In confluence of events-some real, some personal, some probably imagined by me I took today as a WFH (work from home for the uninitiated). And overall, it was a pretty productive day work wise, and the extra hour or so I got to sleep really helped after a really long day yesterday.
Since I was home all day, I gave the sitter the day off, so it was just the girls and me all afternoon. I handled the Hebrew carpool, a quick run to Staples to begin the science fair project and I made dinner.
I think it was the first time in months the girls and I had a nice quiet meal at home during the week-kind of like a traditional family where we were able to talk about school, the day and whatever else.
An interesting and random subject that came up started with 11.5 asking, “Do you like or hate birthdays?” Now, I struggle with birthdays for well documented reasons, and I also have told the girls I will give them a straight up answer to a question-so for the birthday question, the hard truth is out.
One of the interesting dynamics about both girls is they tend to go to extremes. Since I have issues with my birthday it must radiate to all birthdays-and it doesn’t. There was also discussion about all adults and if they hated (or didn’t like their birthdays).
I actually miss being able to just sit around the dinner table and have a conversation with the girls. There are a lot of tradeoffs to being a single parent, commuting 3.5 hours plus a day and trying to be present as much as possible. One of those trade offs is being able to sit down to dinner-it’s a trade-off for the comfort of living where we do with the friends around us, and one I am willing to make.
But still it’s nice to every now and then to step back and just catch up.
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