3 posts tagged “family”
Here are my dear friends Jeff, Rachel and Shae -- they (Jeff and Rachel) got married on New Year's Eve. Aren't they gorgeous?
Also, congratulations to the Larsons, who had their baby boy yesterday, and to my friend April, who just got engaged -- in Egypt!
The night before last I had a really vivid dream in which CP and I had two children and adopted two more. The two we already had were biological siblings who were First Nations -- a boy of about 5 and a girl of about 3, adopted from foster care. They looked very much alike, and were totally adorable, full of mischief, and devoted to each other. We went on a trip, and I guess it was to China, because we brought home two Chinese baby girls. They weren't twins -- they looked very different from each other. I think one of them had slightly curly hair. They were about a year old. Now, obviously you cannot just go to China and pick up some babies as if they were souvenirs, but in my the world of my dream, apparently you can, and we did. The rest of the dream consisted of the four kids all playing together in a living room. The older two thought the babies were the coolest things ever, and they all hung out and entertained each other happily while CP and I ate dinner and read our books and watched them play. Ha! Not very likely! Anyway, it was a really happy dream, and I wanted to record it because it was extremely vivid. In my last extremely vivid dream, Jeff and Rachel got engaged, which they did in real life about a week later.
(I can probably attribute the Chinese-baby aspect of the dream on reading all about American Family's long-awaited referral that finally arrived this week. Not sure where the bit with TWO babies came from, though. There's no chance of us adopting from China unless we fall into a big vat of money or something, unfortunately.)
This "blog-thing" (to quote a friend of mine) exists to keep family and
friends (the face-to-face kind and the kind in the computer) up to date
on some of the adventures of the B. family, BLB (that's me) and Captain
Poetry (that's my husband). We moved to Vancouver three and a
half weeks ago so I could start my graduate degree in creative
writing. Captain Poetry is taking some courses, too, and working
on MA applications for the 2007-2008 year. We live in East
Vancouver, in the Commercial Drive
area, and commute to campus, which takes about an hour each way on the
express bus. We're still very much settling in, but we've found
time to go out for Turkish, Ethiopian, Mexican, and Thai food, as well
as dim sum in Richmond with my dad and stepmom, bad reggae and beer
(called the Black Plague!) with Jeff, Rachel, and Shae, a bicycle trip
to Granville Island and Kitsilano along the shores of False Creek,
cinnamon buns from my sister's favorite spot, several $2.99 breakfasts
at Bon's and pizzas from Uncle Fatih's, dinner with newlywed Jonathan
and Sarah, a few pints at various campus pubs, a failed Air Care test,
a literary reading, two stints of volunteering for the literary
magazine my university publishes, a visit with Captain Poetry's parents
and sister, catching up on the last seasons of Lost and Veronica Mars,
signing up for a yoga class, and, of course, the obligatory university
student IKEA run (we were
well-behaved and only bought rag rugs and houseplants--somehow we
magically resisted the siren-call of the jumbo-sized bags of tea
lights, which is good, since we still have about ten zillion from every
other IKEA trip ever--but we did succumb to the $0.50 IKEA hot
dogs). Oh, and we both got work study jobs. Captain Poetry
is working in the library and I'm doing a newsletter and some publicity
work for my department. No wonder we're
wiped!
Here are some photos of the northern end of our neighborhood that I took on a walk to Value Village.
