First missed Halloween

November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

So last night was my first ever missed Halloween with my boys. By the time I got home from work, they were both sleeping. Now this is not the first time I have gotten home after they had gone off to bed. In fact since I have been reduced to 3 days a week, it’s more times than not.  I’m always in catch up mode and trying to prove my worth, so until I can find a new job, I can keep the much needed benefits and reduced pay.  But how do you explain that to a 3 and 5 year old, all they know is their daddy was not there.  Then to make matters worse, this morning I was running late for work and Joshua earnestly wanted to tell me about his night out. I had to tell him I couldn’t talk right now.  He gave me his sad face and puppy dog eyes and I about melted.

At the end of the day, I know I did what I did for them. I have never been great at finding a good work life balance, but when it comes to special occasions and weekends with my boys, I always do everything I can to not let work get in the way. I failed last night. It was the right thing to do, but it feels pretty horrible.

Filed Under: Family, Kids

I hate school Busses

October 24, 2012 by 1 Comment

Update: After talking again to Melissa, I realized I misunderstood her. He has been hitting other kids regularly. This was the first time it happened to Josh. I still hate school buses.

I hate them. I was admittedly against josh taking the bus to school. I have in because the are rebuilding his school, and there was no way for Melissa to make it to the holding school and Elijah’s preschool at around the same time. So I just found the neighborhood delinquent has been poking him and hitting regularly for awhile.   I am furious, this kid is 4 years older than my son. On the one hand I feel bad for this kid because he is simply unparented. He was been allowed to roam around our neighborhood unwatched since he was at least 4.

I have personally talked to this kid’s mom before. He rides out into the street without looking, no helmet of course. I have almost run him over a couple of times because of behavior like that – shooting out into the road out of the middle of nowhere, between bushes. My first encounter with this kid was having to slam on my breaks as I rounded a corner because this 4 year old (at the time) kid was sitting crisscross apple sauce in the middle of the road right around the bend.  I tell his mother about it. Her response was “what am I supposed to do, chain him to a chair, [redacted] is [redacted], he does what he wants, there is no controlling him. I should have called social services, then and there.

Filed Under: Kids, Parenting

Overdue

September 24, 2012 by 4 Comments

Sorry I have fallen a bit off of the blogoshere, both here and visiting great blogs. Between trying to cram 5 days worth of work into 3, job hunting the other 2 days, and trying to finalize Egret the Elephant volume 1, there hasn’t been as much time for, well, anything.  Most importantly I would like to say happy anniversary to my wonderful wife Melissa who has been instrumental in editing Egret. To give an update on that, we have all but the last two stories (5 of 7) completely ready to go. I am going to do a soft release. Once the final two stories are edited, the eBook version will launch first.  The reasons for that is two fold. First it will give me a chance to give out some review copies, and hopefully build some hype, and secondly I’m finding the formatting of the trade paperback to be a little more challenging than I first predicted. But I guess it will be one or two weeks until we see the ebook.

My running is suffering right now. I managed to hurt my hip in a 1/2 marathon the other week. Running has been a challenge. I am in a lot of pain after about 4-5 miles and have to stop.  I’m hoping this is a shoe issue, they are well past their wear date. Anyways I am going to keep my miles low and times slow until my hip is healed.

I got the new iPhone 5. Thank you Dad for the belated birthday present. For the record it was belated only because the release date was a month or so after my birthday.  The phone is amazing but a bit of a battery hog. But that could partly be because I can’t stop playing with it. It is a beautiful phone and it is fast, both in processing speeds and the new LTE data is unbelievable. There are actually parts of my house (far away from the router) that it is faster to shut of the wifi and use LTE.  Passbook will be very cool once there are more compatible cards/apps. Frustrating that cases are hard to come by and I have to drag the one power cord I have with me everywhere. But even though it is a pain right now, I do like the new smaller adapter. It’s reversible and seems more sturdy.

The kids are doing great. Josh loves Beverly Farms and Sunday school at the Chabad. So far I am really thrilled with the learning he is getting from the Chabad though I feel like I am going to have to work extra to keep his critical thinking skills on tack when it comes to science. We had a long talk after he said there weren’t any unicorns anymore because they missed Noah’s Ark. I struggle with wanting him to have that Jewish identity and still see the beauty in science.  But I have been mostly able to walk that line and I hope he will as well.  Elijah is doing very well in his third year at Beth Sholom. They both have their moments but at the end of the day I think Melissa and I are wonderfully lucky parents to have two amazing kids.

Filed Under: Birthday, iPhone, Job Hunting, Judaism, Kids, running, Skeptic
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