India In My Dreams

With sweet Guiathrie and precious, precious Rukmini

We are still camping on the Oregon Coast. This morning I woke up at 6am, which was better than the night before, when I was awake at 1am until 3:30. But I knew I did not want to stay awake, and I certainly did not want to awaken my sleeping children (too early for action) so I finished watching a movie about children going to school in India (5th attempt because I get so sleepy when I watch movies!),in preparation for doing Sonlight Level 5 in homeschool for some of my kids. Then I laid quietly until I went back to sleep for another hour.

During that hour, I had the privilege of going back to India "on my way" to somewhere else (?!!) and WITH MY GRANDMA! When awake, I have wished my Grans could see the Happy Home. Since she is no longer able bodied enough to go there with me in real life, I guess getting to see her be there, even in a dream, is an answer to a prayer.

Me with my Lil Gramsies, 2009

Doesn’t she look like she’d ooze love and grandmotherliness to the kids?

I loved seeing the look of surprise on each of the children’s faces when they saw I was back so soon. Some yelled "Tiffany Aka!", and some cried out "Mommy!". They were bright eyed with interest at seeing my grandmother.

I just stood there hugging and holding -- and I cried the entire time because I knew I could only stay one day. You know, since I was "on my way" somewhere else (?!!).

It was a sweet dream, although I was so overcome with emotion that I was struggling to remember, associate, and say their names. This is a real fear of mine since I would never want even one of them to think I don’t remember them.

Well, I am awake now, and so is the rest of this little trailer. So I best get moving along. But I’ve got India and some really precious kids on my mind today…