Tidy Husband

Eligible for the seniors discount and the Happy Meal deal at the same time.

  1. A quiet night is all right.

    My posts have been getting lighter these past few days because there’s not much going on.

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    It’s a Monday. She had a new student in her class today that she was excited about until she realized that she knows the kid from her Ninja Class so that was a bit of a disappointment.

    She did come home from school today with the annual fundraiser details. For all the aunts and uncles and grandparents, consider this a warning.. The phone call for sponsoring the laps she has to run is coming. It’s a buck a lap this year - even the 2nd grade doesn’t dodge inflation.

    She did ask if she could give all the savings she had to the school today and we told her that it’s very nice thought but she should think about it. We haven’t heard since. q

    After last night’s late late night, the deal this evening was dinner, then bed.

    And she did. I told her to toss her PJ’s on and get the teeth brushed and then she can fart around and listen to stories all she wants - and she did.

    About 8pm she asked for a tuck-in and that was it - the end of the Monday.

    The photo you see above is her in her tent that I made her with the sheet on her bed.

    She was thrilled and squealed with delight when I turned on the reading light and shone it through the sheet to make a soft pink glow in there.

    I’m told this has to stay until Halloween like this.

    We shall see - I told her.

    I can’t get at her with this new setup. She crawls in, and then I toss in the requested stuffed animals and blankets and that’s it - just the other day I talked about how I love the bedtime chats we had been having, but for the time being they’re gone because she’s got a tent and imagination to keep her occupied.

    For tonight at least.

    Tomorrow is a whole new story.

    Until Next Time, TH and Co.

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  2. Breach of Trust

    I blame myself.

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    She was supposed to be in bed an hour ago. She was downstairs saying goodnight and then I told her to go to bed as it was late already.

    I assumed that this would actually happen and she would brush her teeth and go to bed. I forgot she’s not on voice command and needs steering still - kind of the same as these self driving cars - technically it can work but you just can trust it completely.

    I went upstairs for something and I realized that OMG WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING UP?.

    I am listening to stories, she tells me.

    It’s way too late for stories and I have one to tell you - it’s called GO TO BED.

    The end.

    Wish me luck tomorrow morning folks. It’s not going to be pretty

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  3. Another NEW Playground

    I don’t have any idea what is going on with city budgets but all of a sudden we have multiple parks from which to choose from within a mile from home.

    Today the plan was to do nothing. We partied all weekend last weekend due to BW’s birthday so this weekend the plans were to do as little as possible.

    Of course, we did the opposite and the child was outside most of the day. We were just going to go to a different park with a playground that’s behind the public library but then we saw it from a distance.

    ANOTHER NEW PLAYGROUND. It’s white and blue paint still shiny from not being snowed on and baked in the sunshine for decades like other parks.

    How did we find this park ? From climbing a freaking mountain - that’s how.

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    I climbed that hill. I keep reminding her I’m the older Dad. Old Dads nap. Old Dads do not climb mountains.

    I CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN

    I have no idea why the “mountain” is there. If I had to guess when they built the park they had a bunch of leftover dirt and just made a pile and threw some grass seed on it and now it’s used by little girls to fly down

    So…playgrounds.

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    This new blue park has all the things - monkey bars and swings and towers to climb and most importantly a very annoying bell to ring.

    The city really has too much money.

    The only thing this playground is missing is the whistle.

    Until Next Time,

    TH and Co.

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  4. Swinging

    I had just got in the door and the plea started:

    “Can I go to the park?”

    “Sure” I told her.

    She clarified: “I want you to push me on the swings”

    I did not want to push on the swings. I wanted to sit down.

    Tears happened.

    I pushed on the swings.

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    It turns out I really enjoy our afternoons on the swings in the park. She tells me about her day in between the pleas to go higher and higher.

    I know that the school had to turn around the bus today because they forgot a kid, there’s a new kid in the classroom on Monday and that she’s one of the shorter kids in her class and it was noisy in the class this week when the substitute teacher was there.

    If you ask me, you can’t go much higher than that. :)

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  5. DOH RAY ME

    She came into the house excited about one thing:

    Music. It is all about the music tonight. It always has been here. We don’t have music on all the time but she loves to dance and we’ve played tiny dancer more than we would like to talk about here.

    But today she learned that you could make music and I wasn’t there to see it but I bet minds were blown because she came downstairs with her new music book with notes:

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    We had an early dinner and then that’s the last I saw of her as she was glued to her Alexa device and singing her heart out for the rest of the evening until it was time to get tucked in.

    It must be a wonderful thing to learn every day and have the light bulbs go off inside your head..1.

    Tonight when I tucked her in I explained that blankets don’t come with heat but they trap the heat that your body makes and that’s how she stays warm at night under the covers.

    I didn’t know eyes could go that wide.

    Then she told me that the 3rd graders get to sing in a chorus.

    A chorus. I don’t think I’m ready for chorus practice at home

    Until Next Time,

    TH and Co.

    1. As opposed to my light bulb that’s pretty dim these days. ↩

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