The Magic Door
May 19, 2009, 2:05 pm
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I am always amazed at Marta’s endless creative ways of trying to cope with our ongoing issues of time and distance. In the past she has offered up many interesting solutions. In an earlier post I wrote about one in the “Put Hannah and the House on the big Plane”.
This Sunday we were talking on Skype and Marta wasn’t feeling well, she seems to be sick so often…She was whining and crying and I was trying to comfort her from the other side of the Earth.
Anna was busy jumping on Marta (fully body slams) and since she, Anna was in a happy mood and saying Mimi & Popa and laughing and smiling she, Anna, was drawing most of our attention.
The sharing of a Mimi’s heart is something that comes naturally..the same way you love your children …you are able to love your grandchildren.
Justin has always made jokes about my mothers love of 2 of her 9 grandchildren.. Ian & Krishtia, her first two. The others are like the extras in a big litter of puppies…. ouch!.
I am always trying to improve my parenting skills and I am determined to have a special relationship with every little one that I am blessed with and although Annabella and I have not been blessed with very much time together I am hoping that my Miminess will draw her in and that we too will have a special bond I see the beginning of it already.
Marta and I are as they say “cut from the same cloth”.
She is called the Mini Mimi here by most all of my family and friends.
She knows my heart I know hers… from the moment I first held her, she felt like an extension of me..
That said, not all of her or my traits are to be admired.
The other night mixed in with all the whining was a quiet comment that possibly went unnoticed by others.
I put my arms out to the camera and said “oh, Marta let me hug you and try to make you feel better “.
I said “what can I do to make you feel better”..and she replied “I wish there was a door that I could open and walk from my house into your house…a magic door I said, she nodded yes…
Oh me too I said, Marta that would be so wonderful.
The conversation and craziness continued for a few more minutes and then we said good night.
I wonder if anyone heard this ..other than Marta and I …
Marta I hope there is a special magic door ..and one day we will find it…
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She said MiMi!!!
May 19, 2009, 12:14 pm
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She said Mimi…
Yesterday Sunday was Mothers Day.
It was about 65 and sunny and it brought relief from the weeks of rain we have been having.
We, here, are not fans of long periods of rain. We like our days long warm and sunny, especially this year since it has seemed like a very, very long winter.
We had a wonderful brunch at my nieces home with most of our family including my 84 year old mother, Ann/Annabelle. Krishtia my niece, provided us with great food and endless views of the Harbor and of a few brave Sailboats out sailing on a very windy day.
Ian and Suzie made the one and half schlep from Jersey. I was so happy to have them there. They are pregnant and due mid August with a “boy baby” .
My sister has 4 children and my brother 3 . They all take their proximity for grated.
We had had a great day but for me there is always this missing piece.
I had wondered if Justin even remembered it was Mothers Day.
On our ride home my cell rang, it was Anna (my Annabella)…and she called (age 21 months) to say “Mimi”… I have been waiting for such a long time for her to say Mimi ..Each time I say Mimi to her she responds to me by saying “Popa”, ugh!
It had become a game to her, but yesterday she said it and she seemed to make the connection that it was me..her Mimi on the “Hello” as she calls the phone.
This was such a wonderful Mothers Day gift. Marta got on the phone and asked us to come to Estonia …if it were only so easy …and if it didn’t cost so much…we would be there on the next flight, but it’s a fortune and there are never any truly good deals
Why not a 99.00 flight..for Mimi’s & Popas, then we could see our grandaudies when we want.
It was a very nice day and Ian & Suzie presented us with a video of their wedding…I will need tea and a box of tissues to watch it..
When we got back to our home waiting for me on the front porch were beautiful yellow flowers (my favorite color) and a box of chocolates from my family so, so far away.
We called to say thank you and spoke to Justin, Anna was calling me Mimi over and over but the time difference makes it difficult …we are awake, they are asleep or often tired and cranky. We wished Epp a happy Mothers Day…Epp is a very good Mother..
Marta was watching a DVD and didn’t want to talk.. Sadly sometimes I think Marta has more of a bond with her babysitter now ..and I fear our specialness is just drifting away … time & distance wear on the life of a Mimi & her grandaudie.
….but today was a Mimi & Anna day …she just filled my day with happiness and gave me the best Mothers Day gift of all …she said Mimi!
Nothing to say….
May 7, 2009, 2:57 am
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I want to write but I have nothing to say
about my granddaudies who are so far away.
They wake up laugh and play every day,
but without being near them what is there ever to say..
She is reading they say, they who are so far away.
When she was here I joyfully read to her every day.
But once again she’s gone and now so very far away.
and so busy are they each and every day.
She’s putting new words together today they now say,
about my little one so far away.
New words learned today, and each and every day
…but I do not ever hear them, because I am so far away.
They cannot call and are too little to write.
do you think anyone there will ever see my plight.
….and wake up one spring morning and just say.
We need to call our Mimi who’s so far away…
Because how can we have a Mimi with nothing to say.
Mimi
May, 2009
Lonesome Tub Duckies
May 1, 2009, 12:58 pm
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After a week of playing in the Spa Tubbie with Marta & Anna the Duckies 
seem to be quite lost without their girls. There is no more fighting over “tub toys” or spashing and crying over soapy eyes (Marta). No more spa bubbles and hair washing no more pouring buckets of water, over big sisters head, (Anna).
It seems that our little Anna has become the “Tub Commander” The proverbial, “Queen of the tubby.” She is extremely brave and a bit of soap in the eyes does not seem to deter or upset her one bit …but big sister Marta is always whining about soap in her eyes and water on her head…She the child who I taught to swim last summer. The one who I cheered for as she learned to fearlessly jump off the side of the pool, the one who showed me at least 100 times (“watch me Mimi”) how she could swim under the water, and could.
Where did that little Guppie go?
Oh Miss Marta, I think the hand writing might be on the wall. Little Miss Annabella may prove to be a very strong little sister… and at the moment she is truly the reining ….
Queen of the Tubby”.
