The Mim Code
Last night was a busy one! Dishes, bathing the twins, fixing Lill’s PC, entertaining visitors (Drew and Ren), then fixing Drew’s PC…so much for making a start on Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code!
Actually, I’m finding that I’m reading for pleasure again much faster than I anticipated. I must admit I thought with having a new baby and the twins becoming so active that the only reading I would be doing is journal articles and trade periodicals at work. Or that I’d be too tired to read at home anyway!
But truthfully, I miss immersing myself in the world of books, sometimes because I have a vivid and active imagination, and sometimes in my head I can be living in two or three worlds at a time generated from reading novels. And it’s got nothing to do with escapism, or feeling trapped by kids, or routine, or anything stupid like that. These are not worlds I’d rather be living in instead of the one I’m living in now. Let’s face it, it may be fun conversing with dragons or visiting strange worlds in your head, but REAL LIFE is an adventure all on its own, and it is as exciting or as good as you make it to be.
Why am I blogging lyrical here? Before I went to bed last night, I went to the room I call the Library, and was browsing through a section of books, and I got to thinking, wondering if the girls would read any of my books when they were older? If so, what would they think of me? Of my tastes? I know that sometime down the track they’ll read this blog, and if so I would like them to see a part of me, even if it’s just a glimpse, of what I’m like as a person, and not just as daddy.
Sarah, Jessica and Emma: your grandfather, my daddy, was so busy trying to be a good, hard working, stern, patriachial father that he really never made time just to be a daddy or the kind of man he really wanted to be. He waited until we were grown up and had kids of our own before we got to see the gentle, loving and fun man he can be today. I don’t want you to wait that long to find out who I am when I’m not being daddy. So hopefully by blogging about things not about Emma or the twins will give you an insight about me, your mother, our friends, and the times we live in.
Well, enough said.
ODD SPOT: Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Actually, I’m finding that I’m reading for pleasure again much faster than I anticipated. I must admit I thought with having a new baby and the twins becoming so active that the only reading I would be doing is journal articles and trade periodicals at work. Or that I’d be too tired to read at home anyway!
But truthfully, I miss immersing myself in the world of books, sometimes because I have a vivid and active imagination, and sometimes in my head I can be living in two or three worlds at a time generated from reading novels. And it’s got nothing to do with escapism, or feeling trapped by kids, or routine, or anything stupid like that. These are not worlds I’d rather be living in instead of the one I’m living in now. Let’s face it, it may be fun conversing with dragons or visiting strange worlds in your head, but REAL LIFE is an adventure all on its own, and it is as exciting or as good as you make it to be.
Why am I blogging lyrical here? Before I went to bed last night, I went to the room I call the Library, and was browsing through a section of books, and I got to thinking, wondering if the girls would read any of my books when they were older? If so, what would they think of me? Of my tastes? I know that sometime down the track they’ll read this blog, and if so I would like them to see a part of me, even if it’s just a glimpse, of what I’m like as a person, and not just as daddy.
Sarah, Jessica and Emma: your grandfather, my daddy, was so busy trying to be a good, hard working, stern, patriachial father that he really never made time just to be a daddy or the kind of man he really wanted to be. He waited until we were grown up and had kids of our own before we got to see the gentle, loving and fun man he can be today. I don’t want you to wait that long to find out who I am when I’m not being daddy. So hopefully by blogging about things not about Emma or the twins will give you an insight about me, your mother, our friends, and the times we live in.
Well, enough said.
ODD SPOT: Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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