Dimples

I must confess that TIS THE SEASON has me feeling a little overwhelmed.  A few months ago, Marcia and I hired a babysitter so that we could sit down at a cafe and think.  We wrote up our new values, because now that we are parents the values have shifted a little bit.  Our list was meant to become a kind of ten commandments for this new phase of our lives. 

As I review our list of ten, what I observe is that parenting has brought to us a need to state the obvious.  For example, value number one is: Sleep is crucial.  Before Baby Pearl, we never had to write that down, even though it was equally true. 

I am reminded of that chapter in One Hundred Years of Solitude in which the entire village experiences an "epidemic" of insomnia.  Due to the rampant lack of sleep, the people of the town start losing their grip on reality.  In order to preserve order, they begin labeling things, just in case their collective memory escapes them.  At first they simply label a window with the word WINDOW, and a door with the word DOOR.  As the insomnia progresses, they leave themselves notes with messages saying: GOD EXISTS.

Eventually someone figures it out.  The animal cookies that have become so popular in the village have caused this sleeplessness.  Chaos is replaced by order once again.

I wish a solution with such elegant straightforwardness were in the offing for us, but somehow I doubt it.  My answer, for the time being, involves dimples.  I look at our little girl's face, and somehow it is all worth it.  It really and truly is.

Comments

[Sara]

awww....that's so true!

and you should submit this entry to the next Carnival of the Rugrats - ! http://www.thezeroboss.com/archives/003610.html

-- Sara

[Suzanne]

Order is overrated. :)

Enjoy the flow.
It gets better and better!