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At A Loss For Words

Posted by Monica Edwards Categories: Family, Personal

DadRecently I posted about my wonderful in-laws and today I am so deeply saddened to say that my father-in-law, George Budabin, passed away on Tuesday the 19th. We were all still on a trip to Puerto Rico to visit my father who we have not seen in years when we go the news that Andru’s Dad was hospitalized for pneumonia, and was being treated with antibiotics. Everyone felt that it was not life-threatening but that the complications from lung cancer would make recovering difficult, so Andru flew into N.Y. in time to see his father once more before he passed away.

It is a shock and a time of sadness for all of us, and I am at a loss for words right now so I will post in the near future about this wonderful man. Andru has written a beautiful post on his blog about the moments he shared with his father on the phone, at the airport, as his father was unconscious when he arrived at the hospital.

When I feel the pain of his passing too much to bear, I think of his broad grin, and bouncy gait, and how much he lived life and gave to so many, not in material ways, but in time. He always made the time for anyone, anywhere. I will miss him so much.

I am so saddened as I cannot be at the funeral or be there for Andru as it seems I am stuck in Puerto Rico due to the high cost of having to transfer airline tickets to fly into NY a few days earlier, and having both kids to make it a little more difficult. It seems due to being so close to the holidays, American Airlines will charge over a thousand dollars each to transfer our tickets to a different day. So in order for it to work, we would have to all purchase new tickets from San Juan to NY, then from NY back to Seattle.

I hate to think that the cost would affect us being there with Andru, but in reality it does. The only comfort I have is knowing that his family, and Andru understands, and I know that Dad would also.

My prayers and thoughts are with everyone in NY and I know that God will one day bring our family back together again.


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Why My In-Laws Are Better Than The Average

Posted by Monica Edwards Categories: Family, Personal

green lakeIt has been a little over 3 months since I have felt any sense of motivation or desire to post on my blog. It is a sad and pitiful situation I am in. I love Washington but I think I have become one of the ever growing number of persons who has developed seasonal depression due to the lack of the sun shining on this part of the world for a few months out of the year. I long for summer, or at least spring when everything comes back to life. I thought that I loved the fall, but really I just love the colors that accompany the crisp season. The season that I long for is summer, ah, summer ; 90 degree heat waves, the tinging of the ice cream man’s truck, ice cold tea, and playing at the beach every chance I get. The winter cannot end soon enough.

What brought me out of my slump and gave me an ounce of motivation was the fact that I wanted to share with everyone the feelings that I have for my in-laws. They came out for a visit at the end of October for a few days, too few in fact. We were a stop among many they were to make, to visit family and friends on the West Coast, as they make their home in the Bronx, NY.

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Missing My Boys on the East Coast

Posted by Monica Edwards Categories: Alijah, Family, Personal, Tommy

Alijah & Andru

Andru and Alijah left for New York Tuesday morning, and I feel like they have been gone an eternity already. This is the longest stretch of time that I will be away from Alijah since he was in the hospital for 11 weeks after he was born 2 1/2 years ago. I don’t know if I can take the withdrawal.

After the harrowing trip all alone with a two year old that has discovered the independence of his own two legs since the last time we flew, they finally made it to their destination after the most awful trip in recorded history. There were moments I imagined that their plane had gone down, or that they were sitting in the airport, disheveled and too tired to move. Andru emailed from the plane that the flight would be delayed for take-off for an hour because of inclement weather in N.Y. but that they could choose to get off the plane as long as they took all their belongings with them. Do these airline pilots not have kids? What are they thinking? After lugging an awkwardly huge carseat, a laptop bag, and a diaper bag, as well as trying to keep a hold of a 2 year old that just wants his freedom, the last thing a parent wants to do is try and maneuver all of that mess off  the plane just to turn around 15 minutes later (because it took 45 minutes just to get off the plane) to get back on the dang thing again. My poor boys, they had only the snacks I had packed for Alijah- a granola bar, raisins, grapes, and a pudding cup to keep sustained.

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