Curie November 2013. A little late in getting this out. Curie becomes a person – fully formed opinions: pie over cake, pumpkin pie over cherry pie, chocolate pie over pumpkin, chocolates over pie, vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream, and gummies over chocolate – most of the time.
In November, we had, as everyone did, Thanksgiving at home with turkey, and all the trimmings. We went to Erin’s Nana and Grampy’s family reunion in Massachusetts for the annual family reunion and Yankee swap. Albert once again emcee’d.
Erin dragged Albert and Curie kicking and screaming to a farm in Virginia, okay Albert, not Curie, which turned out to be very cool. Pumpkin destruction, over-sized plastic cows, corn mazes and the like, but they also had playgrounds in the shape of Noah’s ark, castles, John Deere tractors etc. And then… watching Curie feed the ducks, bunnies, and chickens something magical. We ended the day with pie, french silk chocolate over pumpkin you know.
After our trip to Strasburg to see the trains, Curie has talked about “our train,” and her “Thomas,” so we donned backpacks and took the train to Baltimore and from there took the light rail to the science museum there. After a quick trip we took the train back and with a very happy little girl had dinner with friends at home.
Life can throw you a lot of curves, and there will always be the weight of what the day may bring, but when you have a family to come home to, people who love you, you understand the cliche of family as the bedrock. And when life gets you down, and your daughter takes your face in her hands and looks at you with absolute seriousness and asks “are you sad?” You appreciate what love can do for you to mend whatever happened that day.