Peace & Quiet

All of a sudden our house is quiet. Matjaz, Magdalena and their two girls were here since Sunday afternoon. It's now Wednesday morning. They left about two hours ago. The girls and Clay have had a blast and an injury or two. Zarja is so in love with Thadeus.

Yesterday morning Naza was decided to throw some blocks and unfortunately Clay's head stopped it's flight plan. The corner of the blocks got him right behind the ear and left a good mark. After Clay was calmed down we saw him pick the blocks up and start walking towards Naza. I yelled at him to stop just before he raised him arm. He looked at me and looked at her and said something and pointed to his head and told her "ouchy!" He left the girls and walked across the room to his stuffed lion. He lectured the lion for a moment then applied the blocks to the lions head and threw them both. Then he repeated, "Ouchy!"

This is when it dawned on me what he was trying to communicate. It wasn't his intention to take revenge on Naza. He just wanted her to understand that what she did hurt him. When Clay bites or hits us in the face we'll do it back and explain that it doesn't feel good. This is what he wanted to do.

This morning Matjaz came into the kitchen and said that they would be heading home after breakfast. He was joking at how relieved I would be and then commented from the guest's point of view life just goes on and it's no big deal. I was thinking about this later and that for the host life sort of comes to a stand still when there's company in the house. These stand stills have always annoyed me, but maybe they're a good thing. Perhaps we need these interruptions to make us stop and look at priorities and what's really important to us. That's my one serious, deep thought for the day. I can go to bed now.