I think one of (the many) things I hate most about what we are going through is that even when Houdinin has a better day than the previous one, we're too afraid to get our hopes up. Without fail, everytime we've thought, "Yes! This is it, this is the turning point" things take a nose dive for a few days. I know I am superstitious and I know I drive Lemel crazy with my talk about evil eyes and jinxes and the logical, educated side of me tells me that getting happy about a not so bad day does not mean the gods are going to turn around and make us regret our little moment of tempered joy. Try saying that to the illogical, emotional side of me--aka the mother in me. Hah.
That sentence about the gods just reminded me of two of my favourite Greek quotes when I was a teenager. I always thought part of each would make a really good title for a novel or a story. They were 'Whom the gods destroy, they first drive mad' and 'Whom the gods love, they kill young'. I don't want to think about how sometimes those two quotes seem to reflect my current life.
