I am so happy to be a part of this and actually make an appearance as I had my doubts that I would ever get 9 minutes without the little darlings helping me out. Someone sent me an email that said I had been easter egg-ed and it has amused Evan and Caylyn for 2 days and over 55 replays. I would love to say that was an "egg-zaggeration" but it isn't. It has a little dancing chicken at the end who is yodeling a polka so you can imagine my joy by the 3rd listen....I am including this photo of Caylyn as one of the nurses in the hospital shot a ton of professional grade photos and put together a dvd of a day in the life of Cay at the hospital...I cry each time I watch it as it truly captures her many dimensions and it also hit me just what we go through, especially Caylyn. I will upload one of Evan as well as his birthday is saturday and you cannot imagine how big he has gotten!! He is just so darn TALL all his pants look like highwaters. (as we say in the sunny south...bless his heart!) Caylyn's hair is growing in again and Evans is growing out from my last little trim I assaulted him with. Tully's is growing long and wavy so he can donate to locks of love if he gets past the aggravation stage (if my hair ever looked like that i would just be grateful!!) We attended a marriage retreat in Gatlinburg last weekend and it was a surprise for Tully for his birthday, and me as well as the church gave us a "scholarship" to go...pretty much a full ride! We stayed in Glenstone lodge and no kids (that were ours) were allowed. It was a truly awesome weekend and we would do that again in a second! The speakers were really inspiring as well and the words of wisdom were short and very memorable as well as applicable. Overall, we like each other again:)! Then a different group of girls at the church pitched in and gave me a house keeper...lets now sing amazing grace--coz she is awesome!!!! Hope all is well with you both and congrats on the school advancements Elizabeth! Tully is working around the corner from here for a woman I met at the marriott during the SHS High school reunion planning. He should be busy for about a month or so. We then head to Hilton Head the 22-29th of April with Hilton Head Heroes as our sponsors and we are truly looking forward to that! I wish I could take a babysitter with us though! Well I am going to go read for 5 minutes before I fall out--the kids have really been on a mission lately and I called Tonja yesterday crying that they had declared war on me...they stomped two pounds of grapes into the hardwood floors of Caylyn's bedroom and I not only had no more grapes...I still had no wine!! Only one HUGE sticky mess...I was busy elsewhere trying to plunge out the vaccuum--I did a head count of the animals and all are present and accounted for so I never did figure out what was stuck in there...I heard that a mother's salary was figured out and came to $50.00 per hour ...24/7/365. seems kinda cheap to me...and finally, just have a weird question here..can you get very many 'western' grocery staples in India? I notice we have little asian and mexican groceries around and I got curious of India had little american groceries hidden about. Not much of a question in the overall scheme of things but just curious. Much love and good night, Cath
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What I would give for parmasean cheese. I would sell Brad for a large hunk of good made parmasean cheese.
There are a few American-style products, but they are few and far between. We have a bottle of Worcestershire sauce and it's treated like gold. I am looking forward to going grocery shopping when I come home.
Hey Cass,
Thanks for the amazing picture of Caylyn and the great post. I'd love to have a copy of that DVD of Caylyn.
Mom sends a couple of pictures now & then by email and it is very clear that Evan is going to be a tall one.
As far as groceries, some of the things I miss most (other than Parmasean cheese) is fresh-made balls of mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and just about all of the herbs you get in the US. But in the US, you can't get the fresh mangos, papaya, and other fruits that they have here - not fresh off the tree like here. When I leave here, I'll miss the dosa, samosas, butter chicken masala (mmmmmm), the fresh coconut chutney that Shyla makes, tomatoe chutney (fresh tomatoes, cilantro, salt and a little lime, I think). But it would be nice to have some of those fresh herbs - oh, and a grill, would be nice. Can you send those, too?
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