Tribute to John

This morning Emi (who has had the Beatles in her life all of her life) was asking Scott about going to see the Beatles sometime. This is because we had the Concert for Bangladesh playing while we cleaned house. Scott told her that two of the Beatles were dead and she started asking about how they died. He explained that George got sick and died and that John was shot. She asked who shot him, his name and she even wanted to see a picture of him (which Scott showed her in one of his Beatles books).

He thought that after he answered her questions, that would be it, but a few minutes later she started crying. I heard her howling from the kitchen and she was so upset. He filled me in on what transpired and I told him that even though John's been dead all of these years, she's JUST finding out. I completely understand her sadness & emotion.

She kept going over to his picture on the wall saying "John, you were my favorite Beatle" with tears streaming down her face. I went around her room with her and showed her how many things of John's she had, that he had originally doodled for his son (like her rug, lamp, book ends, rhino plush animal, etc) but she was upset for a while. I got her to draw a picture for John to get out her sadness. I know that kiddos are curious about death at this age, but I was surprised to see her so upset about someone she's never met, but then again, it is a Beatle! For the record, Paul is her 2nd fave.....

Where do I start with the updates?

Well, since my last post we survived the holidays, attempted to adopt a baby into our family in January, returned the baby to her birth mom in February, survived another birthday, survived my twenty year reunion .....yada yada yada

I guess you can say I've been in "survivor" mode for some time now....things are easing up a little, but now I've caught the bug to do some remodeling/decorating around the "new" place.... I hope to get back into the postings again!

7th Annual Lake Party

Yesterday we had our 7th annual lake party and it was so hot!

Beaver's Bend

We spent the weekend at Beaver's Bend with my parents, brothers and sisters and their kiddos. Was a fabulous relaxing weekend and I wish we were still there....

Me and my Brothers and Sisters

Bamboo

Emi with her Aunt DeeDee in Bamboo Stalks

Emi Caught a Fish

Grandkids

Winos

Tonight we hosted a Chilean wine tasting at our house and had about 40 people bring wine and snacks to the house. We hadn't been to a monthly wine tasting since before we moved so it was a nice change. The weather was nice enough to mill around outside in between wines, but because there were so many people present, it was easy to get sidetracked from Nicole's very educational presentation. We look forward to the next!