The Sublime

When I took a Romantic lit class (that's Romantic with a capital R, thank you. It makes a difference) we leared about the concept of the Sublime. It's pretty cool, actually. It's like sunrise over the Grand Canyon, or a hundred hot air balloons lit up by their fires in the early morning, before it gets truly light, and taking off into a blue, blue sky. Something so overwhelmingly beautiful that it takes your breath away, or makes your chest feel as though it will explode.

So. What is my experience of the sublime today? I got both babies to sleep at the same time! They are snoozing on their floor pallet, happily sawing zzzzzzzzs while I took my shower and puttered around the house.

I know this might not compare with the sublime examples above to most people, but parents of twins especially will know how incredible it is to get both babies to nap at the same time. And Maia even crawled over to ask me to put her to sleep. Sean was ready, I was rocking him, and she seemed to be happily playing. But she saw me, and crawled over to the rocker and held up her arms.

Ooops. It's all over... she's awake.
But it was cool while it lasted......