Twas Brillig

Please welcome my dear friend CanadianFlake as today’s guest-blogger!

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Hey all, I am thrilled to be here today with a guest post for the

amazing and talented Brillig. I am grateful that brillig has

entrusted her readers in my care for one day. Of course, I

think she totally rocks…as I am sure all of you do too. I have

been a loyal “brillig-fan” since the first day I stumbled across

her blog (who could forget the SOS “chad” saga..lol)

I have been pondering the subject of this post for a few days.

I have been excited to be guest posting for the very first time

and wanted to sound intelligent, humorous or insightful (or

at least, I didn’t want to sound totally lame ..lol)

I guess I should start by introducing myself. My name is

Canadianflake and I have been blogging for just over a year

now. I have a gnome and 2 gremlins that I both love and

get frustrated with in equal measure. The gnome and I have

been together for 6 years. Like every good gnome, he can

drive me to insanity with the best of them but I love him so

very much with all that is in my heart. My gremlins are 16

and 13 and anyone that has ever had a teenage gremlin

KNOWS that this is never easy…but totally worth it!!

After relocating in 2006, I began working at a job that

is out of my home. Because I have no friends here and I

work alone, the material for my posts more often than

not comes from the antics and goings-on of the above

mentioned gnome and gremlins….and it is something that

happened this week that I wish to share with you all, as I

have shared with my regular readers.

I should first explain that both of my gremlins have a

learning disability. Both have really struggled in school

from the beginning and I have had to battle teachers and

principals on many occasion. This war that I have fought

is somewhat of a 2-sided coin. There have been many

tears shed and worries that neither of them would be able

to finish school and be able to make their own path in life.

The flip side of that coin is that I have grown to appreciate

every litte victory and taken hope in small things that others

might overlook as insignificant. It is one of these victories

I share with you today…

Earlier this week, gremlin #2 had to an assignment where he

(meaning WE) had to read a story and answer questions.

One of the questions asked him if he thought it would be

a good thing or a bad thing if everyone “was cut from the

same thread”. Right away, I knew that my answer would

have been to say it would be a bad thing…because we

all need to be individuals etc etc…

When I read the question, his answer was the following….

“It would be good if we were all woven from the same

thread because then we would all be equal both physically

and mentally. If everyone was equal there would be no

wars, no racism and no poor people”.

I was so proud of this answer I almost cried. I emailed

his teacher so she would know who impressed I was and

her response was the following…

“wow- what a breakthrough! I had tears in my eyes while

I read his response - that is fantastic! I am so proud of his

logic! If only our peacekeepers in the world could see his

viewpoint! ”

For a momma bear that has had to scratch and claw just

to get her gremlins to learn how to read and write (with VERY

little support from the school system), these words mean

more than any award!!

Thanks for having me brillig. Looking forward to reading

all the other guest posts over the next month!