Sad Jet

[liralen]

John and Jet went swimming last night, while I went and got a massage.

Jet then went to sleep earlier than the night before, and he seemed pretty tired and cranky, telling me that he had to nurse downstairs until I just pulled him, gently, into the rocking chair in his room and he said, "Oh, okay..." and relaxed.

He went to sleep pretty quickly.

He got up around 5:45, and he started asking for his monkey! So much for not being attached... he finally settled for two teddy bears (including the one Rick and Limarick had given him) and me. He kicked around for a bit and finally went back to sleep.

I got back up at 6:45, changed the alarm in our room to 7am, and was rudely awakened, but then couldn't Get Up. So lay there for another fifteen minutes before dragging myself out of bed, got ready, and then just walked out the door to work. Oops. I'm now realizing that I forgot to water my plants, but they'll survive one day of neglect... John was up with me, but Jet was still sound asleep.

Anyway... walked into work. got here just in time to get an agenda out, call someone that I felt I should call, but he wasn't there. He did, however, show up at the meeting to explain more of the system problems that this particular change was supposed to help, and that helped mollify my own mild rage at this late date change he and his folks were proposing. It also addressed some other objections folks had, which was good.

I also found out that my problem child of a project had been thoroughly taken care of by the originally reluctant engineer, and she seemed to feel better about having done it. ALSO got in my 1:1 with my report only to return to my desk with a blinking message light... and called the guy I tried to call earlier, and got that hashed out.

Which was when Rosty arrived to say that Jet had had a very sad morning, where he was clingy and sad and he wanted "the singing school", which, I think, was Brenda's because she and her kids did a lot of singing to learn various things. So much for taking his morning protests at face value, I guess. The teacher was quite willing to hold him when John finally left; but we still have a ways to go with this transition, I think... it seems to take him a couple of months to get into a new place, completely, but yesterday's start was good enough I'd been willing to hope. But maybe it's just really sinking in, with Jet, that he isn't going to be able to go back to Brenda's.

Sigh. We'll get through it, but it was sad to hear about.

Okay... not as sad as the story of the school and all its children being held hostage in Russia... I guess that does give one perspective.

Comments

[tagryn]

Sorry to hear about Jet. He sounds like a pretty adaptable kid, though, and it might be something that'll just take time, like you said. Doesn't make it any easier, but hopefully he'll find things about the new school that he enjoys as much as the singing at Brenda's place.

I've been following the Russia situation here, and it doesn't look like its going to end well, unfortunately. A commenter on another blog mentioned the Russians are just reaping what they sowed when they basically bombed Chechnya into the ground a few years back. Still, I just don't believe that you take out the sins of the parents on the children. Its thinking like that that causes hate to stick around from generation to generation, I think. The teaching against taking revenge, however justified, is one of the most important lessons of the New Testament, IMO; its also one of the hardest, because it goes against human nature not to demand "eye for an eye" when wronged.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I totally agree on both counts, especially since I heard that, this morning there was an "unplanned" storming of the school. The school is now leveled... and there's no idea how many casualties there actually are, though, of the 1000 people believed to have been in there, most have made it out, it seems?

They say, also that some of the original gunmen are now at large in the city...

But I totally agree about not taking the sins of the parent out on the children... and about the horror of the past. And, yeah, I agree that that's a fundamental point of the New Testiment.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

One other point, though, is that the Chechen rebels are Muslim, and a fundamental pillar of their religion is "Justice". Though, there are plenty of Muslims that regard the hostage taking of children as completely unjust, no matter how many children the Russians killed. Justice should be wrecked on the wrong-doers, not the innocent. But that's something else.