Here and There

As I prepare for my upcoming trip to Ethiopia, my mind often creates this sort of "here and there" contrast. For example, today after I picked Brynly up from daycare, we stopped by the dance studio. Brynly loves it there. She loves the teachers (who are also good friends). She loves to watch the older kids dance and tries to mimic them. She loves the music... She just loves it. She will grow up dancing, wearing sparkly costumes, performing, etc. Then I think of my older daughter still living in an orphanage in Ethiopia. My last update said she liked to teach little songs and dances to the other kids at the orphanage. When she gets here and is one of these dancers here in the sparkly costumes...Will it be hard for her to mesh those two things in her mind? Her new life of tap shoes and sequins with her old life of absolutely nothing. Will she find the common denominator? I hope so. Then, I take it a step further and think of the orphans in Ethiopia that will never be adopted for whatever reason. They will never know dance recitals and baseball games and family vacations... They are not different from kids here. They would love those things.

I don't know. I don't really have a point, I guess. It is just something I think about.