Why the name

"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."
Victor Hugo

I read this quote and felt like that bird. We move a lot. We moved to Kansas last July and will be moving again this summer. It's a difficult thing to do - to uproot and move - especially when kids are involved. B, at 5, really knows what is going on now. Some of his friends have moved since we have been here so we put a world map up in his room. It makes things more concrete to talk about family and friends in a different place being able to touch the spot they live in. That being said, Africa is the next room to him. The scale of earth is still unattainable to him. Thankfully G is still go with the flow and too young to really know. We are already talking about our next move. B likes to talk to his school friends about where they are all going. Some are staying but it seems the ones that go like to see others excited about going to. A preschool camaraderie of sorts.

I have a motto that I like to go by. If you don't laugh, you'll cry. So I try to laugh. Or in the case of a Bird on a Branch, sing.