Union and Reunion

From Iris on this beautiful Mother's Day morning. 

I definitely skored.

Note our inside joke referencing Anne of Green Gables.

We have had a mother and 2 daughters living with us for the past few weeks. 

They are refugees from war-torn Ukraine. 

I gave them sidewalk chalk last week and this is what they drew.

Yesterday was sweet: their father, who has been in detention on the border of Mexico for 19 days was reunited with his family.

Sybil has constant playmates. The language barrier is irrelevant.

I took them to the store, but they had been playing all day.

This is how I found them when I parked:

I got out my Russian nesting dolls this morning.

I realize that some of these might not be a welcome sight to our guests, 

although they were able to name all of the Russian dictators.