Aaaaaaah
I’m taking a break here at work and I have this calm feeling I’m not used to experiencing.
Sunny skies outside my office window will do that, and I am forever grateful I am the one with the view, even if it is of parked cars and a Del Taco.
Forty-eight hours and I’ll be on my way to Austin with Ashleigh. A couple days there and then three months without her. I’m not sure how I’ll manage, really. I’m aware I’ll miss her, but I am quite sure the overwhelming ability to get work done at home without explaining everything to Ash will be releaving in a sense.
Yet I’ll miss our conversations. She’s three and a half and I know some people would look negatively at our tv choices, but they instigate the most amazing dialogues with Ash. When we see ambulances or police officers and their vehicles she comments on how they’re helping people, protecting, taking care of sick or injured ones. She is fascinated with everything she watches and asks me questions and more questions and even more questions when I answer the other ones. It is frustrating and tiresome at times, but I am happy knowing she is constantly learning whether she likes to or not. Ash is not pacified with simple answers and actually seeks more complex ones. It’s as if she KNOWS there’s more to it all. And I like that, even when I just want her to be quite so I can think.
So, I suppose I will miss our daily conversations, but at least I know she’ll have them with John. She’s a lover of talking and I know she picked it up because John and I have a fascination with words ourselves. I imagine the day care she starts in next Monday will be very different for her and take some time to get used to, but much needed.
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Stacie said,
May 26, 2005 @ 3:07 pm
You know you will have your friends to chatter with about Ash. We’ll all miss her, but not nearly as much as you will.
Day care’s going to be interesting-to say the least.
Bree said,
May 26, 2005 @ 4:54 pm
I would imagine that it would have it’s benefits and it’s drawbacks…I know a lot of times I would love to just take a break for a few days. I just need to figure out how exactly to get that. LOL!
Anyway…you KNOW she’ll be calling you all the time to talk, so you’ll still get to have the great conversations, even if it is only for a few minutes instead of ALL DAY.