tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post1227792462184724422..comments2024-03-08T13:52:22.224-07:00Comments on LAJOY FAMILY: The Waning DaysCindy LaJoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16486626867331586704noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post-48609304802463567412010-09-01T11:17:11.699-06:002010-09-01T11:17:11.699-06:00I don't know how you do it. You are always ab...I don't know how you do it. You are always able to put your thoughts and feelings so well into your posts, I don't know how you have time, you are a busy mom! I continue to read your journeys, the fun you have together as well as the more challenging times. I always come away feeling inspired to be a better parent.<br /><br />With regard to Nazi Germany, I've been reading this book called 'The Book Thief', it offers such different perspectives. You should read it and see if it might be appropriate for Matthew or you could read it together. The first part is a bit confusing to get through but once you get into the heart of the story, it's a hard one to put down.<br /><br />I hope the tail end of your trip is enjoyable!4texanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14813344872739830839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post-85158923761293013262010-08-31T05:49:32.544-06:002010-08-31T05:49:32.544-06:00I hear you on the dental work. We are fixing to go...I hear you on the dental work. We are fixing to go to the orthodontist yet again for a broken bracket. Poor Michael had big gaps in his mouth from rotten teeth pulled in Kazakhstan without anesthetic. Yikes.Deehttp://deescribbler.typepad.com/my_weblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post-81475383286398717692010-08-30T08:42:17.308-06:002010-08-30T08:42:17.308-06:00May peace be with you as you complete this visit t...May peace be with you as you complete this visit to wonders without and within. What memories each of you will bring home. Perhaps it is well that winter is approaching. By the time autumn, another trip, another operation, a time of healing, a restarting of school are finished or ongoing, it will be nice to have snow and time to process this incredible, fantastic, off-the-scale year with all its highs, lows, openings, closings. <br /><br />Pick a New Year's Day for all of you--the traditional or one that memorializes some time that is meaningful for all of you. Plan a retreat or special quiet celebration. You all deserve it.<br /><br />Matthew, I continue to come back again and again to the WWII holocaust and others throughout history. I don't know what I would have done. I would like to think I would have joined the Resistance or had I been a Jew, could have believed what was coming. But then who wants to believe that people can be that evil. I resently read a novel that was excellent in showing the minds and hearts of various Germans during the war--those who knew and went along with the atrocities, those who blindly supported Hitler, those who hid their heads, those who knew, hated what was happening but did not respond, and so on. I can only hope I would have responded but... The buts come up whenever there is tragedy not just evil. How do we respond from afar, without necessary skills, with little money. What can we do after we have given what money we can, what skills we might possess, what love we can send? Is prayer the answer? Is prayer enough?<br /><br />Love,<br />LaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35990418.post-62938028134147774552010-08-30T05:31:00.854-06:002010-08-30T05:31:00.854-06:00Sounds like you are having a nice - and productive...Sounds like you are having a nice - and productive - time in So Cal. We are back with our daughter from Kaz and I'm catching up on blogs a bit. I hear you on the dental work as she is 16 mos - with a few molars just starting to come in and I see that one has a cavity already. I guess from just poor nutrition as the tooth isn't even all the way in yet. I don't know if I would have been brave enough to take an 11 year old to that museum after seeing the Holocaust museum in DC. I left sobbing as did everyone else in the place. A good lesson but a profound one especially for relatively sheltered American kids - though it sounds like Matthew is mature enough to handle it. Though perhaps we need to expose more kids to things like this and, at the least, relate it to their everyday lives (e.g. bullying, racial taunting) and hopefully to prevent events like this from ever happening again in this world.Kelly and Snehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694012810022647105noreply@blogger.com