tell the world they're coming home

today my parents left for Vietnam. and they will be gone for 7 weeks. it will be a strange 7 weeks without them. for they will be missing Thanksgiving, Christmas and new years. our first without them for the holiday dinners. even more so is the fact it will be Chloe's first Thanksgiving/Christmas. so this holiday season of 2010 will have a gapping hole.

our grandmother, who lives in Vietnam, has been getting weaker and according one of our uncles he thought it was a wise for our parents to visit her sooner rather than later.

she is the only grandmother of any recollection for me. such is the consequence of being born in a nation of war, where we are children in the wind. a dandelion spreading its seeds.

she is my bà ngoại