Rehearsal Times Over: "D" is for Daughters

Rehearsal Times Over

I was on the phone with a friend the other day, following the same loop of conversation that our weekly chats do: touch on family, marital relationships, child rearing issues, general malaise and frustration with waking up every day in the same old rut. . .and she cut me off mid-sentence with, "This isn't a dress rehearsal you know. This is it." She got me to thinking and you know what? She's right. This is it. Lot's of parts of the picture may not be from "The Life I Am Supposed to be Living" or even many from "The Life I Imagined I would be Living" but this IS the Life I am Living! So. Rehearsal Times Over and we're already mid act!

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

"D" is for Daughters

Of which I have two. Doll-loving, doll-toting, dainty, delicate daughters with a flare for dress-ups, dancing and drama. Danger-loving, daring, Daddy's little girls who are difficult, determined, devious, dirt-lovin, and delightful. That render me dog-tired by the end of each day! Which I am today. So that is it for "D", I'm "done!"

2 comments:

Lily said...: I so look forward to reading your blog. I am glad Masa is okay. I didn't realize that was your hubbys name- whats it short for? Coincidently I married a Masa too. Other strange thing is I had no idea that your one daughters name is Reno until after Reo was born. I think you seldom, if ever mentioned your family members names until a few months ago. Interesting.
Anyways- my mother warned me when I misbehaved that I would end up with kids similar to myself and then I "would see"- She was right, oh goodness was she right. Makes me respect her more for what I made her put up with.
I do like the spunk your girls have!; August 10, 2007 at 10:13 PM
coarse gold girl said...: Lily,
You've caught me out! Read the bottom text on my blog "Why I Choose to Blog (Semi) Annonymously". . . names have been changed to protect the innocent!
You got a real Masa! I have always loved that name. Masa, Masahiro, Masahiko, Masa!

Laura (who really is, Laura); August 11, 2007 at 12:32 AM

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Why I Choose to Blog (semi) Anonymously

Because I write creative non-fiction prose. And because I always write from only one perspective: mine. So think of the poor helpless material--er, I mean my family. My eldest daughter is 9, my youngest 4. Neither one can read English, so they presently haven't got even the slightest chance of logging on and setting the record straight. You know, the youngest can't write a stinging retort to my description of her as a "crying worm", the eldest can't sneak up and after reading quickly over my shoulder say, "hey, Mom, that's kinda personal isn't it? Do you have to tell people everything? About me?"

Then there is my husband. Albeit I never worry for even a fraction of a second that he might log on and read my blog. Why? Well, he considers reading my writing torture, because I write in English. This as opposed to reading my writing in Japanese which he finds amusing because of the mistakes I make, like using the word "carrot" (ninjin) for "person"(ningen). Reading English is part of his job, not part of his down time. So unless my blog's URL ever ends up on an interdepartmental memo as prioritized reading. . .

However, I will use my own name, Laura. I'm the one behind the words, me, Laura. But my husband, here he is Masa because I love the sound of that particular Japanese man's name, but not because it is his. And my daughters are Reno (for the American city in which she was born) and Saki Because that is actually the name I wanted to name her. Except Americans pronounce sake (Japanese rice wine)--"saw-key"-- which is the same pronounciation as the Japanese girl's name "Saki". And I didn't want people thinking that I was naming my kids after alcoholic beverages, but I still really like the name.

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