The Red Nose

Dearest Skyler,

You came home last Friday sharing with Mama about how scary one of your teacher's red nose is to you. You seem to be genuinely afraid of the redness of her nose, Lil One as you keep coming back to it.

It finally came to a head when you declared that you were too afraid to go to school as you didn't want to see your teacher's red nose. We know that you were not trying to play truant as you were really really scared but we couldn't really figure out why a person's red nose would create such great fear in you. Poor Darling.

Mama called the school to ask your teacher about this and she was informed that the teacher in question suffered from skin irritation and her nose would become red under certain circumstances. Apparently, she'd always suffered from this so we wonder why it is that you're only commenting on this now.

Hmmm ... did Tai-po's passing away affect you resulting in this situation? We really don't know how much you've been affected by her passing away and our attempts to explain to you what death is about. We just hope that you'll not have any concerns that you can't share with us so that we can help you deal with them.

Anyway, we let you skip school today so that we can comfort you and give you time to build up your courage to go back to school to confront your teacher's red nose. We do pray that you get over it quickly. You can't keep on skipping school on account of that!

Papa and Mama love you lots!