It is true that they don't take up much room. It's their stuff.
But The Tinks can't be criticized for this; it is simply human nature at one of its more challenging moments. (I again reference old George Carlin logic, when he said - paraphrasing - a house is just a place to keep your stuff - helps if you think of your roof as the lid on your big box of stuff.) Once we started looking around at the pile of crap that is OUR stuff, it is almost certain that Liam and Morgan will grow up thinking that the meaning of life is to collect more stuff than anyone else. As on-line friend AW wrote on Nat's blog recently, after she and her family had moved into a new abode, "Purge Purge Purge"!
And so, we purge. Yesterday, today, and again tomorrow, and probably right up to moments before the moving truck arrives.
For this last week, along with filling in on a morning show, still voicing my afternoon show, and continuing music direction for my station, I have been trying daily to get SOMEthing done to prepare for the coming onslaught of hypercritical people who'll be inspecting the space in which my wife and I have lived since the end of '98. It's not a process that either she or I are looking forward to (the viewing part), but necessary to get where we want to go. We've been excited about the new place since we signed, and now we can count the months we still have to wait on one hand.
So, my apologies for no new posts or new pictures of Liam and Morgan for this past week. Life's been a little busier than expected.
Every day brings another tender moment for me with one or both of the babies. Today, while Janne and Morgan continued to cuddle and sleep upstairs, I fed Liam his morning bottle downstairs, and we watched together the last 40 minutes or so of "Elf", with Will Farrell. If you haven't seen it, watch it. The closer to Christmas you watch it, be advised, the stronger the possibility that you'll have a few tears in your eyes at the climax of the "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" carol-singing scene. Just absolute joy in a renewed hope for mankind. Liam had no idea why daddy would have to wipe away a tear at such a happy scene. Regardless of that scene, my favourite line in the movie will always be from "Buddy" (Will Farrell's character), when he grabs the ringing phone in his father's office before his father can get to it, and delivers the salutation, "Buddy The Elf. What's your favourite colour?"
Here are the little people who make every day more colourful in our lives.
