I'm Sorry, What Was I Saying?

Tonight is the first time I've felt able to stop since the beginning of the week, more mentally than physically. My class started on Monday and everything is going smoothly, but there's always a lot of busy work to be done. Answering student questions about access to the course materials, formats for their assignments, testing me to see what kind of teacher I am. It's all pretty straightforward, but it seems to fry my brain pretty well by the end of the day.

The boy has been very expressive this week (another thing keeping me busy) and seems to be grasping emotions like love, comfort, and safety. He's had happiness, joy, and squealing down pat for awhile. Squealing isn't exactly an emotion, but when he belts one out it's distinctly different than the other two. His new word for everything, from Bert & Ernie, to pictures of animals, and of course our feline is "gitty-GAT". He seems to go through cycles where he's constantly saying one word at a time. The kid is so frickin adorable.

You know, I think I've been kind of shuffling along in this blog, not really having a clear focus and I end up talking about how tired I am. It's not exactly an exciting read as a result, although it has been cathartic at times which is only a good thing. I guess I'd like the blog to be about something but I don't know what that is. I started this blog with the intention of writing about a new phase of my life and it certainly has been one. So, where does that leave me?

It's not like I thought I'd have daily flashes of brilliance about being a dad, especially since it doesn't work like that. To be honest, I'm really not sure what I thought! Well, it seems like I may have discovered a thread to follow there. :) I've also wanted to fit in my thoughts and feelings on Buddhism somehow, but I haven't been making the time to learn more about it myself. That's definitely another thread. Interesting...we'll see where this goes.