Just back from the book launch for Uncommon Magic, the anthology of writing by members of our Ban Righ writers group, which is over thirty years old. I wish I had some pictures, but I didn't bring my camera. Yet I don't feel guilty either, because there's no way I'd have been able to take pictures anyway, since I had my hands full with Oona. Or rather: Oona being mental. Because if there's one thing you can count on a two year-old to do, it's to start acting loud/mental as soon as a room goes quiet to listen to a reading. So we spent our time in the hall. At the far end.
On the way home, I made a list of all the places/venues that Oona has been removed from for mental behaviour:
On the way home, I made a list of all the places/venues that Oona has been removed from for mental behaviour:
+ literary readingsStill, the event went well. I think. Now we are home. Oona is in bed. I am drinking beer. That is all.
+ restaurants
+ dinner parties
+ dinners
+ lunches
+ breakfasts
+ snacks
+ stores
+ malls
+ visits with friends
+ visits with non-friends
+ workplaces
+ waiting rooms
+ Christina
oh well. that's a 2 year old for you. the book looks great. love the cover. can you bring me one? oh yeah and PROST! bitter lemon and vodka here.
ReplyDeleteBeen there - done that! You can depend on 2/3 yr-olds to be 'real'. Kind off grounding in a way! Hope he launch went really well for y'all xoxo
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ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. I learned my lesson and the last opening I had, my 4 year old and 18 month old stayed home with my in-laws. :) Which was good because there was a lot of installation work-it would have been a nightmare trying to keep them from running through one sculpture made entirely of prescription bottles! I think most adults too would love to run through the sculptures and hang on them and knock them together, but we've learned to constrain ourselves. 2 year olds haven't quite figured that out yet...
ReplyDeleteDespite the non-cooperation of your little one, glad the event went well!