Today I received a thanksgiving card from my family. One of the sayings on the card is:
"when we count our many blessings, it isn't hard to see that what we value most in life are the treasures that are free..."
It's so true. My favourite Christmas gifts that I have received so far are the cards from my nephews and nieces and some dried maple leaves packed into a card. As I am writing this I am breathing in the scent of dried maple leaves and it brings back so many good memories. I think it may even be one of my favourite smells. I passed the leaves around to my students today so that they could smell them too.
Don't get me wrong, I am not homesick. Well I am, but not for Canada -- which is really odd. I am homesick for the kids at the orphanage. Somehow those kids have grown on me. I realized today that when I left the orphanage I left my heart behind. I love those kids so deeply. Two of the girls today were hugging me and calling me mom and inside I wished I was really their mom and that I could love them and care for them forever. Eikes. It's scary.
3 comments:
Be like Angelina and bring one home with you. :) Her first son was from a Cambodian orphanage.
I kid. Sort of. ;)
I am glad you finally got the card. We love you and miss you.
Oh yeah..You could always bring a few home for me too. Too bad foreign adoptions are so expensive.
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