I know people are said to do the single parenthood thing every day and they do just fine. My hat is off to them where ever they may be. today there will be no more dorky attempts at being witty, so I'm ditching the whole captain's log stuff. Yesterday's post reflects the amount of spare time I had at the end of yesterday. I literally collapsed last night at around 10:30 and slept like a baby until the alarm went off. The only reason I have time to write tonight is because I have to do something to keep myself awake while the laundry is finishing the kids socks for tomorrow. Amy made sure that the kids had enough socks to last for the trip, but apparently, one of our kids wears like six pairs a day or something and can't find any socks for tomorrow. I had a hard time getting to sleep the night before without Amy being there with me, but I'm sorry Amy, last night: not a problem. Although everything went off without a hitch yesterday, I sorely missed having the organizational effect that Amy has in our house. The funny thing is, Amy so doesn't consider herself organized. I was a little late getting home from work yesterday but was able to catch our kids before they had to go to the neighbors house. After that everything went pretty smoothly (I hope) for the kids. We even had family home evening. Daddy did the tired lesson where you make sugar cookies and explain to the kids how every part of our family is like an ingredient in the cookie. If you leave one out you don't have good cookies and every part is important no matter how small one may think it is. Mostly they just liked the dough. After daddy explained about cookie dough we had a long discussion about the importance of mommies and how much we take them for granted and afterward ate the cookies and talked about mommy and the surprise party for her that we are going to give her. Poor kids. I don't think they realize that mommy will be getting home around midnight and I'm not sure anybody's going to feel like a party then, but I've made the mistake of underestimating their ability to stay awake before and I'm going to just go along with the flow. That was how yesterday went. Not bad at all even if I do say so myself.
Today however seems to be a little different somehow. You know how in the movies when someone is dangling from a cliff and hanging desperately to a piece of rope? Suddenly and imexplicably, the rope begins to start fraying and you can see the strands begin to strain and break one at a time. One by one the little strands begin to fray and the hanger-on begins to worry a little bit more. Today is that rope. I really miss my wife today. Not just for the obvious reasons either. I have really started to appreciate the things she does for our family. She called last night while we were eating the family cookies and she sounded like she was having such a good time. We all got to talk to her including the 17 month-old who alternated between looking at the phone and putting it up to her ear to hear mommy's voice. Well that's probably all I have time for today, it sounds like the dryer is done. Hopefully the kids will have all the socks they need tomorrow and I will get a little rest tonight because tomorrow there will definitely be . . . more to follow
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