We were in the car this morning running errands, and Michael asked me what 3 wishes I wanted.
1. To have enough money to always pay my bills and to be able to afford to do fun things with my children.
2. To be skinny.
3. To have a bigger house.
I then asked him. Here are Michael’s wishes:
1. To be a billionaire [Alesia: "That’s too much, that’s greedy!]
2. To get a Wii [I pointed out if he’s a billionaire he can afford a lot of Wii’s.]
3. To get his hand back.
I asked Michael if he wished to be able to find his birth father and get to know him, and his response was “Not really.”
Alesia at first said she didn’t have any wishes, because life is pretty good. Then, after thinking a moment, she came up with this list:
1. To have no acne.
2. To get another dog, in addition to Coco.
3. To go out with a boy she knows on the school bus.
When we had gotten home, Alesia was in my room talking to me, and I asked her if one of her wishes would be to know what happened to her birth parents. She shrugged.
Alesia then opened up a tiny bit, and said her birthmom was “doing a lot of things” before Alesia was taken away. She found the birthmom with a strange man one day, and both were naked. Another time she saw a naked man in the apartment. There seemed to be a lot of nudity. [Remember, Alesia was 6 when she was put in the orphanage.]. Maybe that’s why Alesia is so modest now. There’s no evidence she was ever sexually abused, though, thank god.
My friend Melissa came over for dinner, with her two girls, who were adopted from the Ukraine and have been home just over a year. There were a lot of behavior issues at first, but now the girls are really sweet, and well behaved. Melissa brought a huge pot of borscht and it was delicious. My kids really enjoyed their visit. There are some photos below.
This first photo is Mike standing next to our bird feeder, and the corn plants that have sprung up! There's another plant which is beautiful but we don't know what it is, next to the corn. I need to do some research and figure it out.
