Beautiful Eyes

When four-year-old Esther found out a little brother or sister was on its way, she made up her mind: his name is Thomas. Over the next few months, the baby was unnamed, unknown. But always in Esther’s mind he remained Thomas. She would talk about Thomas. She would look forward to meeting Thomas. She would…

“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”  Margaret Mitchell said it so much better than I ever could, and isn’t it true? On the morning of the long-anticipated fall family photo session, one child evidenced every ounce of stubbornness in those little bones while the other child grinned like nobody’s business….

At eleven days old, Thomas is already watching the world with a solemn delight and wise understanding behind perfectly beautiful eyes and a smug little grin.  He watches when his Daddy brings a bottle and helps him eat his supper.  He watches when Mommy picks out his outfits and putters around the exquisitely decorated nursery. …

She was a vision  of pink.  Savannah sat on the living room floor proudly showing off her perfectly situated pink headband, sitting daintily in her pink-and-white-striped shirt, and  shyly proud of the sparkles on  the hemline of her jeans.  She played with her pink dollhouse and sang along while the princesses-dressed-in-pink sang their Karaoke. Natalie…

When I sent out a plea to my facebook followers, I was begging for someone to spend an afternoon downtown Vancouver with me.  Be my friend? Please? Come hang out with me? Pweease? I had high hopes for the fun that we would have in the peak of Cherry Blossom beauty, of course, but never in my wildest…