food, crochet, merriment
I do apologize for my absence here in this place. But you see, we’ve had some prepping to do.
In anticipation of a big, huge, monumental event.
We cleaned and organized and made sure to wear the appropriate colors.
We hung signs…
and did all we could to ready the “Cave.”
We added a mysterious scented mist to the air and even invited an ominous guest.
Then all that was left….was to wait.
The hardest part of all.
This made me cry.
The bald kid sent us a funny story the other day. Well, not funny “ha-ha” but funny odd, or funny dreadful–if you’re the mom in the story.
He told us that on one of his long train trips back and forth and up and down in this far away land, they stopped at a regular station and had to show their passports to the border patrol–as usual. Well, apparently my boy’s “Russian face” (whaat?!), Russian diction and American passport caused quite a hassle with the officials. They interrogated him forever because he seemed very suspicious somehow.
My boy. Suspicious. I must tell you here that this fellow is the very LEAST suspicious person on the face of the planet. I know, I’m his mom, but still…
ANYway, they brought the big dogs on the train to sniff through his whole travel compartment but of course, they found nothing. Once the dogs were finished the men tore through his personal luggage and made him explain every single article in it. He said the shake down and questions held up the whole train for about an hour and a half. All because of that…face. Who knew that my baby boy had a Russian face? Where’d he get that?
I don’t know about you, but this whole thing would have scared the wits out of me. But this guy? Oh, no. His response to the whole thing?
“It was great to have all the language practice. The whole process was sweet and I really enjoyed it!”
Who IS this guy.
Sheesh.
😕
“The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment.
The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”~Ezra Taft Benson
Do you see this adorable boy holding this ominous eagle? DO you?! Well, guess what? This cute thing is coming home pretty darn soon. The boy, that is…not the eagle. Which makes me very happy indeed. Because he has–in fact–been gone an incredibly long time.
And if you happen to see me walking down the street, let me just tell you a couple of things that you DO NOT get to say to me.
# 1– “Has it been two years ALREADY? It feels like a couple of months.” No, it has actually been more like 200 years.
#2– “Well THAT went by fast, didn’t it?” Blasphemy. No, it did not.
#3– “It can’t POSSIBLY be time for him to come home yet!” OHHH, YES it can!
So, you’ve been warned.
In fact, we are in the process of scrubbing the two years worth of dust off of some very important relics that will be very happy to have him back too.
I mean, besides his mother, of course.
Oh, hurry up calendar and give me my boy!