在美好的路上

          昨晚睡得很不安穩。

          每次S 離家遠行的第一個晚上，我都無法安然入睡，惡夢連連。大概也跟昨兒白天早上Jamie 突然發生狀況，緊急送醫有關吧！

        在網路上 讀到一篇文章提及人到三十交友難。為什麼難？作者列出的原因包括：一，你開始覺得人生有限，不能過多用在與陌生人交流; 二，結交好友的三個外在條件：近距離接觸、反覆見面、計劃外的互動很難滿足; 三，社會地位和收入差異; 四，對方配偶的介入; 五，子女限制了社交圈; 六，你對好友的標準比年輕時嚴格很多。

                 So we had this conversation over and over again....or I should say he has lectured me on the same topic over and over again. "All that Bible Study and blogging takes up too much of your time. You need to think about what your priority is as a full time mom and wife." he would say to me whenever I forgot to do the things he had told me to do.

               The same thing happened again yesterday morning when he was waken up by Madison's alarm clock and got all flustered. Frustrated, he came downstairs, seeing me do my devotional reading, started scolding me on how I had been careless on Madison' sleep quality and her diet. "That's why Madison doesn't grow as much. She's not getting enough sleep. Also, look what you gave them for lunch yesterday. They can't just eat salad. They are kids and they are growing. They can't eat like us. You, as a mom, need to make sure that she gets enough sleep and eats properly. I don't care about your BSF and all that blogging....you need to do your job as a mom."

              今年母親節原本答應婆婆所屬長老教會的牧師，讓兩個女兒去拉小提琴，後來因姐姐考樂團一事而延後，此事一直記掛心中。雖說請女兒前去表演一事，多少是為了給公婆做面子，但是對學琴學了四五年，卻鮮少上台露兩手的妹妹來說，不失為一個表演的好機會。因此兩週前我主動與該教會牧師聯絡，幾經商討後敲定在今天的主日。

           家裡用了七年的Dyson 吸塵器最近經常出毛病，開關打開之後，「只聞馬達響」，卻完全沒有任何吸力。其實，家裡的吸塵工作主要落在清潔阿姨及有吸塵潔癖的老公身上，我很少用; 修機器之事拖了近一個月，今天終於下定決心找機會送進廠，將這件懸在心頭的雜事一併解決。

        上網Yelp 一番，找到一家離家不遠的吸塵器專賣/修理店。

        這部改編自法國文豪Victor Hugo 1862 年的作品Les Miserables 音樂劇拍成電影後，一直想看。無奈連續幾個週末排滿了兩姐妹球賽的行程，根本「喬」不出三個鐘頭的時間到戲院。上個星期在創文退修會上，又聽到惠琬老師說最近因著電影的上映及奧斯卡提名熱潮興起她重讀一千九百頁小說的興趣，更下定我看這部電影的決心。