This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
A Saturday in the Life
Feb
6
2012
Here is a summary of a recent Saturday – a day in the life of Some Guy. You could consider it to be somewhat typical.
- Get awakened by a child
- Get breakfast for the kids
- Say goodbye to wife, who is off to brunch with a friend
- Acquiesce to the kids’ pleas to watch Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Get Delta down for his nap
- Start organizing clutter on my nightstand
- Find an escrow overpayment refund check from mortgage company
- Read the fine print and find out that the check expires on Sunday, when the banks are not open.
- Look at the clock and see that it is 11:30 and the wife has the minivan so there’s no way I’m getting to the bank before noon.
- Find out that the banks are now open until 1:00 on Saturdays.
- Call wife and find out she has just left brunch and will be home by noon.
- Breathe a sigh of relief and a thank-you prayer.
- Start lunch for the kids
- Eat my own lunch
- Go to the bank
- Play outside in the snow with the older kids
- Make hot chocolate for them. Do not forget the marshmallows.
- Replace toilet seat. (This took over an hour because the old bolts had rusted over and needed to be cut off. Have you tried running a Dremel tool on the underside of a toilet seat hinge with only one foot of clearance to the wall? I went through all of my cutoff wheels – the bolt released as the last cutoff wheel broke.)
- Watch baby and set table as wife prepares dinner
- Eat dinner
- Clean dining room
- Watch DVD of some episodes of The Muppet Show season 1 with the whole family
- Put Gamma to bed
- Feed Delta
- Watch Delta crawl around
- Put Alpha and Beta to bed
- Walk Delta around until he’s drowsy
- Put Delta to bed
- Say goodnight to wife
- Internet time for myself, until I’m drowsy. And then some.
Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:42 am and has been carefully placed in the Life category.
February 6th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Sounds tiring and rewarding at the same time.
February 6th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
It’s amazing what one can find in a nightstand.
February 6th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
I’ll trade you. My weekends EXHAUST me; I’m almost thankful to go to work on Mondays.
February 6th, 2012 at 10:11 pm
Phoebe, I went through about half of the nightstand. It will be interesting to see what the other half holds.