Blitzen spends her Choice Time watching favorite, comforting mermaid scenes on repeat, inviting them to burrow into a grove in her consciousness. The mermaid movie d’jour is Aquamarine. The scene on repeat is (spoiler alert) the climax. Two human teenagers dive into the ocean to save a mermaid being pulled back to sea by her [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Music’
No Ordinary Girl
Posted in Blitzen, tagged Blitzen, mermaids, movies, Music on April 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
When I am a mermaid
Posted in Agency, Blitzen, Uncategorized, tagged Blitzen, Foster care, foster parenting, imaginative play, mermaids, Music on April 5, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I won’t be able to come visit you, Blitzen told me last night. Can’t we use a boat? I asked. I won’t really have a water taxi, she said. In stanza two of the mermaid song, there is mention of a mermaid water taxi. Well, what if I got a boat, drove out to the [...]
More mermaid stuff
Posted in Blitzen, Uncategorized, tagged adventure, Blitzen, Foster care, foster parenting, imaginative play, Music, parenting on April 4, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Blitzen to everyone she encounters (teachers, kids at school, me and Andrew several times a day, strangers on the street) ‘If you were a creature living under the deep, blue sea, would you be a shark, squid, or a mermaid?’ Hint, the correct answer is mermaid. Blitzen and our friend / music teacher, P, wrote [...]
More swimsuit stories
Posted in Blitzen, Uncategorized, tagged back-ups, Blitzen, Foster care, foster parenting, friends, imaginative play, Music, parenting, support, village on March 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Swimsuit mania continues. Yesterday, for the first time in more than a week, I arrived home to see Blitzen clad in traditional clothing – no swimsuit on under or over her street clothes. But she is still having a lot of fun with the now plural swimsuits. On Saturday, at the store she saw a red polka dotted [...]
100 guppies
Posted in Blitzen, Uncategorized, tagged Blitzen, Foster care, memory, Music, Rallies on February 17, 2012 | 6 Comments »
It has been a rough week at school for Blitzen. She missed ‘rally’ for the first time since she started there in November. Rally, from what I can tell, is a big, free-for-all, reward-for-good-behavior type thing on Thursday afternoons in the auditorium. There are snacks, music and dancing, sometimes a video and just crazy, wild fun. Blitzen LOVES rally. [...]
A Few Amazing Things About Blitzen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blitzen, Music on November 16, 2011 | 9 Comments »
This post is overly personal, but I can’t resist celebrating Blitzen. Here are a few of the things that dazzle me about her: 1) She sings. All the time. On the subway, walking down the street, in bed. She perches on our windowsill, opens the window and sings to strangers outside. They always smile. 2) [...]
Day Two
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blitzen, Music, Nana on November 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Wow. Spectacular, exhausting Day Two. It’s midnight and Carrie is still trying to pet Blitzen to sleep. No way to cover the day comprehensively in a single post. Luckily, there’s no rush — we’ll be here for a while. (Same reason Blitzen doesn’t have to go to the library, Chuck E. Cheese, every park in [...]
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