Maia asks a question

A couple of days ago, Maia asked, "Did you have a Mommy and a Daddy?"

I think there was a parenthetical there--"(real)".

I said, "Yes," and I showed her a photo of my mother (who she knows) and also one of my father, who died many years ago.

The conversation nosed off into questions about who else was in the photo with my father.

Not too many days ago, she said she wanted a brother or a sister. "Our own," she said. Meaning--at least, I took it to mean--not adopted.

Our age troubles her a little, too. Children have been telling her that we are old, and she can see it herself. Kristina asked her if it made her feel bad that we are old, and she said, "Yes. Sometimes."

John, Thursday, April 24, 2008