Sending another photo album to Lan

We are sending another photo album and some coloring books and colored pencils to Lan. All things that our "flat" which is the limitation our agency places on sending care packages to our children.

The photo album has the pictures from the first day of school and the baseball game, and also a couple more. I'll try to post them here.

I went out in the pouring rain on Monday night to drive to the Dollar Store at 8:35 PM in order to obtain Barbie labeling stickers, so, I could label our pictures with pink sparkly Barbie labels. I kept thinking, just my luck, I'll get into an accident and kill myself, and everyone will say, "what a shame, she went out in the rain, merely for Barbie stickers."

I'm actually kind of ambivalent about Barbie. I wasn't allowed to play with Barbie as a child, my parents felt she was detrimental to raising a daughter with a proper body image. I had some dolls called "Sunshine Family" instead. They lived in a VW Bus and had miniature Birkenstalks. No, I am not making that up. (See for yourself - you can still get them on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/4-SUNSHINE-FAMILY-DOLLS-FROM-MATTEL-INC_W0QQitemZ110025837283QQihZ001QQcategoryZ335QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

But, lately, I am so appalled by the Bratz dolls that I don't know if I find Barbie upsetting anymore. Is that nuts?

Work is crazy. What else is new, right? I'm evicting a 90 year old man and I have to say, I feel like a big pile of crap about it, and I sincerely hope that Legal Aid takes his case. And let me tell you, it's pretty sad when a lawyer tells you she actually hopes that Legal Aid shows up on the other side of something...

The pictures are me and Gabe reading "Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Gabe and Husband playing a game with magnets shaped like dinosaur parts while the big orange Tom cat watches, and Gabe loving on the small auxiliary cat.

LM