Day: June 13, 2004

I’m going to compliment myself on this one because the steaks came out just right!

Helped Noah collect ants for his ant farm. Strange. These little things I once or twice a year battle to get them out of the house I am now bringing into the house on purpose. Couldn’t help but stare and watch them work.

Amy was jazzed to be home. She obviously had a blast this weekend and was quite wired. She ran around giving everyone big hugs and had a perpetual smile on her face. I think she loves her trips with her grandparents but is always excited to return home.

Done out. Time to lay in bed with the wife.

My typically weekly cleaning includes scrubbing the hardwoods minus the bedrooms. That’s done.

Time to cook dinner.

Whew! Kitchen cleaned and I mean CLEAN! Scrubbed all exterior surfaces (inside the cabinets and fridge alluded me). Moved the appliances and scrubbed under them. Scrubbed floor.

Onto hardwoods…

Tommy, Noah and I played an adventure in Dungeons and Dragons and had a blast!

Tommy just ran over one of my dwindling supply of moving straps with the lawn mower. I can’t be angry at him although he is supposed to look where’s he is mowing. I have to be angry at myself for not putting it away in the first place. I don’t want to waste energy being angry. Just learn learn learn. Two steps forward one step backwards.

It was not Noah I heard but Tommy. Cathy has risen also. So I decide to make breakfast.

A New Day!

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This Morning

As we lay down to bed last night my wife comments “there is no baby here tonight. You don’t need to wake up at 2am, 4am and 6am.” I questioned the 2am. The 4am is an alarm I have oft set. The 6am is the other alarm. I said “no problem. There are no alarms set.” I woke at 1:45, 3:30 and 6am! I finally dragged myself from bed around 9am because our visiting dog (we have the inlaws dog while the inlaws have our girls) was barking and I just knew that if she didn’t get a walk there would be more mess than I was sure was already upstairs (she prefers to poop on our wood floors instead of the grass).

The next debate. As my family sleeps, what is my next move?

a) Cook bacon, eggs, toast and sausage DONE

b) Clean my office and/or desk

c) Get the paper and submit resumes

d) Work on automating one of my websites (the stages: make database driven, grab data automatically)

e) Read a book

f) Home repair

g) Clean the garage

h) Play Dungeons and Dragons with the boys DONE

i) Work on wife’s web projects

j) Weekly cleaning of kitchen, bathroom, wood floors minus bedrooms, and wood floors in the bedrooms

k) Fix lunch (sandwiches) DONE

l) Cook steaks for dinner DONE

Noah rises.