Morning television Time
Angela took Willow to Zoo with her class. She mentioned the 4 children,
Willow, Clara, Johann and Milly who spent 5 days a week with each other were so
sweet and stuck together…often checking to be sure each of them were together.
Willow would ask: “Where’s my Johann!!?” Lyla wore her Auburn jersey on “Jersey
Day” at school. I have started college funds for the girls. I’m sure it won’t
be enough but it will be here before we know it! Since both of their parents
went to Auburn, maybe they will go there too? We had the usual fun days at the park after
school. One day Willow had “Dinosaur Day” at school. I had a hard time getting
her to wear a dinosaur shirt to school but she did wear a cute outfit that was
actually pajamas! On Mother’s Day Angela, Brock and the girls and Annie the dog
came to our house and brought lunch. It was a great visit! Willow has to use sunblock
at school due to her sensitivity to the sun. Willow and Lyla are so special in
their unique ways. Brock has commented one of them looks like she escaped from
a Kibbutz and the other from a Lutheran Day Care! Lyla always gets beautiful
sun tans. Different is good and sometimes decreases competition between
siblings. They are 4 years apart but will be 5 years apart in school due to
September and October birthdays. It’s hard to believe the school year is
ending. We went to the year-end music concert at the (relatively) new HMS Gym
and ate at the neighborhood La Paz afterwards. As I write this in August, a new
Piggly Wiggly is opening in walking distance from their house. And now there is
a gas station there too. Things are changing and trips “down the mountain” to
Publix won’t be necessary.
On the last day of school Lyla I met Angela and the girls at the park after
the annual school Beach Party and took Lyla home with me to spend the night.
Since there were no Saturday am events we watched TV until late and slept late
and played board games etc. Lyla was a sweet girl! Because I was going to
Mobile an Lyla was going to visit Nitza in Florida I would not see her for two
weeks! But I did get to have some time with sweet Willow while she was gone! At
the end of May I met my childhood friend Marilyn Evans at the new Equal Justice
Initiative Museum in Montgomery. She had painted the Maya Angelou quote “History,
despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need
not be lived again”. The museum was very moving and as I am writing this I am wearing
a t-shirt I bought there with another meaningful quote by the founder of the
museum, Bryan Stevenson: “Each of is more than the worse thing we’ve ever done.”
Something to remember for ourselves and others. The month of May ended while I
was in Montgomery and I headed to Mobile for a visit with my 98-year-old
Mother. It’s Summertime!
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