Laowai

There have been so many days when I have almost posted on my blog over the last couple months. I need to get over the fact that I called my blog Laowai (a chinese word that means foreigner) and then we didn’t move to China. Also, I’ve been struggling with what I really want to do with my blog.

I read a lot of other blogs mostly by crafty moms and I love them. They don’t post about particularly grand things, but they inspire me with photos of vintage fabrics, descriptions of craft projects, stories about their kids, links to recipes, etc, etc, etc. So I guess I should resolve to do at least one post a week to journal all the little things (like the sign below) or big things (like our baby on the way) that happen in my life this year. So enough standing in the shower thinking of all the great posts I can make and then never doing it – I resolve to just post. And hopefully in the end I’ll have a record that will remind me of this year. Hopefully I can look back through it like my photo albums and remember things that I had forgotten.

So here is a photo I took a while back – the sign was posted along the sidewak in front of our building. I thought it was sad and funny.

It reads: LOST BIRD!! “Pippy” – PLEASE HELP – Pippy is a Starling with a band on his right foot. He will attempt to approach people looking for food. He usually comes if you call him and hold out your forearm for him to land on.

I wonder if Pippy was ever found. Coincidentally, I spotted a dead bird on the sidewalk near this sign a few days after I took this photo. I decided after inspecting the bird that 1). it wasn’t Pippy and 2). I shouldn’t take it’s picture and post it even though It did cross my mind. That would be a bit to creepy huh?