Sometimes being a dad means doing ridiculous things.
Like warming up plastic food in a toy microwave.
Eating the same plastic food. But you really have to enjoy it an make all the right noises.
And then washing it all down with a nice cup of tea (I’m not sure why she got some real stuff and I had to make do with pretend).
And after all that she asked my “Why didn’t you sit on a chair Dada?”
What ridiculous things do you do for your kids?
This week was a bit of a slow one for me. I only really ticked two things off the list. A number of things have been removed from the list, but technically I was only responsible for two of them.
On Saturday morning Marla heard a truck pull up next door. The neighbour had been doing some brickwork at his house and had hired someone to remove the rubble. Marla shouted to me and I asked nicely if they could not take the tiles and the rest of our building rubble from the kitchen renovations. So I can’t really take any of the credit for those.
So, this weeks honeydo list:
Did you knock anything off your list this week?
What is a blog?
Wikipedia says this “A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video”
So, OK Marla’s blog is not a real blog, because it is not a website. It is a wall in our house. But it is maintained by an individual, it has regular entries, and contains graphics.
And IMHO it showcases my wife’s amazing talent.
This particular ‘blog’ has chronicled the first year of our first child’s life. Here is month 2.
Do you have a ‘blog’ at your house?
I was sitting at the computer, Marla was crafting, CJ was in her room playing tea-party with her teddies.
Or so we thought…
Do you have a cheese monster? Some other kind of monster?
Just as ‘synapticlight‘ feared for himself, last weeks post came back to bite me in the bum.
It seems Marla took it as a personal challenge.
If you don’t know what the honeydo list is, check this out.
Before I post this weeks list, I promised some clarifications in this weeks edition.
There are no real hard and fast rules about how long things can stay on the list, although I do find that if things stay on the list for too long I start to get ‘subtile’ reminders (I fully expect the bag of papers on this weeks list to land on my desk if it is still on the list this time next week).
Some jobs are rather large and require a fair amount of planning and preparation, sometimes the weekend’s activities dot allow for much progress (I spent 3 hours standing around in a shop on Saturday morning waiting for the bed (point two of this weeks list) to be packed up), so a fair amount of leeway is often allowed.
OK, so with no further ado, this weeks list
What does your list look like?
Chrystina is soon going to have a little sister.
We have heard how traumatic the arrival of the second child can be on the first born, so we decided to ‘graduate’ her from the baby room to her own room.
With the new room she gets a new bed. Now she already has a bed, so his one had to have something a little special. The bed part is identical to the one she has now so in the future we can make bunk beds out of them.
I spent the afternoon putting the bed together.
Starting out - The spare room
The kit (and the 'handlanger')
Laying out the pieces
And a little help
Then a rest (yes that is bubble wrap)
Pieces complete now to stack them
stacked, ladder and slats
Add the 'tent', mattress and duvet
She loves it
The pictures don’t come lose to communicating just how excited she was about this whole thing.
“I just don’t get what the big deal is about blogging!” Ok that is not a direct quote but it is kinda how Marla feels about blogging.
But I think she is a closet blogger. This is the wall in the passage just outside the living room.
Marla's Blog
Marla as spent the last 10 months putting this together.
One page per month for the first year of CJ’s life.
So here is the first one.
Enjoy!
Chrystina's first month (starting 29 May 2006)
Marla is pretty talented, isn’t she?
I have a list. A list of things to do. It is a system that Marla and I have developed so that things get done.
I have this annoying habit (according to Marla) of not doing things immediately after I have been asked to do it, I’ll do it, but in my own time. Add to that the propensity to forget the word-of-mouth requests, and sometime things just don’t happen.
This either ends in Marla asking again and again (which feels like nagging to both of us), the thing not being done or Marla giving up and doing it herself.
None of those three helps a marriage work. So enter the Honeydo list…
Short for “Honey please do this for me”. Marla writes the thing on a list that lives on the fridge and I am responsible for doing it and crossing it off the list.
In this weekly post you, the reader, get to hold me accountable to the Honeydo list.
At the beginning of the weekend:
As I am the world’s most gifted procrastinator most of these were done just before writing this up. As of right now the list looks like:
Oh and just so that there is no misunderstanding, this is a rolling list, I am allowed to leave things over for next week (or next month).
Do you have a list? How does your system work?
For the past 2 years (or so) Saturday mornings have been about one thing.
Keep Chrystina happy.
Actually in the beginning it was about Marla and I escaping the confines of home and the boredom of a child who obviously needed a lot of distraction.
We used to visit the Mugg & Bean every Saturday for breakfast, but have had to cut back on that drastically over the past months.
This morning started (for me, Marla was up a bit earlyer) with Noddy at 07:30 and then this:
Chrystina 'cooking' breakfast
Chrystina is cooking us breakfast.
Tina is asleep now and we are planing to go swimming at my Mom’s later.
Do you have a routine or do things just happen?
What do your saturdays look like?
