Reality Me

Amy is a riot. She goes to a chair and slaps the seat with her hand and says “Sit Daddi Sit”

Later she comes to me and I think she is say ‘look dada a ball’ then she drops from her hand a blank ant and says “Look dada a bug!” She is quite proud of herself but I jump and scare her. Oops. I told her “good job” and we high fived.

I know why I can’t get out of bed even though I’m awake. My mind races with the hundreds of things I need to be doing and I can’t decide what to do so I go back to sleep. From now on, I will set a “get up early goal” before going to bed. I will say “if I get up early, this is what I will work on..”

Blast! Amy is awake. She is now suppose to rise for another 1.5 hours or more. I need to look in that room anyway for the medicine.

Found it! Tommy obviously got distracted at the television last night. It’s by the tv.

A New Day!

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This Morning

I woke before the 5am alarm and turned it off so the music would not disturb the wife. Was awake enough that I should have gotten out of bed. Instead I lounged and had some bizarre vivid dreams.

Now I cannot find Tommy’s medicine. It’s refill time so I cannot give it to him from the bottles. I had planned on cleaning manically in the kitchen before Cathy woke and instead I’m tearing the house apart trying to find something that I should be able to pickup with my eyes closed. This is so frustrating.

The snake passed. It definitely was 1.2 meters (4 feet) or more. Since the cat killed the chipmunks and I’m taking out the habitat and the snakes, a part of the appeal of the yard is lost for me. It’s been a long time since I noticed Racoons or possum too. The owl is rarely heard anymore and I haven’t seen the hawk alight in years.

I am still excited about the progress on the yard. I have great plans!

Yuck. Just ran the lawn mower over a 4 foot (1.2 meter) black snake and it lived. I like having those snakes around. They keep the mouse population down. I need to go put it out of its misery and bury it.

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke feeling miserable this morning. Got the kids up at 6 and slept until 6:25 then gave Tommy his medicine. After getting the kids off I came home to sleep some more but mostly laid in bed listening to Amy play over the intercomm. An hour later or so she started to ask for Dada so I went upstairs and we sat on the couch together and watched television and she wrestled some. After Cathy woke I returned to a deep sleep for 2.5 hours. I can feel my body fighting something and winning.

Last Night/Afternoon

It was Cathy’s birthday and of course I went upstairs with intention of reminding the kids but I forgot and they went the whole day without saying anything to their mother. Poverty and stress kept me from making her special day anything special at all.

In the evening Tommy stayed home to watch a movie while Cathy and Sarah did some mall shopping and Noah, Amy and I went to a muddy soccer field to have practice cancelled. We all ended up gathering at IHOP minus Tommy. This disturbed Noah greatly, “I wanted Tommy to come.” So Noah and I had one of those conversations about decisions and consequences and making choices.

Later a naked Amy was sitting on Tommy during reading time and peed on him. He reacted but for Tommy it wasn’t altogether that bad a reaction.

Sarah and I watched a movie on the Mayan pyramids as an extra credit assignment then I realized we missed Smallville! Ugh! Got to spend some time with Cathy after the kids went to bed.

I went and picked up two cakes from Rita’s Bakery (thanks to a wonderful mother-in-law) and delivered one to Cathy’s mother (who will deliver it to her mother) and one to Cathy.

Now I prepare for a meeting followed by an interview.

Amy has the greatest way of saying “hello”… “Hi Dada Hi!” and I now reply “Hi Amy Hi!” It’s so sweet!

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 5 to silence the music and debated getting up. Woke again at 5:50 and turned the alarm off so it would not go off at 6. Noah woke me at 6:10. Gave Tommy medicine at 6:25.

Last Night

Spent quality time with the wife. As tense as she’s been lately something seemed to have dropped. She was much more relaxed.

Came home to watch the kids while Cathy ran errands. Sarah and Noah immediately shot out the door to their friends. Noah later returned with sandwich bags of Cicada exoskeletons..Cathy will be thrilled when cleaning his room tonight. Sarah returned right behind Noah and was less than thrilled when I asked her to write down phone numbers of the people she invited to her party complaining “I’ll call them!” Well, if I waited until she called them she’d be 12 before I knew who was coming to her 11th birthday party.

She ended up helping me and I completely 11 phone calls to her 3. She will not be a call center operator that’s for sure!

Dinner was cooked. Pizza for the younger 3 and 30 minutes later brocoli and cheese stuffed chicken breasts for Tommy and I. Cathy is at a Girl Scout Council meeting and will eat later. Tommy was angry that he wasn’t eatting thin freezer pizza declaring “It’s not fair!” in a huff. He was later very happy with his meal wanting more after shoving it down. Amy ate most of her slice of pizza and is helping me finish my chicken. Cathy left a half a 12 oz glass bottle (long neck) of orange creme soda here and Amy keeps drinking from it–never spilling a drop!

Had lunch with some old business associates. We reminisced briefly then mostly talked about our families. Took a trailer load of trash to the dump. Need to do about 2 more but I don’t see it happening.