miscellania
Jan. 27th, 2006 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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cerr for this one: British Library Online Gallery
*all* of them are amazing... Oh, the hours sure to be wasted, nay...well-spent!
And tonight. while reading my boy a chapter from Peter And The Starcatchers (a "prequel" to Peter Pan), I was reflecting on the fact that he passed a milestone today. The phone rang, my partner answered, one of his classmates (the classically-named, and somewhat trouble-making "Apollo") asked for my boy, and after he took the phone, set up a play-date with him. This is a first, a direct call between our son and a friend to set up a get-together, no parents instigating or involved. We discussed afterwards with him the need in the future to have both sets of parents involved for any such rendezvous, but y'know, this is just the beginning. It won't be long before I start hearing, "oh, Dad, not now, gotta go, I want to go play with my friends." And Dad's storytelling and songs every night before bedtime won't be such a special time, and instead of. "oh, please, just one more chapter"? eventually, it'll be "aw, Dad, I have to stay up and do homework, I don't have time for stories."
So I'm holding every moment precious, because sure it is, each moment only comes the once, and then (*poof*) it's gone.
cerr for this one: British Library Online Gallery*all* of them are amazing... Oh, the hours sure to be wasted, nay...well-spent!
And tonight. while reading my boy a chapter from Peter And The Starcatchers (a "prequel" to Peter Pan), I was reflecting on the fact that he passed a milestone today. The phone rang, my partner answered, one of his classmates (the classically-named, and somewhat trouble-making "Apollo") asked for my boy, and after he took the phone, set up a play-date with him. This is a first, a direct call between our son and a friend to set up a get-together, no parents instigating or involved. We discussed afterwards with him the need in the future to have both sets of parents involved for any such rendezvous, but y'know, this is just the beginning. It won't be long before I start hearing, "oh, Dad, not now, gotta go, I want to go play with my friends." And Dad's storytelling and songs every night before bedtime won't be such a special time, and instead of. "oh, please, just one more chapter"? eventually, it'll be "aw, Dad, I have to stay up and do homework, I don't have time for stories."
So I'm holding every moment precious, because sure it is, each moment only comes the once, and then (*poof*) it's gone.
