This was our first week with our new arrangement and all in all it's
been going pretty well. The hardest part has been Chet. After a month
in Georgia with his mother and grandmother it's been a little hard for
him up here. He just said that the huge log home in the woods on a
lake where they live is his real home. He's also been asking me,
repeatedly, if I had to choose between A and him and his sister who
would I pick.
I'm not sure how much of that is him just
being a natural-born actor and how much of it is real. He is playful
and wonderful around A and of course it's hard for him to believe me
when I say that A and I are planning on being together forever. With
Cristina, my previous girlfriend, who lived in Italy, the kids never
had any real competition for my day-to-day affection. Now A is here
half the week but she is a very steady presence in our lives so of
course there will be some growing pains. It's just that my amazing
little seven-yearp-old shoots off the hardest questions to answer.
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