Tidy Husband

Eligible for the seniors discount and the Happy Meal deal at the same time.

  1. Another NEW Playground

    I don’t have any idea what is going on with city budgets but all of a sudden we have multiple parks from which to choose from within a mile from home.

    Today the plan was to do nothing. We partied all weekend last weekend due to BW’s birthday so this weekend the plans were to do as little as possible.

    Of course, we did the opposite and the child was outside most of the day. We were just going to go to a different park with a playground that’s behind the public library but then we saw it from a distance.

    ANOTHER NEW PLAYGROUND. It’s white and blue paint still shiny from not being snowed on and baked in the sunshine for decades like other parks.

    How did we find this park ? From climbing a freaking mountain - that’s how.

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    I climbed that hill. I keep reminding her I’m the older Dad. Old Dads nap. Old Dads do not climb mountains.

    I CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN

    I have no idea why the “mountain” is there. If I had to guess when they built the park they had a bunch of leftover dirt and just made a pile and threw some grass seed on it and now it’s used by little girls to fly down

    So…playgrounds.

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    This new blue park has all the things - monkey bars and swings and towers to climb and most importantly a very annoying bell to ring.

    The city really has too much money.

    The only thing this playground is missing is the whistle.

    Until Next Time,

    TH and Co.

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  2. Swinging

    I had just got in the door and the plea started:

    “Can I go to the park?”

    “Sure” I told her.

    She clarified: “I want you to push me on the swings”

    I did not want to push on the swings. I wanted to sit down.

    Tears happened.

    I pushed on the swings.

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    It turns out I really enjoy our afternoons on the swings in the park. She tells me about her day in between the pleas to go higher and higher.

    I know that the school had to turn around the bus today because they forgot a kid, there’s a new kid in the classroom on Monday and that she’s one of the shorter kids in her class and it was noisy in the class this week when the substitute teacher was there.

    If you ask me, you can’t go much higher than that. :)

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  3. DOH RAY ME

    She came into the house excited about one thing:

    Music. It is all about the music tonight. It always has been here. We don’t have music on all the time but she loves to dance and we’ve played tiny dancer more than we would like to talk about here.

    But today she learned that you could make music and I wasn’t there to see it but I bet minds were blown because she came downstairs with her new music book with notes:

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    We had an early dinner and then that’s the last I saw of her as she was glued to her Alexa device and singing her heart out for the rest of the evening until it was time to get tucked in.

    It must be a wonderful thing to learn every day and have the light bulbs go off inside your head..1.

    Tonight when I tucked her in I explained that blankets don’t come with heat but they trap the heat that your body makes and that’s how she stays warm at night under the covers.

    I didn’t know eyes could go that wide.

    Then she told me that the 3rd graders get to sing in a chorus.

    A chorus. I don’t think I’m ready for chorus practice at home

    Until Next Time,

    TH and Co.

    1. As opposed to my light bulb that’s pretty dim these days. ↩

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  4. Music to our ears

    ONE

    Hey Dad!

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    She then took me over to her little Amazon device and asked me what sounds it should play while she falls asleep. She decided on a mix of babbling Brook and pink noise. Not my choices, but she happily fell asleep so I’m calling it a win.

    “Aaaahhhh, so relaxing” she said as she dozed off

    TWO

    She tells us she ran half a mile today in the gym. Also, It’s not called “gym class” as BW and I call it. We have been corrected: it’s “Physical Education”.

    “Geez, Dad..”

    THREE

    The child came off the Bus telling me that she wants to be a girl scout. I asked her how she learned of this and she tells me a girl on her bus told her about it - one of the bigger kids. I open her backpack and there’s the info sheet so this is not just some bus rumor.

    I ask her if she knew what girl scouts do?

    “Sell cookies”, she tells me.

    Ya..pretty much.

    Put me down for 3 boxes.

    Until Next Time,

    TH and Co.

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  5. The perfect time to go to bed

    It’s 8:50pm, if you’re wondering.

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    Photo by Bruno Guerrero on Unsplash

    Tonight was easy.

    She came home from school happy to see me as if she hadn’t seen me at the start of the day and after a quick snack we went to the park where we went on the swings, and we were happily swinging along and all of a sudden: BUGS!

    She’s SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS while also swinging 12 feet in the air and swiping at the bugs with one hand and hanging on with the other and all I can think is:

    I hope we don’t end up in the ER.

    I explained to her that bugs are nature and seeing as how we’re in nature there will be bugs. She didn’t buy it and wanted to get out of nature as fast as possible so we decided to go for a walk about the new neighborhood where they are still building new cardboard houses

    The highlight of our walk is that our neighbor has a cybertruck and the child is obsessed with them, so that was fun.

    I learned that my legs still work after all these years and a lap around the block is almost a mile and I burned 160 calories. Then I came inside and had a Coke so we’re all balanced out with the calories thing.

    Tonight I even managed to get a hairbrush through the big knot in the back of her head that’s been there for a few days without complaint. She still doesn’t like it but she might be realizing that sometimes the shit just needs to happen.

    Lastly, there’s the book of facts. If I get one more fact read to me about the lady with the longest fingernails or the fact that an ostrich egg is bigger than it’s brain....

    That’s just two of them. There’s 1001 of them in this book. I was read them while I was in the bathroom shaving tonight. I was read them at the table, and later when I put her to bed.

    She is fascinated by facts.

    Me? I’m concentrating on one fact: 8:50 P.M.

    The rest is just details. :)

    Until Next Time, TH and Co.

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