…the winds of life…..

…well it feels like a lifetime since last I wrote and the last couple of weeks are a bit of a blur….summertime came and so did summer school….it was exciting to teach an online course but was soon to discover that it was a new course so not all the bugs were worked out, or should I say, we were going to working out all the bugs in the system…the jury is still out on how I feel about it…for now the best part has definitely been working from home…

….shortly after our course began I found out because it may take a while until we can travel to pick Malio up, I needed to update my home study…and for those of you who know that horror of paperwork, you'll know when I say, I was really unhappy about it….but like many others, you pick yourself up and do what you have to do….

…just as I was in the midst of that, last Sunday, our cat Micio took a turn for the worst…he had been dealing with stage four renal failure since last April, had been doing well, and then a new medication did not agree with him and it set him back…we are heartbroken to have had to say good bye to him…we're still in shock, and so sad.  Matteo was terribly upset and is dealing with it in his own way, but it has been very hard, was hard to have to tell him,  was hard for him to say goodbye, and again we're still working on it….I'm very heartbroken as Micio had a special relationship with Matteo and was the more affectionate cat of the three…he was the one who I practiced holding a baby with before adopting Matteo…he would crawl into my arms at night and/or I'd find him sleeping on my chest in the morning…while I knew he wasn't going to have a long life and while I tried to nurse him daily with what he needed, it still came as a shock.  I guess like all deaths, even ones you know are on the horizon, you can never be ready for them.

…on a more positive side…my friend C. is in Vietnam at the moment and we have been communicating almost daily. She has officially adopted her son, her third child from Vietnam and they are moving forward in their relationship slowly but it is going well.  If they are able to and have time in the next few days as they await the Canadian passport, they may get a chance to go to Malio's orphanage and take some current photos!  I am praying that that might happen so that I can continue to breathe a new life in our family instead of mourning one who left.

…..I had planned a different kind of July, but the winds of life have moved us in directions not planned….we now also have two more weeks until Matteo finishes preschool forever and I had also planned to try to somehow mark this month in some special way, but we haven't…for now I'll have to trust that it will all work out as it is meant to be.

  The following photos are of Matteo and Micio after Micio got out of the hospital last April….Matteo kissing Micio and Micio lowering his head…taken a the month before Micio was diagnosed and then a photo taken last week of Matteo showing off his painting work at the preschool wall (some of it had washed off in the rain)…however he looks so grown up, so mature…my little baby is all ready for school and life has moved him forward too and he continues to grow, mature and become the person he is meant to be.

We were so glad to have you home from the hospital and would have wished for even more time together.

Goodbye Micio, we love you and we will miss you forever.
 

All grown up and ready for school!