Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The view from Monsterland

For those of you who don't know, when I first met my now stepsons, I referred to them as, "the monsters," which they got a huge kick out of. "I'm her favorite monster!" "No, I'm her favorite monster!"

Anyway, it has been enormously refreshing to see my current situation from their perspective. They really don't seem phased by what has felt like complete turbulence to me.

When I first saw them after returning from FL, and was trying to talk (I'm difficult to understand), they didn't miss a beat. I asked how that was possible. Adam explained, "We always mumble with our mouths full of food, so we're used to this." When they come over and I walk in the room, they're glad to see me but won't look up for more than 15 seconds if a video game is more engrossing. When I'm at the dining table, syringe in hand, they don't act like there is anything remotely unusual about eating in this manner.

The normalcy that they provide is really a nice change from how disorienting this feels to me.

It's good to have the Monsters around.

--K--