Saturday, February 21, 2009

THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS


I just love it when we meet people and I try to figure out the reason for meeting that particular person. This happened to us a few weeks ago. My daughter and her hubby had left our house late one night to get the bus for home with the babies. They were waiting and waiting. There was one other girl at the bus stop who looked Chinese. Rebekah asked her if she was Chinese and found out she spoke English. They hit it off well and have been talking and visiting since then.


Tonight they invited her family over when we were there. It was so wonderful to see this girl, who by the way is Taiwanese not Chinese, hit if off with our daughter. We are always concerned that she will not feel like there is anyone else in the world who looks like her. Now that she is becoming aware of the fact that she looks different it was great to see her connect with someone who looks like her.


We took a great picture of Maleah sitting with her family looking much more like them than she does like us! Now that I have spent a couple of years being a minority myself I can certainly relate to the great feeling when I see another blue eyed person walking around. Kind of takes the heat off, if you know what I mean.


Next week we will be going to their house for sushi, I will make sure to take lots of pictures and include them.

1 comment:

Book Lover Lisa said...

I can't say that it is something I experience often, as the west is pretty full of pale blue-eyed people. But yesterday I took Elisabeth to a birthday party of her friend Alandra, and she and I were the only ones in the room who were not mexican (and they really are from mexico, they go back to visit often). It did feel a bit strange. I am not used at all to being the minority.