So I am getting a glimmer of what life might be like when your child is in school full time. It was strange to not have my half pint side kick at my side. But since she is so excited to go every morning,I think we made the right choice in sending her and also to the right place. Now on to business of finding a new vocation. Sent from my Dick Tracy watch®
So here I sit on Fathers day writing an article about Fatherhood. A week ago I was looking for a job to fill the time when I would not be taking care of my daughter and the job offer comes the day before I go off on a 2 day camping trip. I guess that is one of the mysteries of life, that when you are most busy is when good things happen. But when you are idle, the phone never rings.
But I digress.
This is the face of a child who didn’t sleep through the night,woke up at a relatively late(for us)7:00, swam and then didn’t nap. I was tired. I needed a nap. I don’t know what will happen when she no longer needs a nap. More on this later….
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So all of the activities that we normally have planned were put on
hold for the winter and it stuck me how quickly one gets used to a
routine and that before you can really think about what is happening
you have scheduled away all of your free time.
So this is the end result of going christmas shopping with my daughter. Now we did manage to leave the store without a huge fit and no tears were shed. It really would have been all my fault if she did have a meltdown, as it is I can barely make it out of a modern store without the urge to purchase something. So be warned that if you think you can peek into a shop to look at something for the holidays, think again. Sent from my Dick Tracy watch®
I used to lie in bed with the wife reading the paper, joking about how this would all change once we decided to have a baby. Little did I know how right I was and how sleep effects your decision making and personality.
We have finally decided to let one another sleep in on given days. It really is a nice treat to get once a week. I wonder how having a second baby will work?
So I hope that everyone had a great meal and shared some old stories with family and friends. I came into this weekend expecting the worst and planned to hunker down to try to remember to not say anything I would later regret. I have been pleasantly surprised how well everyone got along.
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Where is that fine line between getting away from it all and same shit different venue?
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Nothing like have a big blank space and a lot of chalk on a sunny day. Sent from my Dick Tracy watch®
Ok so it really isn’t a story about how we found the best place to play in the snow, got exclusive access to our own patch of mountain or can afford to jet off to those sorts of places. Rather I just wanted to convey how much fun it is to share your passions with your children and to have them enjoy themselves as well.
Granted I fear tallying up of cost of renting equipment and lessons for a toddler in this day and age, so there might be a lot more sledding photos before we take on the snowboarding and skiing.
Once again the old saying about the best camera to have in any given situation is the one you have in your hand rings true as there way no way I was going to break out the SLR to try and capture any of these shots.
