August 2, 2006
Leavin' on a jet plane
This morning we had to get up at 2:30. Kendall had to be in Baltimore by 5 to catch her 7 am flight to Puerto Rico. You know, the place that's calling for a hurricane this week? She's gone to spend the week with Stacy and her family. I feel like I just got her back from camp and now she's gone again. She cried a lot while we waited for the plane. I swear, I asked her a hundred times before this if she was sure she could fly alone. I mean, she's only ten...how old 'til I think she's ready to leave me? 40? 50? She said she's not sad about going, just sad about missing us. She arrived safely at 10:45 this morning and seemed completely fine when I talked to her. I fear one more little birdie flying away. I just want her to stay with me forever and stay ten.
After we drove all the way back down here to the house, I had to change into a dress and pantyhose for the umpteenmillionth time and go on yet another job interview. This was the 2nd interview for a job I really really really really really (really) wanted.
Didn't get it though. Welcome to hell.
Posted by krystal at 4:24 PM
October 5, 2005
what a difference a decade makes
Yesterday Kendallpops turned 10 years old. She had her birthday party Saturday at Funland so yesterday we just got pizza in her honor and we sang to her so she could blow out the candle in the pizza. She seemed pleased.
Kendall isn't especially thrilled about turning 10. She feels like she's being pushed to grow up because she's hit double digits. This isn't true, nobody has asked her to do anything past cleaning her room. If she's still having these concerns at 21, we might have issues to deal with.
I started wanting to halt Kendall's aging process years ago. She's always been the ideal daughter and in the past I worried that I might wake up one day to find that she's no longer the Kendall who still brings tears to my eyes when I look at her. It hasn't happened though. Everyday she wakes up and is the same precious girl. I still wish I could freeze her at this age but I'm not so worried that she'll wake up different one day. I'm mostly just selfish enough to want to enjoy this age for a bit longer.
It's been a realy taxing week for the baby of the family. She's had to step over and allow another little girl to invade her title of youngest, but she will always be our princess.
Posted by krystal at 10:25 AM | Comments (2)
January 10, 2005
AW RATS!
Yesterday we went to church and then to lunch with my folks. It wasn't so bad going to church. Really. I mean it. We got rocks.
After church we had lunch w/ my folks at TGIF's and then rode to Dan's parents house but they weren't home. So on the way home I suggested we stop and get a rat for the Snake because Dan said he was probably hungry.
We went to Maru and looked at all of the little animals there. They had rabbits(who were mating in front of god and everybody) and hamsters and lizards and birds and a mama rat who had just had like 5 little pink baby rats and a daddy rat. The sign on the cage said "not for feeders" so we thought mmkay and bought the daddy rat anyway.
In the car Kendall wanted to hold the box and she talked to the rat all the way home. We joked about how it should be named "dinner" and stuff. Kendall's a tough kid. She knew the rat was for the snake's meal and that he wasn't long for this world and she's ok with that. Remember, this is the kid who watched the fox who attacked her drown in the pool. She loves animals but nature is nature and that's how it goes. Or so I thought.
We got home and put the rat's box on top of the snake cage thinking he'd wake up hungry. Nope. Later in the evening, Dan put the snake and the rat in the tub so the snake could eat him. (yuck, my stomach turned just typing that). No dice. That snake wasn't hungry. The cat was thinking she'd like to have a bit of rat for dinner but we didn't buy the rat for her. So the rat went back into the box and the snake went back to his cage. We were cooking dinner and Kendall came in talking about the rat...and how it could be her pet and there could be another rat for the snake to eat. I swear, I'd said 10 times earlier in the day that we need NO MORE PETS. But she was so sincere...
Dan was looking at me like "no way, I know you're not falling for this" and I was thinking "well it could go into an aquarium...rats are smart, they're not really dirty...shit, what's one more thing to feed?" So I asked how much longer til the snake might want to eat the rat and Dan said it could be a few days. I knew there'd be no way in hell that my daughter would watch that rat for a few more days and not keep him as a pet. So now we have a pet rat, named Lucky.
Posted by krystal at 10:27 AM | Comments (7)