Life lesson | Lessons from my daughter

It’s the time again to introduce you to another family.

Today we meet Etta and her grandson Elijah.

1. Can you tell me about your family?

Our family consists of Michael (my husband), myself, three sons and Beth(our daughter-Elijah’s mom) 9 grandchildren. Beth, Elijah, and Jedidiah live with us.

2. Tell me about your loved one with cri du chat syndrome.

Elijah is 2yr. We noticed at 8 months old that he was still like an infant. He was not rolling over, showing no signs of sitting, nor anything an 8 month old should be doing. His brother Jedidiah was having therapy with babies can’t wait and we asked them about his behavior. We were sent for diagnostic genetic testing. We were told he was severe cri cu chat. Two weeks later, he rolled over, sat up, and crawled all in the same Week. He can walk but does not yet talk.

3. Tell me about doctor appointment, therapies or school.

He is now in occupational therapy and speech therapy. He is improving more and more daily!

Here he is!

4. What made him laugh on this picture?

He is a happy child. He was laughing because he got to play with Granpa,s drill.(no bit in it). 😊. Oh and he was outside. He loves outside.

5. Have you had the chance to meet other with cri du chat syndrome yet?

We hope we will soon. I think it would be fun.

Thank you Etta for taking time to share with me. I hope to meet you and your family one day.

The best pie in the world is my mother’s cornflakes pie.

I remember as a child in ballet, when we had bake sales, my mom would make a couple of pies and the organizers would buy them :). Her pies never made it to the sale table.

I remember our non-conventional Christmas dinner when all the relatives were peaking (sp?) in our office turned into a cold room just to see if mom made her pies. It took her 3 days to make enough pie for everybody but she did it.

I asked her for the recipe many years ago but mine didn’t taste right.

Over the years both my brothers and I moved out, met our spouses and have kids of our own.

Every time we visit mom and every time mom visits one of us, we ask for cornflakes pie 🙂

Mom is here for March break, spending time with her girls :).

So yesterday I asked her if she would make me pie 🙂 I bought everything she needed and voilà!

A perfect pie !

I posted the picture on Facebook and many relatives are missing their yearly dose of my mom’s cornflakes pie.

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She sold her house years ago and we no longer have those big family Christmas dinner now that we have them for us and our kids instead of for mom’s generation and their kids (us).

The one thing that hasn’t changed?

The next generation is asking mom for cornflakes pies.

I wonder what Emily will ask me in 30 years. I wonder what it is that I make her today that will trigger this kind of fondness…

What is yours?