Thursday, December 28, 2006
days....
Busy few days with guests and activities galore. I have to say that I really enjoy the only-slightly-contained chaos of visiting friends and children. Of course, there are occasional downsides such as when a handmade push toy duck that I bought almost forty years ago and which has survived being played with by two half generations of children was snapped in two by a seriously roughhousing child. I kept murmuring to myself, "It's just a toy . . . material things don't really matter . . . It's just a toy . . . material things don't matter" . . . and that got me through the first moment without bursting into tears or yelling, but I am very sad. Today we went to a local children's museum which was fantastic fun (Morse code, stand-inside bubble, dinosaur table, walk-through Revolutionary village, etc., etc.). And I loved hosting a mid-afternoon get-together yesterday and dinner tonight. I don't know why I enjoy modified mayhem, but I do. And I hope everyone else is having a good week too.
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