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  May 09, 2007
Maybe you will always be just a little out of reach

AJ's drama took a turn for the benign yesterday when, unexpectedly, we found ourselves taking care of The Girl Next Door and her brother after school. Their mother had called at the last minute, frantic. Her father had had a stroke and could we help? Of course we could.

And so it happened that yesterday afternoon AJ found himself playing happily with TGND and her brother, laughing uproariously and having a marvelous time. And also, in talking with TGND, she confessed to being jealous of the way AJ liked to play with her brother and other boys. She has still been tormenting AJ, telling him this morning that she would be going to AJ's favorite playground with his friend M. and without AJ this afternoon after school (something I know is not true but is the result of AJ having to leave TGND's house this morning to go to that very same playground with another friend). But AJ is learning to roll with it and I am learning to be more sympathetic. Insecurity is tough to cope with at any age.

I am attempting to assuage my own insecurities today by working in the treehouse. It is shady and breezy here, a relief from the midday heat, and I have a view of all the flowers in the garden, of the squirrels navigating between the trees, and of the horses shuffling around the pasture beyond.. I can hear a woodpecker drumming on a nearby tree, the nevous rattling of the pasture gate, and the frogs chirping in the stream, where they have fled while workers drain the nearest pond in an attempt to rehabilitate its aging infrastructure. I've been so busy lately that I've hardly had time to stop and take it all in. This is a beautiful place.

And now for the challenge of the afternoon: to work and not to nap.

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