We are waiting in the Ronald McDonald family room with cousin Samantha who is just off the night shift. One of the surgical nurses called to say that all of Bayla's lines are in (there are a lot of them) and surgery is about to commence. It is about 10:00 a.m. and we expect surgery to last 5-7 hours, though perhaps that includes the last hour.
Shoshana is sewing a little doll for Bayla. The pattern is in Dutch, which makes it harder. (If you know what knip de rest van de tricot kort af means, let her know).
I worried a lot about what to read and ended up with a siddur, Wordsworth, Aristotle's Ethics and The Thin Man, none of which seems quite right at the moment. Neither Aristotle nor Hammett was particularly interested in children. The Nicomachean Ethics may have been edited by Aristotle's son Nicomachus but the subject of childhood never comes up. Aristotle does say that if one isn't brought up into the virtues early then a good life is impossible, but how this is to happen and what it means for the parent as well as the child is left a mystery.--A mystery in which Hammett's Nick & Nora are entirely uninterested.
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Dutch is similar to Afrikaans, so I understand some of it. It means something like "finish up the rest of the tricot"?? Does that make sense? I have a friend living in Holland, so I will ask her.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that things are going well. I am going grocery shopping tomorrow - let me know if you need anything. :-)
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