I have to admit that the first few moments were..uncomfortable. It was... because of a long period of time that had passed and that when the decission was made to move away from the Maritimes to St Catherines. I took it personally as a direct "stab in the heart" to hurt me. Why you might ask? Well, I adopted a baby girl when she was 4 days old and I made a committment to be her mother for litterly.... for ever...and when she decided to go and live with her "birth mother' I felt that I was not longer wanted......worse needed.!
Time does "HEAL"...mostly because time allows for a re-newed way of seeing and thinking. The birth mother called several times that evening requesting to be involved in our time. It was viewed as a great interference and finally it was stated. I do not want HER here...I want my family...YOU..You are my family..MOM... It brought me to my knees.
We ordered Pizza, passed the little baby around the room, took a pile of pictures and then the question....Does she look like me? She is a perfect "Shade of Pink"...just like her mother. As you can see I said YES..!!!
We all found a little corner of the room to sleep. I slept on the fouton matress..actually it wasn't too bad..If it were not for the CATS...Oh dear, there were three giant felines that belong to the man of the house Adam. Then there is the traveller "Tigger" , he has even had plane rides. My daughter seems to think he has to be where-ever she is. These cats jumped all over the house all night. The three of us were scared, and hardly slept an hour. But, we got through it. The next day we decided to do a photo shoot. Babies first and a day trip to the Famous Falls.. ...so we punched in the Famous Falls and Gorge into "Alice," secured everyone in the M3 and off we set.
We might have known, first we couldn't figure out how to get out of St. Catherines. Alice took us straight to the door but could not get us out of the city, eventually we found the highway heading south. We followed "alice" to the tee and guess what? She directed us to some place way past the falls and to some Senoirs Home...WHAT? Because of the lack of sleep none of us found it particulary funny.. We then back tracked and evenually found what we were looking for. Couldn't see it very much though, the mist fog was so intense that the falls themselves were hidden. We did get a few nice photo opportunites and did see Horseshoe falls.
The rest of the day was somewhat somber and quiet, we simply enjoyed the baby and mom, talked about things from another time. My youngest and I walked to the mall and did a bit of shopping, groceries mostly.
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