Busy

It doesn't seem like almost 10 days since I last wrote. We have been busy with the ballet recital, Lauren's preschool program, dentist appoints, Christmas shopping and also a trip to DC. On Sunday Luke and I left the girls with a friend and headed to DC for my Uncle's funeral. By the grace of God our flight went off without a hitch despite the monster snowstorm in DC the day before. We arrived to a very snowy DC with the Metro closed on outside tracks. We had been plannign on taking it to our hotel but managed to get a cab fairly easily despite all the snow. We checked into our hotel and hopped on the Metro (Rosslyn, which was across the street, albeit very snowy street) and went into Ballston to eat dinner at our favorite mexican restaurant in DC. It was kind of weird to feel the ghost of Susan past there. A 23 year old in a business suit with nothing but good things in her life so far.

The government was closed on Monday but, thank goodness, the funeral was held anyway. The cemetery was closed and so we just attended the service in the chapel outside the cemetery gates and the soldiers and riderless horse did their things right outside. A lot of people did not make it in and we were soe thankful we did

Wintersong

I love this song - it captures the bittersweetness of this season - without my beautiful boy.

November 2009 Pictures

Guess I forgot to do these!

Little Man

Nathan was a serious kid - not that he was not silly but that he really didn't appreciate it when others did silly things to interact with him just because he was a kid.  He never appreciated one of the oncologists, who, used to an average 2 year old, would say "Is there a tiger in your tummy?" when listening to Nathan's chest with the stethoscope.  Even at that age Nathan would give him a LOOK and say "no".

He also did not want to be forced to do silly things.  There is proof of this on our tree in the form of an ornament he made in preschool.  He was NOT pleased to be forced to put on reindeer ears and smile for the camera.  Check out his expression.  I LOVE this ornament because it is a little piece of his personality captured forever.