluses...ALIVE.