3 boys sleeping

I have definitely entered a new life phase. All three boys are sleeping on this Sunday morning following the "Fall Back" weekend. Cal and Eli are fully entrenched in their own activities, leaving Pat and me on our own both Friday and Saturday nights. Adam has been elusive as fog for years. Pat and I had dinner with my parents at Chandler's and it felt like that was the future. The old folks going out to dinner on Saturday night, although it was nice to spend time together. They ask about the boys, and support their activities, but are really more interested in adult interaction.
Later we watched an interesting film called "Sorry, Haters." I chose it because I like Robin Wright Penn, who stars in it. It was billed as a thriller, but really more of a psycho-political drama, with racial overtones (Arab). Robin was playing "gritty" (read, no make-up, air brushing, etc.). This should garner her some Acadamy Award notice, for this small independent film. It had me questioning my assumptions about who the bad guys really are. It brought up the idea that September 11 could be a point in time when some people felt good and useful, and are looking to recapture that feeling, at any cost.
I'm on my way out now, walking over to my parents', for my Sunday morning visit which is now my ritual in leiu of church.

enjoyable Saturday

After working part of Saturday at a drug task force event in Canton, Pat, Cal and I were relaxing in the living room. The first World Series game was on, The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, and Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets. Cal was keen on the latter film (Cards were up by too many)and sitting between Pat and me with blankets all over us. He was completely contented to be in the center of us. He asked, "Are you gellin'?" and we all agreed we were.

Eli was at a "junior high costume party." I was reading "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce" and thinking about how a divorce would devastate this picture and his safe, comforting world. And people do it everyday without the thought of what they are doing to the children.