Ain't In No Hurry Today

I think what I would like to do for the next few posts is to describe a few snippets of life when Sergey was here that were particularly memorable and that I want to remember forever. I don't have pictures of many of them, so this will be like a photo album for us to look back on one day and remember these moments.  I hope you will join me in these - I wish each and every one of you could have shared them with us, and now is your chance :-).  Joy shared truly is joy doubled - I believe that with every ounce of my being and it is the reason that I TRY to get excited when my boys want to show me a certain play in a game on TV or tell me about some amazing thing in Minecraft. I could literally care less, but I know how it feels to so badly want someone to share in your joy.  So come along with us :-).

When Sergey was here at Christmas, we played a lot of Zac Brown Band.  A lot.  Ok, perhaps almost exclusively.  We bought him a little MP3 player for Christmas and loaded it up with all of the music that Harry and Sam like to listen to, but we also put all of our ZBB on there.  I was curious whether or not he would listen to it, but then one night when he was asleep and still had his earbuds in, I went in to take them out and saw he was listening to ZBB.  I had a little dream in my heart that he would listen to ZBB when he was back in Ukraine and think of us and feel loved.  Not sure if that actually happened, but I like to imagine it did.  

This summer, the first time he and I were in the car by ourselves, he hit play on the stereo and cranked up the ZBB. The sun was out, windows were down, and he turned to me and said "Zac Brown" in his sweet Ukranian accent and gave me a big grin and a thumbs up.  We don't get tons of smiles and get even less words spoken out loud in English (or in any language at all actually :-), so my heart almost stopped.  I hope one day, when he can communicate it, he'll tell me that he listened to ZBB when he was in Ukraine and thought of us, and felt warm and fuzzy.  Well, I don't know if he'll ever use the phrase "warm and fuzzy," but you know what I mean :-).  And you had better believe that when he is here for good we will be taking the Dowda family of 6 to a ZBB concert. Hope all of you can join us.


Ain't in no hurry, I'd be a fool now to worry
About all those things I can't change.
And the time that I borrow can wait till tomorrow
Cause I ain't in no hurry today.  Zac Brown Band