Cheerful! Cheerful!
And all that jazz. Seriously, though, you can really make some leaps of judgeyness in this life, can't you? I always forget exactly how long I've been a Christian, but it's long enough that I should know better by this point. My neighbour, who I know only as 'guy who parked his truck with the broken window in my parking spot two weeks ago without asking and hasn't moved it yet despite the shattered glass on his bumper and my two year old' (try that on your Christmas cards. Also, he owns a dog.) he...wait for it...HAS A WIFE! A very nice, pretty, quite charming wife who I met in the grocery store today who offered to babysit my infant if I ever needed a break, told me about their two children who are both studying at university and how much she misses her husband now that they have to live apart because of his new job in town. And she's lovely. With a nice smile. And he clearly was completely smitten with her and blushed as she talked. It was all very humbling.
And on a completely different note: mothering two children is hard. Hard. Hard. Harder than one, and harder than I thought, but not quite too hard, you know? Still somehow manageable, just...hard. Last night was awful, full of screaming from all three of us and general terribleness. Tonight was less so. As long as I'm holding Clara, she's happy, so that's the solution to that problem and the start of many others. Samuel just wants constant entertainment, which I have trouble providing now. We've resorted to nature dvds from the library more times than I care to remember. We've made our way through Growing Up Arctic and Growing Up Africa so far, and have just started one on baby bears in the wild. I tell myself it's ok because they're, um, sorta educational. Or at least have real footage on them. I don't know. It's survival mode over here.
And it isn't made any easier by the fact that David's schedule seems to be mid-afternoon to almost midnight every blessed shift. Why oh why does everyone else seem to get the day shifts? Why? David has been there longer than everyone but management at this point, AND he has a family at home with a newborn, and yet they still give him 2-11 shifts where he's training people and cleaning. It really gets to me.
And that leaves me...very sleep deprived.
2 comments:
We have watched hyndreds of hours of movies in the last... how old are the girls now? Five months. Since a month and a half before they were born.
Survival is key. Education can be talking about the movies.
Two is so, SO much harder thane one. Hugs, and it will get easier.
I laughed at video comment. I justify Elizabeth's videos on the grounds that they are in French :)
Other self-entertainment that's popular round here: scissors, trains, mars mud (kind of like play dough but less messy), marbles and beads.?
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