November 14th, 2011 → 6:40 am
“The thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to!” – Hamlet
My husband’s knee has been hurting him lately. This weekend when we went out to dinner he limped a bit on the walk to the restaurant. As it happens, I still haven’t fully recovered from my surgery back in April (!) so I limp sometimes too. The two of us making our crabbed walk to the restaurant from the back part of the dark parking lot was hilarious, frankly, and could have made anyone who saw us think it was still Halloween.
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November 12th, 2011 → 8:40 am
“…they say bairns are blessings.” – All’s Well That Ends Well
I’m late writing on the blog this morning because my baby’s been a real handful! He still hasn’t gotten used to the time change so he’s been going to bed early, waking up even earlier, and demanding to be hugged, kissed, and fed before 7am! Ah!
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November 4th, 2011 → 6:02 am
“In dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.” – The Tempest
I am so ready to go back to sleep right now…if I could only recapture that last dream I was having…
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October 27th, 2011 → 5:55 am
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.” – Hamlet
My 15 month old has begun getting up in the middle of the night again, after nearly a year of sleeping through the night. Both my husband and my pediatrician say that at this point we need to just let him cry himself out and go back to sleep. We shouldn’t go in and comfort him. It kills me though, listening to him wail at night and not going in to comfort him. I guess it’s in his best interest for me to be cruel now so he learns to sleep through the night later, but it’s awful. Anyone have any advice for how to steel oneself up to be cruel? I’m not good at it.
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October 19th, 2011 → 9:08 am
“My heart
Leaps to be gone into my mother’s bosom.” – Pericles
My mother-in-law is a very nice, very sweet woman. I love her, I really do. But she isn’t my mother, and being around her as much as I have been lately just makes me miss my anne (“mother” in Turkish) terribly. If only my mother could tickle my baby’s toes, if only my mother could pick him up and tell him a story, if only my mother could kiss him on the head and pray for his health. The 12th anniversary of my mother’s death is coming up in a few days, and it still hurts as much as ever…
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October 15th, 2011 → 9:17 am
“Love, and be silent.” – King Lear
The in-laws are still in town. Things are going well. At least as well as they’d be going with my own family. I think the approach to take with family in general is to love them, and keep your mouth shut about a lot of things. 😉
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October 9th, 2011 → 6:33 am
“You alone are you.” – Sonnet 84
I couldn’t decide this morning whether to add yet another encomium to the mountain of praise already out there on Steve Jobs, or, to write about my birthday which also happened this weekend. In the end, the above quote seemed to fit my sentiments about both. Steve Jobs was clearly a unique visionary, alone in his creativity and spark. And this weekend I was reminded again that I alone am myself; I alone am responsible for my foibles, I alone am responsible for my happiness, I alone am responsible for my life. Amen.
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September 19th, 2011 → 8:35 am
“I could endure anything before but a cat.” – All’s Well that Ends Well
Apparently Shakespeare was not at all fond of cats, which is too bad, because I love them. I guess this marks my second disagreement now with the great bard (though, like the first disagreement on economics, I can certainly come up with a twist that brings us closer together: think feral cats of the 16th century). Since my husband and baby have been away all week, my cat NoMe and I have been comforting each other and cuddling at all hours of the day, in all rooms of the house. We’re thick as thieves right now…
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September 15th, 2011 → 7:23 am
“This must my comfort be,
That sun that warms you here shall shine on me.” – Richard II
My husband took my baby and flew off to Nevada to visit his brother. So I’m home alone.
It’s scary quiet in here…
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September 9th, 2011 → 6:08 am
“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?” – Macbeth
Sometimes life just gets to me and I feel blue. I wish there were a way to minister to this heartache of the mind, except to simply wait and let time pass….
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