Well, Chrissie’s made it to the coast. She’s out of town for a weekend craft-a-way with Kat. They’ll be knitting \/ Sewing \/ Quilting it up at the coast from Friday Night – Sunday so I have the kids this weekend.<\/p>\n
Everything went easy Friday night. After dinner out, where Chrissie and Kat left to the beach afterwards, we came home, walked Artie (in which we go 1\/2 as far but it takes twice as long as a normal walk) but on the PJs, read books and it was off to bed. I’ll admit to bribing them with “morning” TV if they went quietly into the good night. This was quite devious of me since I was planning on snuggling in bed and doing “morning” TV anyway but I figured a good lever shouldn’t go to waste.<\/p>\n
I was amazed at how little I cared about the schedule when I was running the show. On a typical night I get home from work, we eat dinner, have some playtime then go PJs, books, bed – bing bang boom. I’m usually watching the clock the whole time. “can’t play too long if we have bath,” “gotta get Leina down so she’s not grumpy in the morning,” “need to get this done tonight.”<\/p>\n
But last night was very strange. I guess I didn’t care about the time ’cause I knew, with the dog walk, I was going to blow the schedule anyway. It was very liberating. I let Leina put on her own PJs (at her own schedule), we read extra books, sang extra songs and it was all ok. I knew I didn’t have anything to do Friday night except goof around online – I couldn’t work in the shop since I had to be available for emergencies – so I didn’t really have to a keep to a schedule. Only once Leina was down and put to bed did I realize it was 8:30pm – 1\/2 an hour past the routine bedtime! But the kids didn’t have any ill effects this morning and the world didn’t end. Maybe well make Friday nights a traditional “stay up and smell the roses” night?<\/p>\n
Of course, in all my activity last night I forgot to do the dishes. There they were waiting for me in the morning, all crusty and gross. Ugh. How could my wife have left without cleaning the kitchen? Sneaky dear, sneaky \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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