My favorite mantras for the kids right now are: "Don’t put it down, put it away" and "You don’t get what you don’t ask for." I’ve always been amazed at what people will choose to accept or not receive simply because they are afraid to ask or assume the answer.
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
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Woof Rough, Start
Our boarder for the week arrived and, to remind us how displeased she was with the service on her last visit, she immediately pooped on the carpet and peed on Tommy‘s bed.
In other news, I got all the kids ready for school and sent 2 of them to their respective bus stops. Noah returns home to tell me that school was cancelled after one of his friends’ mother drove by and told him it was cancelled. I confirmed on WBIR that they are indeed closed. Every now and then Noah shows a little bit of spectrum. His statement this morning was a confused "some woman told me school was cancelled" while Sarah said, "___’s mom told me school was cancelled." There is no snow out and the roads are clear. Good day to cancel!
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What did he do?
I chose to clean. I feel good about what I’ve done. Wish I could do it for another 6 hours.
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What to do? What to do?
I have roughly 4 hours before I take Tommy to play D&D with a friend. Do I use that time to bathe the dogs, clean the house, play with the children, shop for groceries, lose myself in blogging and working on overdue personal websites, work on professional websites, home repair, auto repair, financial book balancing, planning ala First Things First, help the wife, or something else?
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Good day to sleep in
I could feel my weary body healing.
Alarm clock 1: Evan, 8 months and sleeping between Mom and Dad, sits straight up and starts looking around for trouble.
Snooze 1: Before he bolts, Dad puts an intriguing toy in his hand. Buys 3 minutes.
Snooze 2: Dad puts Evan in crib and places 3 different toys in front of him. Buys 4 minutes.
Alarm 2: Evan screams. Dad snoozes alarm with pacificer. Buys 1 minute.
Alarm 3: Amy, 3 years, magically appears sitting on the foot of the bed. Molly, the dog, is sleeping in her favorite “dead dog” position which is on her back with all 4 paws straight up in the air toward the ceiling. Dad moves Amy, who has removed her jamies and was looknig cold and stunned, to between Mom and Dad but notices Evan has left a large drool spot which would be uncomfortable on her bare skin so he slides her down some and adjusts covers. Buys 45 seconds.
Alarm 4: Dog rolls over and tries to share the same space as Dad. Evan screams. Dad throws in towel.
Let’s change a diaper and brew some coffee.
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Of Being Dad – Wrong reaction
So this morning Evan woke but wasn’t fully awake. Evan sleeps best in his swing
. His first night in the swing he slept 7 hours. Unfortunately this did not hold. He is now sleeping in 2-3 shifts through the night. The swing is wonderful and I highly recommend it!
When I took Evan from his swing he laid his head on my chest and started to drift off so I chose to lay down in Noah’s bed with Evan. Amy and Noah were in the front of the house watching television and both Evan and I drifted off. Shreeech! pause Schreeech! Amy has come into the room and is dragging a chair across the wood floors. I implore her to leave the room and she verbally refutes me. She wants to lay in the bed too. Evan’s eyes pop open.
Now, at this time, I have choices to make. I could be the quintessential father and respond lovingly or turn to something evil. Instead of helping her climb into bed, where I knew she would chatter and toss and turn, I asked her to leave. When she argued I barked. When Evan cried out, probably in response to my barking, I physically hauled her out of the room. Then I felt bad so we made cinnamon rolls.
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From the mouths of babes
Dad walks up stairs.
Evan (8mths), in sheer, high pitched squeal: Daa!That’s the best!
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Aging With Music
Ok. That does it. I’m old now! Someone has remade TMBG‘s Don’t Let’s Start into Musack for hold music! And they’ve slowed it down and added a country twang… ugh. “NO! Don’t don’t let’s start! This is the worst part….”
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Take this test
My wife just sent me a link. Reading between the lines I think she wants me to get a job!
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From the mouths of babes
Dad listening to classical music on NPR.
Amy: "I really like this Christmas music!" -
Seeking low cost, high volume van
Anyone know someone at a car dealership looking to move a program van or some large capacity vehicle at low cost? I missed an opportunity to get a 12 seater van for $4000 and now I’m practically in tears over it. I would jump at a 9-12 person van right now. Anything that seats 7 or more is what we need. We need something sooner than later so keep your eyes peeled. Thanks!
