Princesses Diaries

今晩家に帰ると・・・

When I came back home this evening...

Mom Bearからのケアパッケージが届いていました

Foxyのダイスキなものばかり、

チョコバーに、ドライチェリー、ポップターツにスキットルズ

いつもご心配いただきありがとうございます、Mom Bear

 A care package from Mom Bear had arrived.

It contained lots of Foxy's favorites.

100 grand chocolate bars, bags of dried cherries, Pop Tarts,  and Skittles.

Thank you for your concern as always, Mom Bear.

ゴードンがいなくなってからようやく1週間が経ちました

私達にとっては長い長い一週間でした

It has been a week since Gordon's demise.

 Such a long, long week for us.

ジョナサンは眠って過ごす時間が多いようです

It seems that Johnathan spends quite a lot of time asleep.

たまにこんな風に考え込んでいます

ゴードンのことを考えているのかしら

He sometimes is thinking, like this.

He might be thinking of his brother, Gordon. 

アレックスはゴードンに代わって、いつもMommyの側にいます。

まるでゴードンのミニ版

7月1日で、Alexは5歳になりました

Alex stays with Mommy for Gordon.

He is like Mini-Gordon.

He became 5 years old on July 1st.

「マミー、早く、早くおいでよ！」

"Mommy, come on!"

「お風呂はどう、マミー？」

"How is the bath, Mommy?"

アシュリーは、家の中をうろうろ

まるで、ゴードンをさがしているかのよう

Ashley walks around the house...

as if she is looking for Gordon to play.

ゴードンの愛し爪とぎに寄りかかって、一息

She leans on the scratcher Gordon loved and takes a rest.

皆様から、たくさんの心あたたかいお言葉をいただいております

皆様、ありがとうございます

We have been receiving lots of warm words.

Thank you so much, everyone.

A week has past, and a day.

Reason demands that we go on, and yet...we are not so to be.

No explanation has come as to what hand took life from our gentle Prince, and it seems that none is to come. Not plague nor weakness, not harm nor fear.

He was simply beset in a way that not even greatness could resist.

Bravely faced; his heart never failed until all else had been reduced.

He was my champion, as he was for Princess Foxy, and always will be.

Sweet, poetic Gordon. Gentle and shy in life, but always capable.

Our love goes with him, long after the honour guard has borne him to the stage.

Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies: such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act V, Scene 2.

2011年6月26日午後、長男の　Luther Gordonが逝去しました

若すぎる死でした

Our first son, Luther Gordon, passed away afternoon on June 26, 2011.

He was too young to die.

Luther Gordonの思い出として、

As a memory of Luther Gordon

2004年のある夏の日、GordonはJohnathanと一緒にG家へやってきました

Gordon came to us with Johnathan in a hot day in the summer of 2004.

4色団子はGordonの一番のお気に入りのおもちゃでした

4-colored Dumplings was his most favorite toy.

ゴードンとジョナサンはいつでも一緒

Gordon and Johnathan had been together all the time, and will be.

「Mommy、お帰りなさい

僕、ずっと待ってたんだよ」

"Mommy,　welcome home!

 I have been waiting for you."

 「Mommy,　ここにいるの？」

"Mommy, are you here in this room?"

 「入ってもいい、Mommy?」

"Can I come in, Mommy?"

たまには空を見上げて考えてみたり

Sometimes he looked into the sky and thought about something.

末っ子のAlexの面倒もよくみてくれました

He took good care of our littlest son, Alex.

たまにかくれんぼしてみたり

 He played hide-an-seak sometimes.

おなかをなでなでしてもらう時間がダイスキでした。

He loved tum-tum time with mommy.

ゴードン、たくさんの思い出をありがとう

ダ～イスキだよ

Thank you so much for good memories, Gordon.

We love you so much, Gordon.

Luther Gordon GARRETT

Chocolate-Syrup Kitty

2004.06.20-2011.06.26