Excuses, Excuses

I've been neglecting you.  I'm sorry.  I wish I had something interesting to say about where I've been and what I've been up to, but I don't.  I work, I take care of Eden, and my free time is spent clearing out the den as we turn it into a nursery.  Slowly but surely, I'm de-cluttering the house.  This is nice for organization, but makes for very dull blogging.  Let's see...well, I read Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty one afternoon, then got back to the tasks at hand.  Good times, right?

The Peach is thriving. And she and Norris continue to bond: I had to run into Portland on a work thing, suddenly,yesterday.  This meant getting her up, dressed, fed and myself showered and ready to go in a very short space of time, then driving into the city, going into an office, working there (with her in her stroller or on a blanket on the office floor), then we went to Starbucks, back into the 'burbs, to the bank, to Target -- and she melted down in the car on the way home.  (Do I blame her?  Not at all.  I probably would have melted down much earlier, had it been my crisis.)

Anyway, she was hysterical by the time I rushed her upstairs and started changing her.  She was wet and tired and hungry and didn't know what to do with herself.  She did the tomato-face-tongue-flapping screaming while I changed her, and then I heard something else. 

Norris was howling.  Baying-at-the-moon sort of howling.  In the 9 years he's been with us, he had only howled once before, a lonely howl at the window right after we moved to Oregon from Nevada - in 1999.  Just the one, and as much as we tried to get him to repeat it, he wouldn't.

But for the Peach, he howled over and over and over again, mournfully and repeatedly, until the diaper change was over and she calmed down.  Then he parked himself outside the baby gate leading to the den-cum-nursery and stood watch until the feeding session was over.

Very odd. 

Comments

[Blueszz]

Dear, I don't feel neglected. I enjoy every word you write here! I love the updates about your (family) live.
Hugs from overseas :-)

[Rozanne]

I blasted through Truth and Beauty, too, right after reading Autobiography of a Face.

Very interesting to read those two books side by side. Did you read Grealy's book?

Anyway, Ann Patchett is either a paragon of virtue as a friend or a glutton for punishment. Can't decide which.

[Shelley]

Blueszz: Thank you! I hope to read more of your updates soon, too! :)

Rozanne: I haven't read Autobiography of a Face yet. I came away from Truth and Beauty feeling disgusted with Grealy, but I think I ought to give it (her) more of a chance.