March 15, 2010
by Terrance on Monday, 15th March, 2010The day begins later than planned – after the weekend’s power outages I accidentally set my clock to be 12 hours off. That means that the alarm, which was actually set for the correct time, wasn’t going to go off any time this morning. Nevertheless, a full round of morning practice was achieved. Ha.
The work day is extraordinarily busy. Nonstop action. Negotiations, education, looking at the short-term future.
I took the 3-year-old to a birthday party yesterday. He found the experience intimidating, and mostly kept to himself. The “party rooms” were busy, poorly-lit, and very noisy. I could see him getting overwhelmed, and even sleepy in response to the excess stimuli. He would not join the other kids and I had to keep him entertained for most of the party. I struggled with a variety of emotions until I came to see that it was a question of his needs versus my wants. Then it became very easy.
