Day Two Hundred and Twenty Two
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh Page: 710 Finished
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Page: 130
I’m posting in the morning again. Not, this time, because of internet difficulties, but because of wakefulness difficulties. That is, Jared and I put the boys to bed at eight and fell onto the bed asleep. Seriously, Jared was so disoriented that when the boys woke up in the night that he didn’t even know he had fallen asleep. Strangely we don’t feel super-rested this morning despite getting two extra hours of sleep…something about two years worth of sleep-debt.
We certainly had a busy day yesterday, four hours of yard-sale in the morning, preceded by an hour’s work getting ready for it. I got to read during most of the sale time while Jared chased the boys but when nap time rolled around Alex stubbornly refused to be sleepy. He played in bed, woke his brother up, cried, etc and then when we tried to do it all again an hour later he refused again. So we lost one of the weekend’s most precious gifts, two-kids-napping-and-mom-and-dad-alone-time. If you haven’t children I’m not sure you can appreciate what a devastating loss this really is. Anyway, after non-nap time we headed out to Doug and Pam’s to go swimming and then have dinner and listen to a concert in the park. We enjoyed the water and the sun and left early enough to make home by the boys’s (and apparently our) bedtime.
I’m really not sorry to be finished with Waugh’s trilogy even though I enjoyed it but I’m also not glad to be reading Forster. Most reading is a pleasure in and of itself but, like Heart of Darkness, I read A Passage to India for post-colonial lit and neither enjoyed the book nor its interpretation. But here we go again…