MG, I haven't been around much in the last few days, and you've gotten a lot of good advice and sympathy already -- but I just want to note that you're a damned hero. Seriously.
The C situation is awful, and I wish to hell it could've worked out differently for everyone. But even in the end, the fact remains that you've been willing to go much farther than a lot of people would to make things right for all these kids, your own as well as others'. C isn't in a position to understand or appreciate it now, but at some point in the future, I hope she'll count you as one of the people who made a difference for her, if only for a while.
Oh, and fyi, this is a TERRIBLE thing to do.
This is so much worse: [link]
Oh, and fyi, this is a TERRIBLE thing to do.
This, OTOH, is fantastic: [link]
But the dog doesn't look quite as ... terrified? humiliated? waiting for the pointing and laughing to start?
billytea! the Washington Post travel section was all about trips, tours, etc., to see various kinds of wildlife. Tortoises on the beach in Mexico! Penguins! Bears!
This, OTOH, is fantastic: [link]
This, however, is the best picture ever taken in the history of mankind. (I think it's been posted here before....)
That outfit looks adorable. And those boots! But do you know if they'll show her feet in the pic? I ask only because I am still reeling from a childhood trauma in which the clever little applique of a painters' palette on my dress was
too low to show up in the picture
OH NOES!!1!
And I would hate for Em to go through that.
