This morning the sky outside is dark and foreboding ... it's going to pour soon. As I looked at the balcony it occurred to me that there have been many, many subtle changes to our lifestyle .... we used to sit outside on our swing-seat a lot ... not any more! Why not? (The rain is bucketing down now!). The changes are part business and part Kaylia. Business? We're working harder than ever before ... both of us. Hopefully it will slow down in the future.
Kaylia's routines affect us in so many ways .... it is too energy-sapping to challenge all the routines - we have to pick the battles that are worth fighting! As a result we find ourselves changing our habits to fit hers ... and our routines become condensed to those that are important.
I wonder if other parents of auty ones experience the same? (Kaylia has gone upstairs with a DVD and closed the door .... I can switch off for a few moments as I know what her routine will be.)
It was about 5 minutes break ....
She's flopping round on top of me now. I feel guilty because I can't supply enough "interest" for her. The absence of imagination is such a curse. You don't realize just how dependent we are on imagination till you try to comprehend existence without it. The curse is to be intelligent without the ability to imagine. Without the intelligence, the absence of imagination would not be noticed ... with intelligence, she is constantly seeking activity ... but she can't generate it herself.
That then leads to .... "What's the difference between memory and imagination?"
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