This is Melissa writing. The photos above are from our visit this weekend to DC. Tani and Max are playing in the Children's Garden at the National Botanical Gardens, where Grandpa Morris volunteers.
It's Monday, May 3, around 7PM. Tani fell asleep in the car on the way home from our errands. We went to REI to return some shoes and get some socks for me to go with my Vibram Five Fingers (the shoes that look like a glove-- I have been wearing them a lot this past few months and LOVE them. My feet have never felt better and I have never been so popular. So many people come up to me wanting to know about my shoes. I am hoping that it will become socially acceptable to wear these shoes in professional settings, anticipating that I will be returning to such settings in the coming year. I just signed on for a chaplaincy internship at Einstein Hospital from October through June next year--about 20 hours/week. OK, now this is becoming more about me than Tani. Maybe I'm getting ready to start my own blog-- something that Neysa urged me to do back when blogs started becoming popular. Anyways, since I'm talking about adult things, I'll mention that Neysa and I are planning to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary on June 2 by going away for the night. We'll see a play, Vaclav Havel's Leaving at the Wilma Theater in center city Philadelphia and then spend the night at a hotel, while Tani hangs out at home with Lois, one of the staff whom he loves from his preschool. In preparation for seeing this play, I just read the Cherry Orchard by Chekhov and we started King Lear, which I haven't read since high school. It has been great to be reading powerful literature. I also joined a clergywoman's book group that will meet for the first time next week, reading Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. It's 500 pages and I just started...Tani just woke up...I was so enjoying writing...more later!
...about 5 minutes later now. Tani drank some juice and fell back asleep while I was getting him more. It has been very hot this past 2 days. Neysa ran the 10 mile Broad Street Run yesterday morning in the heat.
Neysa doesn't know yet (I'm not sure she would have approved, but I figured that this wasn't any bigger decision than when she first purchased an iPod independent of me), but we now have 2 more creatures living in our home. Tani and I went to the pet store next to REI and picked out 2 goldfish, who are currently both named Fred. We were both very excited about getting some pets which he could take care of. Tani fell asleep on the way home, so I set them up in their bowl myself-- for now, just a fish bowl and 2 goldfish, needing to be fed every other day. I look forward to exploring life (and possibly death) in deeper ways with Tani as these fish become part of our lives. Our home feels different having more living creatures here. This level of pet feels like enough for now.
Yesterday afternoon, I went to a lecture at P'nai Or (2 blocks away) with Joel Hecker, who was one of my professors at RRC who is an expert in kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. He spoke about the holiness of eating, and how we connect with God, and even transform God, through our intentionality as we eat. I have been translating this for Tani as he eats. We have developed the custom of saying one thing for which we are grateful as we begin a meal, and today I spoke with him about how you connect with God through eating. God doesn't have a body like we do, so we share that experience with God. Each day, I feel blessed for the privilege of spending time with Tani and falling more in love with him and seeing new faces of God through him. Lately, he has been waking up in the morning and smiling such a huge, gorgeous smile at me.
Tani has been fully potty trained for about a month...which means...no more diapers AND now he can be dropped off at the IKEA babysitting. We both had a good time at IKEA-- Tani playing and Mommy shopping and contemplating a new kitchen (not likely to go with an IKEA kitchen, but fun to see the designs nevertheless).
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