Prisoners in the Woods

Waiting is holding us still; Eirwen long ago has taken herself out of matters of daily concern. To be sure, she is camping in the ‘going to the hospital bag’. She is not keen on missing the event. So we haven’t seen her much recently and so far she hasn’t become part of our daily lives. It’s a shame but I think it shows a serious degree of dedication to her ‘job’. She will want to start her life in the house as the baby-bear as opposed to ‘one of the bears’, like us, who happened to be around at the time. Valid point.

And what all this have to do with woods and prisoners? Well, nothing at all really. Nothing at all. If anything... I could say that while we wait members of the house get up to all kind of activities to kill time. No, that’s not true, we do not do such rituals as killing the time although metaphysically speaking it could be an interesting idea but probably impossible to peruse. Have to do something with living in organised society, I think just from the top of my head. All in all we do get up to have a bit of good time while we are waiting for the newest little one to be born. That is, the list of waiters on the having an easy time as follows: Tobi, Lili, Moses, Theodor, Elena – she is back from Vietnam, Mafalda, Hava and Gabor. We do find lots of fun while waiting. Eirwen and Jen are different though. I mentioned about Eirwen already. Jen... hm, she is just busy I guess.

Gabor took me to the woods outside Oulu last weekend and although I haven’t been his prisoner in a sense I became one. It was like some sort of initiation for me. Without the dancing around the fire. But there was fire. I read extracts from my writings to a bunch of others who are also into words. They are the other prisoners. Of words. It was pretty fun and I am sure you will hear more of them. Or perhaps not. I am kind of a quiet partner in the group but I had to mention about this experience. I like being in the woods. Maybe it’s a quality of being a bear. But I am going to get back to working on my other story now. It’s about the time I came to Oulu. I started writing it on the blog but I never got to finish so now I would like to write it all down in one piece. That will be fun!

Tic Toc

Waiting

Gabor doesn’t let me on the computer much these days. I cannot blog like this. But finally he has come to his senses. A lot of things have happened in the last three weeks or so...

A couple of weeks back we had a fairly exciting time in the house although not everyone. Lili and Moses slept through it like babies probably still resting out our great adventure to the far south, to Helsinki. I started sleeping well and comfortably as cuddling up in my armchair. I mean in Gabor’s armchair. I woke because Jen was wondering about and she was being visibly uncomfortable. Almost like you would expect a woman to be when in labour, early stages. She told me to get back to sleep there is nothing to worry about, it was just tricky things happening but the baby wasn’t coming yet and she mysteriously added ‘perhaps someone else’.

Trying to sleep hard as I could I couldn’t. Neither could she which was no wonder to me, Tobi was seriously over excited literally bouncing of the walls while Lili snored so hard that I could hear the neighbours downstairs moaning about it. Gabor slept like a baby while I wondered what if Jen was wrong? What if this night...

She woke him up eventually and I wasn’t comfortably snuggling up any longer, for me it was more an edge of the seat drama by then. But nothing extraordinary happened. He did some of the hand placing healing he does for Lili when she has a cut or bruise and he went back to sleep. He tried but he was excited too. Eventually though they both managed to fall back to sleep while Tobi and I disappointed as we were decided to play a game of 16. We were only half way through when there was a gentle knocking on the door. I wouldn’t have noticed if not for Tobi. His ears are even better than bears’. Scary.

Stupid he can get or maybe the late hour he thought and to be honest had me convinced quickly it was the baby coming. I must have been tired after the excitement and the lack of sleep. It wasn’t the baby of course knocking on the door. Eirwen the bear. She is a cousin of Moses until recently living up north, very north but now retiring to take care of Lili’s little sibling. She arrived at last.

We quickly cast aside our board game and made a nice cup of tea to welcome her. But she just went to sleep on the chair in the hall before it was ready. Probably being tired after the long journey...

Next morning Gabor decided Erwin’s arrival was a sing and he insisted on starting to make up the bag to take to the hospital. That was some 2 weeks ago and we are still waiting. And hopefully I will be allowed to use the laptop more regularly from now on.