Category: Elia

When times are challenging, even when they are not anxiety producing or dire, there is a sense that life is a constant uphill battle. This is an attitude that is easy to fall into as much as it a choice of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Much of life is about choices, and the stress comes when you are not choosing and not in control. Choose to be content, and happiness will follow – note, I did not say choose to be happy, as more often than not, when there are challenges, and happiness is not achieved, you won’t be content. You have but to look at a four-year old’s life to see truth in how to live life. Continue reading “Elia November 2018”

Sometimes we don’t always know who the audience is for these blogs, though it is fairly certain that in the end it is for the kids to read about their childhood. What started out as a listing of Curie’s milestones as a baby has become more. Elia is working hard to carve out an identity for herself and this has good and bad consequences especially when she sees identity as something that someone else does not do rather than owning the things she wants to do.  So if Curie wants one thing, Elia will identify with another. Curie likes udon, so Elia wants ramen, and so on.  Lately, Curie has done the reverse and is exceptionally helpful when Elia is misbehaving. Continue reading “Elia October 2018”

Elia transitioned into K-Prep and missed her old teachers a lot. That translated in not wanting to go to school as much at first, however in recent weeks she has liked her new class and her new teachers more. She also asks Albert to pick her up early when he can as a treat for her, and Albert has come to lunch once to cheer her up. Continue reading “Elia September 2018”

Watching Elia discover the world around her has been amazing with times of revelation and times where she is becoming more self aware. She tries so hard to do what Curie does even though she knows she is smaller. At Curie’s Congressional Camp luau, she was so proud to make it up on stage with Curie do practice the hula. When it came time to take bows, she was beaming as she waved to us on the stage, she was with the camp kids and was one of them. Her joy was boundless and unabashed.  Continue reading “Elia August 2018”

During these months we have been in the middle of buying a house and moving, so we have not been doing a great job with this blog. July’s blog for Elia encompasses June 16th to July 15th, So we will recount the happenings for this time even though we are a month late.

Albert went to his company’s big conference at the end of June necessitating asking Erin’s parents to come help for the time he was away. With Erin’s parents, Elia was playing royal family with Curie and them, and her punishment for Pop-Pop was, “You must sleep in a bed with no pillows.” And while Albert was away Elia would tell him “Daddy, I very miss you,” and later, “Daddy, you said we had to promise to face call.” Albert notes that it is quite a thing to have your daughter miss you so much. On his return, Continue reading “Elia July 2018”