Last night we took Constantin (Tin) to friends who live on Constantinople Street and visited with Turks who teach the Ottoman Empire. We named Tin, Constantin because it aligned with our sensibilities and culture – my grandparents from Constantinople and T’s Eastern European background – why does Constantinople keep coming up? When the I-Ching told me what to expect he said the person who will come into your life and change it is a Horse,…
Between now and the weekend is a million different things to do – work, parades, Superbowl – good grief, how does anyone get any rest around here?
I urge everyone to begin today wearing black and gold until the Saints win the Superbowl!
We went to friends’ house for dinner and had a lovely evening with a nice international crowd and a lovely spread put out by the hosts and in the end I left my purse behind. When we got home T offered to head back uptown and pick it up. Sometimes you don’t recognize help when it is right in front of you – I was having a decent day having snuck some time here and…
Friends who were over the other night for dinner said that they were going to start celebrating Ground Hog day by cooking ground something. Today Tatjana made kapuska, my favorite Turkish dish she makes which is ground meat, cabbage and onions with Turkish peppers – big YUM. But sadly, that old groundhog saw his shadow and predicted another six weeks of winter all while down here in New Orleans our little cold snap dissipated into…
The Saints are in the Superbowl this Sunday. They moved the Barkus parade to an earlier time because they know that all anyone is going to care about is that game. There are a lot of people who favor the Colts, say they have more experience, say they will win – I say who cares we’re going to the Superbowl for the first time and that who dat, who dat going to the Superbowl in…
As soon as the disaster was digested in Haiti, the news started flying through our wires about adopting a Haitian child. Then we heard from an organization that this time, the government was going to cool their heels and make sure there is no remaining family because in the past, during disasters, children have been exported with families left behind that could have taken them in. In the news today, 33 children were kidnapped by…
Saw Tin once today – at 1:00 when I ran down and he was just waking and just taking his bottle, and I was disrupting the process so I snuck some food and came back up to office – boo hoo!
Last night I tossed and turned – anxiety again – don’t know where it comes from – I dreamed that I had a Jeep and Tin had to ride in a car seat hooked to the back tire and so I wrapped him in a garbage bag so it wouldn’t rain on him. Toss and turn. Today, I started back to work and perhaps it was the leaving my one month of simply being a…
A Turkish friend was over the other day and introduced Tin to blowing raspberries – he loves it. Tonight he entertained our friends who had come by for dinner with full on raspberry blowing that rivaled anything on MTV and he was so tickled with his performance that his laughing was contagious. Tomorrow – I’m blowing raspberries as I step back into the working world and forfeit my walks in the morning with Tin and…