Life without a wife and kids.

So...I'm done with my two Business Research classes and now I am onto another class. This is logically easy class called Organization Communication but it's 2 weeks long, Monday through Friday, 5pm - 10pm, and I have to put in the time.

This has Kelli very worried, understandably, about basically being a single parent especially around bed time. So she stayed at her parents last night with the girls to simplify her life.


Here is where I get to experience life without a wife and kids.
I got out of class early, 9pm. With no one at the house I went home and grabbed the milk jars from the house to get more from Farm Fresh. This only took 20 minutes so now it's 9:20.

So I cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the fridge, did the dish's, straightened up the dinning room, and straightened up the living room, now it's only 10pm.

So, I had leftovers and a beer while I played 1 hour of MLB 09 on PS3.

Bed time at 11pm, and this is early by the way.

After a restless night of sleep I woke up 5am, before my alarm went off, and couldn't go back to bed.

So, I took the dog out and ran several miles. Came back, showered, got ready for work, and traveled the 45minutes to work by 7am.

While it was very productive and leisurely, it was way to quite....Can't wait to see the girls!

Release

When work is stressful, you can go home to get away...
When school is stressful, you can go home or go out to get away...

Where do you go when you have stressful work, and stressful school?


yeah...away.

Carpool #8: More Then Meets the Eye

I was on my way to work today. The area of interest is a couple miles stretch with nothing but fields on either side.
It was in this area that I saw a flash of light that my brain first registered as the yellow flashing light on a garbage truck, since I had seen one earlier in the morning because today was our trash day. I looked around confused for the source of the light. Nothing.


A second later, I saw another flash of light except this time it looked more like lightning or more of a white light. I thought how odd that first flash was but then thought, well it is supposed to rain today so I thought nothing then of the flashing lights.


A few seconds more time had passed and now I am away from the area the flash’s first occurred. I looked in my mirror and see sparks shooting up and showering down to the ground as a transformer is getting cooked in vast changing array of bright colors. Now it all makes sense. Still, it’s definitely a weird way to start Monday.

OHhhhh

Allie just got over having a high fever. It’s obvious when she’s sick because she gets whiny and clingy for several days. I put her down for a nap at 1:30 and she slept to 5:30. When she woke, Allie was all smiles again with lots of energy. The down side is that she was not quick to fall asleep at her 8:30 bed time. Instead she fought sleeping until 10:30.

I tried rocking her to sleep which she fought so I laid her down. Once Allie continued to cry/fake sob Kelli went in but gave up to let her work out sleeping on her own around 10:00. I then went in when I heard hear playing with the mobile. Indeed she was standing and playing so I laid her down and rubbed her back for little bit. She started to close her eyes so I started to leave. Allie, thinking I was gone, stood up to play with the mobile some more, so I walked back over. Surprised to see me and knowing she was busted, Allie gave a disappointed “oh”, like the “oh” you give if someone said they were winning a race and tripped at the very end and lost the race….yeah that “oh”.

I just laid her back down and walked out quickly because I was holding in laughing from her perfectly expressed “oh”. Surprisingly she did stay down and was out rather shortly.

How Embarrassing

Evidently I came down with something recently. It's called shingles, and it starts off with a burning pain that you can't locate (typically on one side of the body). It then turns up as a little rash of the chicken pox virus we all had when we were little.

Turns out that virus doesn't go away, it just lays dormant until someones body immune system gets weak (typical older people), or the person becomes stressed out.

I'm going with the stressed out. In my defense I'm not running around going "I'm stressed, I can't take it." I bottle it up. Anyone want to go for a run with me?

Normal Day

Here is a picture that sums us up. I am tired. Allie is excited about something. Emma is bewildered. Kelli is behind the scenes keeping us in order.


By the way this picture was taken when we had approximately 8" of snow that night.

Update: Allie/Emma

Allie Update:
We got a couple inches of snow on 26 Jan 2009 in our area. Since this is her Allies first decent snow with a steady stream of big flakes where she can walk around, I took her outside. As soon as I set her down she froze and let the snow hit her face and just looked at me and smiled. Soon we got to walking around for an estimated 10 minutes. She had a stick and scratched at the snow, only to move onto to another area and repeat. She kept saying "Ho, Ho". It was awesome.

Emma Update:
Later this same night at 11:00 p.m., as I was doing homework. Kelli wanted Emma to stay awake so she put her on the floor next to me, on her belly. Let me preface, before I continue that Emma rolled over on our bed the previous night as I was folding laundry. Kelli was shocked but I played it down to the fact she was on a soft surface, and she couldn't do that on more firm surface. So she starts grunting and fussing then starts moving and rolls over and is calm. We were shocked becasue she's not 3 weeks old yet. So I chalk that up to an accident. I roll her over and Kelli and I watch as she repeats the same process but rolls over onto the other side. Oh, boy! Kelli thinks she is going to be athletic. I think she's part male anyway because she has a hairy back and hairy shoulders...poor girl. A third attempt was made but she started falling asleep when she found her hand and started sucking.

So that's the update.

Emma

Emma in the new sling Kelli purchased.

Emma Joy

Born: Emma Joy
07 Jan 2009
10:54 a.m.
9lb 7oz