Day 7 - Love

• We passed the garden with the cat again. It wasn't there. Thank god. There was only a brief questioning about its whereabouts but no further elaborate debate about the feeding habits of Baden's indigenous wildlife.
• I am now certain that there are two different kinds of love between human beings. Love between adults is based on romance, passion and friendship. Whereas love for your children and that of children for their parents MUST be something completely different because on the contrary to adult love, it is unconditional. Reading the entry about "love" in Wikipedia unfortunately didn't really bring any more insight, so I will give an example to illustrate my theory. Take a standard situation between a mother and a little baby boy and transfer it into an adult setting:
  Two people, a male and a female. You see him sitting round naked in the living room playing around with his willy, suddenly he poops onto the carpet. She shouts at him: "Oh bad boy! You are naughty, naughty, NAUGHTY!". He starts crying and crawls towards her while she tells him off. That wouldn't be a scene from a normal relationship, would it? (Ok, ..., so maybe there are some couples that do even weirder stuff, but that isn't the point!)
  So the relationship with children is really strange and I do ask myself sometimes how that works. It must be some weird pheromone, hormone, whatevermone thing by mother nature that even though your kids sometimes drive you CRAZY and you sometimes shout at them a bit too much, we still love each other. That is a nice thing when you think about it (and if it wouldn't work that way then I guess mankind would have become extinct a long time ago). On the other hand if your boy-, girlfriend, husband or wife would even partially treat you in a similar fashion as your kids sometimes do (and vice versa), there would be no way you'd still love them.
  
• Matthias fell asleep at noon again while lying on me and so I fell asleep as well. Most important hint to any future parents: Gather sleep wherever and whenever you can. There is nothing more important than that - no really, nothing is more important, not hobbies, sex, blogging, etc.
• Florian was very rebellious today. I have to come up with methods to handle conflicts in a better way. "The war has just begun!"
• Lunch: bread and sausages. Dinner: aubergine & Chinese beef.
• I am quite exhausted today but had no coffee!
• And before I totally forget: Happy New Year of the Mouse! I actually thought that it would be on Saturday and the Year of the Ox, so I guess I'm already starting to show signs of Alzheimer's. Anyway, my mum reminded me yesterday and this year will be a good year since I'm a mouse!