San Diego, March 2009
This week a year ago we sat in San Diego with your feet up piled on cushions trying to get rid of that horrible swelling. A year later I sit in Caracas my feet up trying to get the blood circulating. It’s funny how things go round, eh chica?!
You were sick but there was still so much fun and peace. Days of border crossings, quorn, Gavin and Stacey, hanging at the IV hotel, our daily Venezuelan choccie treat, playing the game that it was totally normal to puke beetroot juice all over Wholefoods car park… hurray for Jayne’s burger!! And hurray to our final adventure … in this world at least. Do you remember counting all the countries you had been to - was it 34 in total? More places than years on the planet. You really are pretty damn cool! This week I eat our beetroot salad creation and baked beans on toast with abandon in your honor. I hope you don’t mind but I am leaving out the quorn.. !
I will always be in awe of you Mi but at that time even more so. You looked beautiful and there were still so many smiles. You promised me so many good things would be coming. You said with a big grin you would take care of it all. And here I am a year later full to the brim with a baby boy who is just about ready to come out and give the world a go himself… I knew you were good Mi but that good!! He is due to join us next weekend almost a year to the day that we hugged goodbyes in San Diego train station. I like the timing. A full circle of hellos and goodbyes… such sadness and such happiness, all going round and round.
So here is to my next adventure mi amor. I wish more than ever you could be here for more. I still can’t bear to think of the world without you in it so I don’t and I see you everywhere. Thank you for bringing such beauty into my life, stay close and keep spreading the joy for us all. Te quiero. XXXXXXXXX
You were sick but there was still so much fun and peace. Days of border crossings, quorn, Gavin and Stacey, hanging at the IV hotel, our daily Venezuelan choccie treat, playing the game that it was totally normal to puke beetroot juice all over Wholefoods car park… hurray for Jayne’s burger!! And hurray to our final adventure … in this world at least. Do you remember counting all the countries you had been to - was it 34 in total? More places than years on the planet. You really are pretty damn cool! This week I eat our beetroot salad creation and baked beans on toast with abandon in your honor. I hope you don’t mind but I am leaving out the quorn.. !
I will always be in awe of you Mi but at that time even more so. You looked beautiful and there were still so many smiles. You promised me so many good things would be coming. You said with a big grin you would take care of it all. And here I am a year later full to the brim with a baby boy who is just about ready to come out and give the world a go himself… I knew you were good Mi but that good!! He is due to join us next weekend almost a year to the day that we hugged goodbyes in San Diego train station. I like the timing. A full circle of hellos and goodbyes… such sadness and such happiness, all going round and round.
So here is to my next adventure mi amor. I wish more than ever you could be here for more. I still can’t bear to think of the world without you in it so I don’t and I see you everywhere. Thank you for bringing such beauty into my life, stay close and keep spreading the joy for us all. Te quiero. XXXXXXXXX
So lovely, Tiff. So lovely. Thanks for sharing these memories. And I can't wait to meet your soon-to-be little boy!
ReplyDeleteLove,
~Adam