20071226

Kids change everything

If anybody has been looking at these blogs, then you will notice over the past few months not a lot of action has occurred. That's due to the arrival of my new daughter, Sara. Take a look:


Pretty cute, huh? Yeah, I think so, and not just because she sprung from my loins. In any event, she has been keeping me and her mother pretty busy since she was born in September. Besides the usual chaos of our jobs, family, simply living in the Boston area (driving without killing someone around here is a full-time job, for more click here), and trying to maintain some semblance of a relationship with each other, all our "free" time is taken up with her.


I *will* get back to blogging...it is, however, distinctly possible that any future blogs will be much shorter than my previous ramblings. Yes, it is true that kids do change everything. I'm firmly convinced they teach us adults much if not more than we could ever teach them. I for one have learned (reluctantly) much over the past few weeks. I've learned about myself, my priorities, and the gravity of the decisions I contemplate. I need to put together many more variables when making choices, sometimes to my own chagrin. I also have become used to less sleep, although Sara is really, really good in that regard. Much better, I'm told, than other babies. I've learned to value my time alone due mainly to its extreme scarcity. I've learned to use that  time to my advantage as much as possible and actually have gotten a lot done. Seems that, when you are acutely aware that you have little time, you waste much less of it and manage, somehow, to actually make things happen. Not sure I completely understand this phenomenon yet. Not sure I understand this kid thing yet. Perhaps I never will. Perhaps that's the way God intended it to be.


Happy Holidays and all the best for the New Year!

tom