75 per cent
my parents left today: they will arrive in edmonton late tomorrow afternoon.
they did not depart alone…oh no. they took carys with them. (grandad blake with carys, left)
even though it has been only a few hours, i cannot believe how easy it is with only three children.
seriously.
meals are finished faster, the noise level is reduced by more than 25 per cent (it seems), there is one less moving shape to track.
when sebastian was an infant, on saturdays charles would take him out of the house and give me a few hours to be sane again. and i remember thinking, everything is so easy when there is no baby. well the same apparently applies when you go down from four to three. it is amazing. surprisingly, none of the remaining three have stepped up to bat and been more difficult.
however, my ease and enjoyment of increased relaxation is marred by this little awareness that we are not complete. the triumverate have not been separated for one night since carys arrived home from the hospital. but tonight, jasper and sela will rest their heads and carys will be hundreds of kilometres away. i hope my parents remember that carys likes to sleep on her tummy and hates having a blanket tucked around her.
i love the extra quiet, but i also like (forgive me for going all jerry mcguire) the feeling of being complete that i get when i know my family is safe, nearby, and happy. it was bad enough with mc being gone, and now these forlorn feelings are increasing.
