September 13, 2005
Through Tara's eyes
Did you ever wake up in a hotel and wonder where you were, at least for a few seconds, your eyes scan the room looking for anything familiar?
Now imagine a child waking up, six months after she left an orphanage and everything that she ever knew.
Every morning, little Tara Vika wakes up with a big stretch, a look around, and a smile. She slips off the bed and stumbles into my arms. There is no fear in her eyes. She asks where her dad is, she asks where her brother is, where the kitty cat is. Each time I tell her they are home. I suppose that is her way of getting her bearings.
I will be meeting with her pre-school teachers later today for our first conference. I know they will tell me that she is a happy kid. What else will they say?
Posted by Laura at September 13, 2005 01:42 PM
Posted to Tara's Story
Yes, for Tara, a place for everything and everything in its place. And how comforting for her to know that everything is the same, paradise has not moved an inch without her. All five senses are drinking it all in. Remember Dad making coffee in the morning? Remember Mom's hairspray? Those happy smells we remember when we were little can't be beaten. The sound our furnace made late at night? The taste of cherry cough syrup, the warmth of the bed blankets, the tall shadows made by the nightlight... When Tara first opens her eyes, she knows she's home. Her senses tell her that. How great it is that Tara's Mama is the first one she sees.
Great nostalgia hit, Karen. So true. Don't you wish we could go back to those days sometimes? All those possibilities that little Tara has ahead of her? All those great tastes, smells & experiences of childhood...?
And us with our dull, tedious, tension-filled adult lives....Oh. I guess that's just me! (hee.)
when calin would first wake up after he came home from romania, there was always the tiniest blip between asleep and awake when i would see the no where look in his eyes. then everything would slide into a smile. golden moments, indeed!
Posted by: chris at September 14, 2005 09:47 AM