April Events

Dear readers,

No, I did not forget to greet Sofia on her 1st birthday. I just did it on fb, not here. 🙂

April 4 was Sofia’s birthday. We had a little picnic for her. As I spelled out the dedication for her birthday cake at Red Ribbon, I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. The kind lady behind the counter seemed to understand and said she wanted to cry too. She handed me a tissue. Funnily, we mindlessly put a box of pizza on top of the cake as we were having our picnic, so all that drama was for naught as we ended up with this:

This should have read, Happy 1st Birthday Angel Sofia! We love and miss you so much!

Doesn’t it look like Sofia erased all the dramatic parts?

It was Sofia’s birthday but it was she who had a gift for us. Four round-trip tickets to the US c/o the credit card promo that was active during the time we were racking up her expenses. We thought it would be a good opportunity to visit my 80-year-old grandmother, who was not in good condition anymore. We were planning to leave the day after Sofia’s birthday, April 5, then have a quadruple birthday celebration that weekend for one of my aunts, Sofia, my Lola, and Yoachim.

It was not according to The Master Plan though. Lola’s condition deteriorated the week before our vacation and she passed away on April 2, three days before our arrival in the US. When I think about it, maybe that was a better plan than for Yoachim and Tyler to have been there when it happened. That was a real risk. The timing still worked out such that we were there, along with my parents and youngest brother, to pay our final respects.

While we were away, we had some scratches on our car fixed. When we got it back, the radio was on and playing Just The Way You Are. Sofia was welcoming us back home. 🙂