I cared for her. I fed her. I cleaned her little bottom. Okay, I paid people to clean her little bottom. But one heartbreaking day several weeks ago, I had to give her up for adoption. I’m talking, of course, about my baby, little Jade Mica. Here she is at Carmax, the adoption agency:
Some of you may have seen this very picture on my Facebook page. I was mourning my loss and had to tell someone. Someone who really really knew me and would understand. So I shared my feelings of loss with 500 of my closest friends.
I was inconsolable. Ask my husband. Little Jade Mica was a part of my life for nine years. But once I moved everything out of L.A. and into Sacramento, no longer living in two cities, there was no point in having two children any more.
Depression took me over, embraced me in its eternal grip, and handed me reams of Kleenex.
After about four or five weeks of this, my husband climbed up to my Tower of Despair and tentatively asked if we could stop fasting. At first I couldn’t believe his gall. How could he think of food at a time like this? But then my stomach growled and I too became famished. Come to think of it, I was starving!
Excitedly, we decided to try a new restaurant. Well, new to us, the restaurant has actually been around for nearly 100 years. After lunch, we walked into the warm sunshine rubbing our bellies feeling satisfied and content. My husband looked across the street and stopped short.
“What’s that?” he asked. “Is that little Jade Mica?”
My head jerked up to follow his pointing finger. We began to walk toward it’s sleeping form. As long as I had little Jade Mica, we had never seen another one in the same color. Could it be? It had to be…
It was! I pulled out my phone and took a picture:
My heart filled with joy. She looked healthy and happy. I was so glad to know she had already gone to a good home – you know how everyone only wants to adopt infants.
Carmax is about 20-25 miles from my house, in Roseville, which is not even in Sacramento. Sacramento is a pretty large city (don’t we have like over a million people or something?). When we saw it the other day after lunch, it was about 2-3 miles from our house. So maybe, if I wait long enough….
OMG, OMG, OMG it’s almost here! There’s a new video game coming to town from iWin.com on August 20. It’s called Coconut Queen and I’ll be credited as writer – woo hoo!
And no, I didn’t write the code, you silly, I created characters and story and words and voices.
You can check out the game’s website at www.coconutqueengame.com , see some screen shots, watch a little video of the game, and download wallpaper and ringtones. And then you can sit and wait a few days with the rest of us! I’ll be the one in the corner looking like I’m doing the pee-pee dance.
Did you know there’s a goat in Disneyland?
It’s amongst the 547,920 things you see in the It’s a Small World ride. Thanks to Mikki of the Here’s What Let’s Do blog for telling us about it.
I’d like to thank Collette at My Babcia’s Babushka for this little number, uh…whatever it is. A baseball holding open a book on a piano? I’m not sure exactly what it is, but I’m honored regardless.
I would also like to thank the Cincinnati Women Bloggers for teaching this HTML idiot how to stick one of these things on my blog for my many thousands of rabid fans who must have an NGIP badge of their own:
