Holding down the fort
What a few days it's been! My wife left for Massachusetts on Friday morning at 5am to go to her goddaughter's wedding. I was more than happy to arrange for her to go and to take the time off myself and watch the kids. So I have been Mistah Domestic (as one of my good friends called me) for the past four days.
Honestly, I think I'm starting to lose it a bit. My props go out to single moms out there. How they maintain their sanity while being a mom and having a job and everything else is beyond me. I'm keeping it together, but now that day 4 is nearly over I can feel myself starting to slip. I'm a little less patient than I have been the rest of the time, I am growing weary of the CONSTANT questions from my three year old, and at the end of the day I'm pretty exhausted. In a different way than a busy day at work.
Yes, for the ladies or married folks reading, I DO appreciate my wife. But those of you who know me know that this has never been an issue. My wife has been gone for 10 days before on missions trips and the like and I've managed OK. Those times solidified in my mind what an amazing woman she was. So while this has reinforced that, this is hardly a new sentiment or revelation.
What it HAS taught me or made me want to do is actually help out more around the house. And hear me out, I'm no slouch around here. As soon as I hit the door from work I start helping pick up the house, talk to my kids, help with homework, etc. But I think I could probably do a little more. I'm scared saying that knowing that my wife will end up reading this and ask me about it and I want to commit to take on an additional task here and there...but I don't want to fall down in my responsibility to get it done. It certainly has me thinking.
This weekend completely rocked. On Thursday I invited my brother to come down and stay with us for the weekend. He showed up around lunchtime on Saturday. Before he showed up I cleaned up the house and straightened it to look really nice as well as doing a bunch of laundry (not just mine, thank you), and vaccumed and stuff. When he showed up we did lunch and naps for the kids who take naps, put a movie on and then played Diablo2 for a few hours. It was good to play it again, but I knew my brother would be blown away by WoW so I was just biding my time.
When the girls got up, we got the kids ready and headed out to buy DUCK. That's right - because I didn't get one for Christmas and my brother was out of town he and I went to an Asian market (the only place I could find one that wasn't frozen) and bought one. It was awesome that they had them fresh. A little disturbing that it still had the head and feet attached.
Regardless, I bought it, hacked it up and did it on the rotisserie and made a damn fine bird. We sauteed mushrooms, asparagus, onions and garlic as a side dish and had a nice salad for a starter. It was AWESOME! After dinner we watched Shaun of the Dead which I loved and then I showed him WoW...and now the poor bastard has his own account and is completely hooke. Muahahahaha!!
Sunday was church (which was also very cool), lunch and then more WoW. Good weekend.
All in all I think I'm still doing well, but I'm definitely ready for my lovely wife to be back. Now...off to sleep.
Honestly, I think I'm starting to lose it a bit. My props go out to single moms out there. How they maintain their sanity while being a mom and having a job and everything else is beyond me. I'm keeping it together, but now that day 4 is nearly over I can feel myself starting to slip. I'm a little less patient than I have been the rest of the time, I am growing weary of the CONSTANT questions from my three year old, and at the end of the day I'm pretty exhausted. In a different way than a busy day at work.
Yes, for the ladies or married folks reading, I DO appreciate my wife. But those of you who know me know that this has never been an issue. My wife has been gone for 10 days before on missions trips and the like and I've managed OK. Those times solidified in my mind what an amazing woman she was. So while this has reinforced that, this is hardly a new sentiment or revelation.
What it HAS taught me or made me want to do is actually help out more around the house. And hear me out, I'm no slouch around here. As soon as I hit the door from work I start helping pick up the house, talk to my kids, help with homework, etc. But I think I could probably do a little more. I'm scared saying that knowing that my wife will end up reading this and ask me about it and I want to commit to take on an additional task here and there...but I don't want to fall down in my responsibility to get it done. It certainly has me thinking.
This weekend completely rocked. On Thursday I invited my brother to come down and stay with us for the weekend. He showed up around lunchtime on Saturday. Before he showed up I cleaned up the house and straightened it to look really nice as well as doing a bunch of laundry (not just mine, thank you), and vaccumed and stuff. When he showed up we did lunch and naps for the kids who take naps, put a movie on and then played Diablo2 for a few hours. It was good to play it again, but I knew my brother would be blown away by WoW so I was just biding my time.
When the girls got up, we got the kids ready and headed out to buy DUCK. That's right - because I didn't get one for Christmas and my brother was out of town he and I went to an Asian market (the only place I could find one that wasn't frozen) and bought one. It was awesome that they had them fresh. A little disturbing that it still had the head and feet attached.
Regardless, I bought it, hacked it up and did it on the rotisserie and made a damn fine bird. We sauteed mushrooms, asparagus, onions and garlic as a side dish and had a nice salad for a starter. It was AWESOME! After dinner we watched Shaun of the Dead which I loved and then I showed him WoW...and now the poor bastard has his own account and is completely hooke. Muahahahaha!!
Sunday was church (which was also very cool), lunch and then more WoW. Good weekend.
All in all I think I'm still doing well, but I'm definitely ready for my lovely wife to be back. Now...off to sleep.