We’ve been busy with this and that and the other all week, but in a happy way, and time has continued to slip out of my grasp. I told my Dad that I feel like I wake up on Monday morning and go to bed on Friday night. It all just goes so fast! He’s warned me that it just speeds up the older we get. Yikes!
Arden’s been busy growing new teeth. You know, babies really do have a lot of hard work to do. Teething hasn’t been too much fun for him, though he remains even-tempered about it most of the time. Right now the poor dear is sleeping off a baby aspirin after his hectic, red cheeks alerted me to the fact that he might be running a fever (which he was, 39.28 Celsius). Here’s a series of photos I took of him on my lap the other day – you can see what he’s thinking, all the way from ‘not now, really’ to ‘one must not disappoint one’s admirers’. LOL.
When I was uploading these pictures from the camera, I found some that were still there from our trip to Luxembourg in August. How they escaped unnoticed till now is beyond me, but here’s a last glimpse of summer fun.
Arden has been sitting up a little more often, and is doing much better about not tipping over when he reaches for something. I couldn’t resist snapping this photo. Doesn’t he look delighted with himself?
He was also delighted when Chiloe surprised us all with a package of gifts – Chiloe, that was so unexpected and so generous! Thank you, Chiloe!! Nothing like a soothing bath and massage to forget the pains of teething!
I was also surprised to find my name over at Anna and Lennu’s blogs the past day or so. You two made me seriously blush! Thank you for your kind words and your generous support. 
Speaking of my etsy shop, however obliquely, I’ve gotten two more custom orders this week. Yay!
I have been stitching, but I’ll wait to post a picture till it’s 100% finished. It is finished, but then I decided it needed a bit more, so it’s under the needle again. LOL. I’ve also been reading. I finished Paul Auster’s Oracle Nightand it was an inspired follow-up to Murakami’s collection of short stories, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. I loved The Kite Runner, as I’ve already mentioned. I greatly enjoyed Sarah Water’s novel The Night Watch, particularly how it moved backward in time. Here are my favorite lines from the novel: She supposed that houses, after all – like the lives that were lived in them – were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, that counted, rather than the bricks. Today I read Pat Barker’s Double Vision, which was as “unputdownable” as the jacket claimed, and I was jolted by the realization that Pat is a woman, not a man. Have you ever had that, in reading a novel, that you’ve just assumed the gender of the author and then been surprised to find out you were wrong? Just a little tangent, there, nothing important. It was a very readable novel. Niek was pointing out the other night that we seem to have reached an age in which we enjoy the movies where ‘nothing much seems to happen’, when the story is more important than the action. Anyway, my current novel is A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright. So far, I’m not sure if I like it or not.
But the biggest surprise of this weekend will have to wait till tomorrow, because I want it to have its own post. So I’ll see you later, alligator! 
Special thoughts going out to some dear friends who are struggling with physical pain. Dear Deb and Jennifer, I do hope that relief is just around the corner.
