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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Nice weekend -- it felt busy, but when I try to remember why I sort of draw a blank. I think that the tiredness of new babies is almost entirely related to the "circular tasks" of feeding, changing, dishes, laundry etc. So if you've wound yourself out working hard all day, you can hope to maintain the status quo for manageable chaos. Our chaos is manageable for us at least.
This weekend Galen scratched his name into our coffee table with the hind leg of a plastic moose. That's such a great line that I've almost forgotten how mad I was when it happened. I mean, on the one hand it's a table we found on the street (best street find I've ever ever seen; brand new, solid, strong, great size for playing trains on -- in short, the perfect table to have while raising two boys who will almost certainly destroy it) so it wasn't the end of the world for me. And he actually did a pretty great job of writing his name, especially given the tools at his disposal (I haven't heard of anyone using the hind leg of a moose before to further self-expression). HOWEVER, well, you know -- the TABLE?? Wouldn't marking up the phone book be sufficient? Apparently not. Looking at the table, I felt that I had at least paid one karmic debt to my mother for some of the havoc I had wreaked on her furniture. To his credit, Galen figured out in about .7 seconds that what he did was not exactly deserving of praise. And Javier drove the point home by confiscating both plastic mooses and giving Galen a significant time-out. Galen was so embarassed that he came up with three methods of covering up the scratches, the best being a "tablecloth" made out of the Bob the Builder blanket that grandma had made for him. Later he asked his papa, "If only one of the mooses did it, then why did you take both?" Papa, who appreciated the logic of the question, answered, "I didn't know which one did it, so I had to take both."
Javier is still on the job search. As you know, he was laid off from his job the week that the baby was due, then hired back by the same company as a consultant. Well, as things happen, although he's been sending out resumes to everyone he can, he hasn't heard anything for months. Then, in one day, he not only gets an offer of re-employment from Viewpoint, but gets two calls from separate recruiters in one day. What are the chances, right? Apparently not zero...
posted by Dorothy 10:18 AM
