A friend sent an email the other day and she said from now on I’d have the honor of being called Tin’s mom. I keep thinking about that as I look at this little boy who has me wrapped around his finger. My brother called and said that he was speaking to my sister in law and he told her, “I know the little boy’s life has changed but I wonder how Rachel will change…
The lesbian community in Bayou St. John is expanding as two babies are due in 2010 and Tin arrived on a wing and a prayer. Meanwhile, some friends dropped by to see Tin in his Santa outfit and stayed to watch his bath time. I thought it was just me who was entertained by him in the sink but it obviously holds wide appeal.
My mom’s birthday is coming up on December 28th – I was thinking about her as I was walking around the park this morning with Loca and admiring the winter landscape. The lagoon was so high you couldn’t see the cypress knees and the trees were somewhat denuded so you could see across to the other side. I always think about my mom the most in winter – her birthday, the holidays. Last night, we…
We decided in advance not to buy a lot of stuff for our baby. T even said absolutely no shower. But like it or not, when we both carried the 17 pound boy across the threshold of the LaLa behind him came 500 pounds of stuff – diapers, wipes, blankets, clothes, jackets, socks, washcloths, creams, vaseline, thermometer, aspirator, Baby Tylenol, Johnson’s baby everything, a portable crib till our hand me down comes, a changing table,…
Loca and I took a walk around the big lake this morning before Tin woke up. There was frost on the ground – good grief, the Saints lost and there is frost on the ground. Ack. But the birds – I’ve been wondering where the pelicans were and those little traitors have taken to the newly constructed big lake by the museum along with the seagulls, cormorants, geese, swans and ducks. The lake was chock…
I’m already worried that I’m not going to have enough of this time with Tin – I feel like I’m making up for 9 months and getting to know you and his little fingers and toes are just delicious and his butt – please, he has the best butt I’ve ever seen. But already a good looking girl came along and he was swept away – here is Eva making the moves on him –…
We were trying to figure out the whole bath thing. In Indianapolis, we’d get in the bathtub with him, but our tub here at the LaLa is too big and so Aunt Laurie suggested the sink. Worked like a charm: The one thing is that I want to remember when he was this tiny – because just in the almost two weeks we’ve been together he has changed and grown and I just want to…
On Friday, still trying to shake off ten days in Indianapolis in a dark and dry hotel suite, we woke to the bayou and to friends – lots of them, stopping by to meet Tin. And by afternoon we had decided, it being the last night of Hanukkah that we needed to celebrate so whoever passed our way we told them to come in and light the menorah with us and oh what a Happy…
On Wednesday, all of our clearances went through, and we went to sleep for two hours and woke at 2AM to start the long drive home. As much as I love a road trip, I am done with them for a while. We drove 13 hours – mostly with Tin sleeping but when he did wake up, we would stop at McDonald’s or one time in the woods of Mississippi and feed him and play…
We’ve cleared all the hurdles and now have to go home and face the leaking ceiling and perhaps toadstools a mile high from all the rains New Orleans has been going through – but can I say AMEN – we can’t wait to introduce Tin to the LaLa, the bayou, to the pelicans, to Loca, Wolfie and Bam Bam not to mention his numerous aunts and uncles and playmates that await him there.