Day: April 2, 2004

The place I rented the wood splitter from was giving away free cokes and free dry roasted peanuts. So, I had a craving for more peanuts and invited the family on a date to the Texas Roadhouse where we could have steaks and, yes, more dry roasted peanuts. Except for the terribly long wait and the stoned waiters and waitresses, the evening was much fun.

Amy went into the bathroom, climbed into the tub, pointed at the knobs and said “fix it!” I couldn’t say no to the sweetness and so she got a bath.

Later I was on the phone to Air Quality control (burn permit), Environmental Safety (mosquitoe control for the neighborhood), the party company regarding our may event and the middle school principal and gym coach regarding Tommy’s hostile environment.

I got a haircut, dropped by Office Depot to pickup Cathy’s copies, dropped by the bowling alley to confirm the girlscout event tomorrow, went to the Gateway store to see if the closing had any good specials on–no such luck, went to Home Depot, then the bank, then the rental company.

Finally I returned home to start splitting an impossible amount of wood for a single person to handle.

And the vultures begin to suck the account.

Amy just poured Gatorade all over my pants and cried when I quickly moved her to the floor to clean the mess. I suppose I over reacted and could have handled her more gently.

Now she cries because her baby doll doesn’t fit in a box she’s aquired. Oh. All better. She made it work.

She is playing happily with her doll. Some of her cutest words for me are when she says “Uh oOH!”

Amy just heard a helicopter fly over our house and tracked the sound with her head and said “ar plane?” And now stood in my lap and turned the lightswitch off then on observing the light turn dark then bright, laughed in satisfaction and said “I did it!”

Amy is having a hard time deciding if she woke up on the good size or the bad size of the bed. Very impatient this morning. Still adorable!

A New Day!

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This Morning

I slept very well. Had vivid dreams. The memorable ones were of Cathy and I working together on something and letting Noah use a sailboat to get all over either Tennessee or perhaps the whole United States. We used a GPS to track where he was and I was happy he was “getting to do things I couldn’t.”

For some inexplicable reason, I woke at 2:55 as I do many mornings. I almost got up to do creative writing on the blogs. I felt like I had a couple of hours to spare and that I have a couple of hours of writing I want to do. Instead I returned to sleep and woke again at 5 then hung out inbetween waking and sleeping in a semiconscious state and spent an hour telling myself to get out of bed.

Noah, the morning person, got himself up at 6am and as I was getting dressed came to check on me and make sure I was awake. He is such a great child!

Worked on Cathy’s printer. Gave Tommy his medicine at 6:20 and am now enjoying the writing.

Today’s goals: Get a haircut at 11:30 then rent a log splitter. Time permitting replace the starter in the Jeep. The afternoon is to be spent cutting wood. Saturday day is girlscout bowling and something else then Saturday afternoon and evening splitting wood. And all day Sunday is to be spent splitting wood. Then the rest of the week Tommy can help me stack it. A 2nd strong adult would really be helpful this weekend.