Some updates on recent posts….

Much to our relief (I’m knocking on the wooden table as I type this!), the babies are generally sleeping quietly through the night in their cribs. Gabriel tends to wake up and cry until we come in to soothe him at least a few times a night between bedtime and midnight. But, from midnight to 6am he seems to sleep pretty soundly – or at least not loudly enough for us to wake up.

I went to the doctor last week about my wrist. Happily, after assessing the movement and my pain levels, he pronounced my case a mild one and indicated that he would not recommned a cortisone shot this time around. He gave me a wrist brace that comes up over my thumb to immobilize the wrist and thumb while I sleep and suggested that I take ibuprofen for the inflamation. So far, this seems to be helping because I haven’t had the levels of pain that I did a few weeks back.

I finished [b]From a Buick 8[/b] by Stephen King. I had taken some time off from reading the Gunslinger series, and I somehow ended up reading another King book as a distraction. This book was an interesting variation on his usual theme that focused more on the characters than on the events in which the characters find themselves. I think this may have something to do with this being his first book completed after [url=http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9906/20/stephen.king.accident.02/]his brush with death[/url] several years ago. He seems to be saying that the search for answers about the unexpected turns that our lives so often take is generally futile. There are no firm answers and no Hollywood endings where everything is neatly wrapped up.