Last Sunday, my employees and I gathered together to paint the new office. We put up primer and the first coat. Today, the second coat is going up. They are meeting at 10am to get cooking.
...I, however, won't be there.
It's like this: you need some copy punched up? Give me five minutes. Computer broken? I'm on it. Kids need motivation / distraction? I'm the man. But, um, need someone to paint without messing spraying paint everywhere like it came from a water gun? Well...
Maggie and my employees banned me from painting.
So I'll be home alone with the kids, again, while Maggie goes to the city to hang with my crew. Yesterday, she was at a job interview, and then completely crashed for the night at, like, six o'clock. So, it's a solo-childcare weekend. In fact, that's the one thing about this gig Maggie is up for... it includes two Saturdays a month, which means I'm going to have to figure out how to do two soccer games and ice hockey pretty much simultaneously.
How do single parents do it?
Love to all. Even you, fumbles.
10 comments:
You HAVE to tell me how you worked that out. I suck at painting, and still I have to do it on a regular basis. My wife thinks I'm trying to avoid it, but it's really my lack of skill.
Dude. I just SUCKED. No scheming involved.
If it makes you feel better, I've done three loads of laundry, three rounds of dishes, gone shopping cleaned the house, and am about to cook dinner. On the upside: I get to watch the playoffs.
Rock on.
I'm just finding out how hard it can be... yet somehow it is even more rewarding.
i did NOT ban you. say what you will, i never said that.
some single parents drink a lot of caffeine and cry a lot. I'm not naming names... I'm just sayin'....
How 'bout dem Cowyboys?
/muahahah
I couldn't do it... u r a much better man and father than i am.
dude, it looks like Maggie DOES read your blog!
We all have our strengths. Mine isn't spelling. And I once caught my computer on fire. but I can paint like a son of a gun.
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Thank you.
Isn't being a fully participatory father great?
I'm a soccer coach (and I hate soccer), Sunday school teacher, Girl Scout helper, blah blah blah.
I'm with you... I don't know how single parents do it.
My mom did, somehow. Tough old broad... no mistake.
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