If I had a day that I could give to you
I’d give to you a day just like today. We began on the porch with Tin’s bottle, rocking and waving to neighbors who all called, “Good morning Tin!!!” The sun was shining, the birds were flying, the fish were jumping out of the bayou. My 8 year old neighbor came by and asked if she could play with Tin. I asked her why she wasn’t in school, she said she was not feeling well this morning but suddenly felt better. “Uh huh,” I said. Where is your brother? I asked her, “Fishing, she said. “Did he not feel well this morning either?” No response.
Then she joined me and Tin on our magic walk along the bayou and to City Park. We stood under the wind chimes and listen to the magic of the music. Then we walked around the big lake and made our way back home trying to keep Tin awake so that he could nap when he got home. I put him in his crib and he went magically to sleep.
Then T1 came home and T2 woke up and we went out to the front porch and sat outside and enjoyed the magnificent weather and watched the fishes jumping out of the water.
Later I took Tin visiting while T1 napped – we went to see Maria and then we went to the Maple Street bookstore and got a Mother Goose book, then we went to the clothing store and I cashed in my store credit I had been holding onto for so long. Tin fell asleep in the truck so I bought a Times Picayune and laid back in the front seat to read it with the sun warming my toes.
We made it home in time to sit on the porch for his 4:30 bottle and our friends and neighbors to stop and chat and comment on how happy Tin looks. Then T, T2 and our young neighbor all made another loop around the bayou with Loca in tow.
Tonight T and I are headed to Verdi Requiem at the Opera House. Appropriate in some huge way.