Blast from the past
posted in Adoption News, OmegaDotter, Parenting |It’s spring break week. The dotter is at "camp" at her after-school care place, and they’re doing "Blast From The Past" as the theme this week. Monday was the ’40s, Tuesday the ’50s, etc. The kids are dressing up each day. The dotter won for best dress-up on Wednesday–she had a mini skirt, a top with paisleys and funky colors, and a headband over carefully parted straight hair.
Tomorrow is the final day. The ’80s. Big Hair is my immediate response. So we’ve purchased soft rollers and I plan to torture have tortured the child with them tonight, covered the result with a kerchief, sent her to bed, and plan to fill her hair with hair spray tomorrow.
From the back:
Looking winsome from the front:
Laughing:
Notice all the pink. I spared you the picture of the dotter in her kerchief in her pink room.
I don’t really know how to do Big Hair, but we have a curling iron for Big Bangs and lots of hair spray. I will display results tomorrow.
In the meantime…there’s talk of a Netherlands documentary about Chinese adoption, specifically that there are lots of folks these days who are having their kids kidnapped by government officials and dumped at orphanages. There are those who are appalled and those who think it’s old news. In the meantime, I sit here and realize that, while it was easier to think of someone reclaiming OmegaDotter when she was just a babe, she is firmly entrenched in my heart now and the thought of having someone tell me our adoption was null and void at this point would–yes–make me spend a lifetime and a fortune in court, fighting tooth and nail to keep her with us. That aside, I will write up some thoughts on the issue tomorrow.
