oh lisa frank! take a seal, give it huge eyes and some purple embossing, and entrance girls everywhere. haven’t thought about that wonderful junk in a long time!

yeah, i’ve been using a mixture of cards and paper we having hanging about in random desk drawers. i burned through a stockpile of blank cards pretty quickly. one of dave’s co-workers has an adult autistic brother who lives with her. he’s really into exercise and eating healthy. whenever we make a big batch of veggie soup or turkey chili, we freeze the leftovers and dave gives them to his co-worker, because her brother LOVES it. he’s also really into taking nature photographs and has used an online printing source to make some into blank cards, which he gave us as a thank you for all the soup and chili. kinda a random way to come into some stationary, huh? well, they’re all gone. i’ve scribbled on all of them. now i’m interspersing a few blank asian-themed cards with just regular paper. well, i can’t wear a dress every day, now can i? sometimes you just have to roll regular-like. 

totally different update: finally talked with my mom about our whole experience, and told her she might be hearing about it from the g’parents. turns out she won’t be, because they aren’t really talking at the moment, and haven’t very much since she moved back to the carolinas. bummer, huh? i feel bad that she’s been put in the middle, but (and this does sound bad) i’m proud of her. not that she “picked” me or anything. it’s just, well… i think it’d hurt if she just pretended like it wasn’t happening. but how can you pretend your child doesn’t exist? the whole thing just makes me want to sigh.

so i guess i will. and maybe go get some more pretty paper or cards.

-m.