Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Time Passages

Teething? Run-of-the-mill fussiness? Night owl? Not sure which of those, or something else, might be keeping Jonas up all night, but last night was one for the textbooks. Up at 11:30, up at 1, up at 2, up at 3, on and on. Was Jonas really able to sleep through the night that one time, or had that just been a dream?
And speaking of dreams, could there be anything worse than waking up every hour or so, and then, once you get back to bed, having a song stuck in your head so bad that you just want to cry? For Niki, ironically, it was Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town. Or more specifically, the line about "John F. Kennedy, and the Bea-tles..." But for me, I was cursed with Al Stewart's equally ironic Time Passages, and unfortunately, not a particular lyric, but a guitar part that, it turns out, is difficult to describe, especially at 2 in the morning and with an equally tired wife trying to figure out what in the world you are talking about.  One day we'll probably laugh as we tell Jonas these stories. But we're going to force him to listen to these songs as we tell them.

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