hey--give me your umbrella!

at 9 pm alexa pipes up, "this is a reminder, tell your husband you love him." i do. i really do love him. i set that reminder one day when we were talking and joking around. but i'm not going to cancel it. i don't need it. we say a thousand i love yous every day. but i like to hear it every day at 9 o'clock, just because. because it makes me happy to think about him and how i love him. because it makes me smile and laugh to myself about our silliness together.

heh. mush.

yesterday it was raining hard in aleppo. m was out to meet his daughter and to do some things and he got soaked. he took these pics for me. note the red scarf, dad's jacket and the rusty umbrella. --all things i brought him in august in hopes to make his life a little easier in the winter.

"did anyone try to steal your umbrella?" i teased. "no in the picture you can see many people with umbrellas." he answers me. i love the way he says umbrella and would like to hear it many times. "ya but did anyone look at your umbrella and say hey give me that umbrella?" i ask again. he has been taking my questions seriously until this moment. "no--oh! laura! it is not so wild here as that," he laughed.

he is feeling so good after the vertigo that hit him in lebanon and stayed with him for months. the medication he got for it seems to work. i'm so glad to see him feeling good. did i mention that i love this guy? i better tell him.