HAPPY EASTER!
Here’s a picture of my baby boy dyeing eggs this year. He did a great job!
Ah, it’s Easter Sunday. A time to relax, eat chocolate, hide some eggs for my 2 year old to find. Luckily, our church had Good Friday services so I actually got to sleep in until 8:45 this morning rather than getting up at 7 in a mad dash to get to practice. D was so cute looking for the eggs. He chewed up a gummi bear that he found in the first egg, and then gave it back to me once he saw the m&m’s in the 2nd egg. Go figure, he likes chocolate. Can’t imagine why?!
I’m a little sad today as I am on every Easter. My dad died the day before Easter, 1996. Ten years ago. He never got to see me graduate from college, or walk me down the aisle. He never got to see D or hold him, even once. It’s still so poignant to me. I miss him. His huge hands. His Irish wit and the matching temper. The way he pushed his glasses far down his nose and made silly faces at me.
I’m also sad because my sister has decided to shut me out of her life, or so it seems. I wrote her a letter last week because I am so concerned about her son. He’s been suspended over 10 times since coming to Michigan; he has ADHD and just tested out at an 80 IQ. Well, she has pretty much done everything possible to forget that he’s in her life. She’s rarely around and when she does communicate with him, she’s usually yelling or shaming him. So I wrote her a letter saying he would be better off living with someone who understood people with disabilities (my brother, who has a disability himself and is also a special education professor) and who could be consistent, patient, yet firm with her son. She hasn’t talked to me since, and we live right across the hall from each other. I fear that she will begin talking to people at church to turn them against me…it is just like her to do that. But I can’t worry about that, because it needed to be said. I will go on record that I tried to fight for him, and when he does something really bad-which he will if this situation doesn’t change-at least she can’t tell me no one told her.
That’s all for this Easter Sunday. We are going to Marc/Angells house for dinner, then to our friends the Seidels for another dinner afterwards. Lots of dinner today. Should be fun!
