*yawn*
Awake again at 4am. Overall life is going well, Bri's birthday was on Thursday and Alex made it an incredible experience with a big "golden birthday" party. Totally fun and amazing, Bri loved it to bits.
She is getting so much bigger now, with her own little personality. I don't know, they seem to go from bags of flour to little people to amazingly interesting people with their own thoughts and viewpoints so fast. I'm doing my best to savor her, as I did with Dylan and Tara. They are different people as well, and it's good to keep getting to know them again as they grow and change.
Dylan is turning into a pretty good person, he helps me outside with the leaves, does a pretty darn good job with the tractor, and part of the reason I like taking him to his TKD class is I can listen to him for a bit and see some of life through his eyes. He's amazingly stable, levelheaded, with a hilarious undercurrent of wit, I think he likes to have life figured out.
Tara is really nuts, but I love watching her think. She jumps to some of the most intuitive conclusions about things, often blurted out of the blue. She's exceptionally smart, I look at some of her homework and am amazed at what she's doing but at the same time she still has a childlike innocence that I wonder when it will go away and she will become a teen or something. Every year at the pool I am totally ok with her wearing an Amish swimsuit, or baggy clothes to school or whatever. There will be plenty of time for her to be a bombshell. I'm enjoying her exactly as she is, smart and funny and my sweetie...
They're changing, and I get to be a part of it. Maybe that's the other blessing about my current job, I get to be home at 5pm instead of 6:45pm or so every night. I get weekends, and I don't have to check my fucking email all evening and weekend. I do get time with them now, and it means a lot. Just like AAAS was a good place and time when the kids were young and needed doctor trips, now my current place allows me time to be with them.
4:15am. I should get to bed here. Busy day tomorrow with leaves and chuck-e-cheese and all that...
CZ
She is getting so much bigger now, with her own little personality. I don't know, they seem to go from bags of flour to little people to amazingly interesting people with their own thoughts and viewpoints so fast. I'm doing my best to savor her, as I did with Dylan and Tara. They are different people as well, and it's good to keep getting to know them again as they grow and change.
Dylan is turning into a pretty good person, he helps me outside with the leaves, does a pretty darn good job with the tractor, and part of the reason I like taking him to his TKD class is I can listen to him for a bit and see some of life through his eyes. He's amazingly stable, levelheaded, with a hilarious undercurrent of wit, I think he likes to have life figured out.
Tara is really nuts, but I love watching her think. She jumps to some of the most intuitive conclusions about things, often blurted out of the blue. She's exceptionally smart, I look at some of her homework and am amazed at what she's doing but at the same time she still has a childlike innocence that I wonder when it will go away and she will become a teen or something. Every year at the pool I am totally ok with her wearing an Amish swimsuit, or baggy clothes to school or whatever. There will be plenty of time for her to be a bombshell. I'm enjoying her exactly as she is, smart and funny and my sweetie...
They're changing, and I get to be a part of it. Maybe that's the other blessing about my current job, I get to be home at 5pm instead of 6:45pm or so every night. I get weekends, and I don't have to check my fucking email all evening and weekend. I do get time with them now, and it means a lot. Just like AAAS was a good place and time when the kids were young and needed doctor trips, now my current place allows me time to be with them.
4:15am. I should get to bed here. Busy day tomorrow with leaves and chuck-e-cheese and all that...
CZ