Tidy Husband

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

  1. Greetings from Great Wolf Lodge

    You guys! We are here at Great Wolf Lodge to celebrate the child’s up coming birthday 🎈 and I have a few observations so far.

    1. She was so excited this morning and of course she had no interest in going to school first.
    2. At pickup from school she talked. non stop on the way there.
    3. There sure are a lot of people here consider it’s a random Wednesday in January.
    4. We already have had the first touch for $33. May I introduce you to our new penguin light sabre with unicorn colors that shoot out bubbles at the tip

    It’s not a rainbow bubble party if you don’t have one of those.

    1. The swimming is the main attraction here and despite a very full parking lot it doesn’t seem terribly busy which is good.
    2. She has her own custom Bear Den to sleep in, which is a great idea because then you don’t have to share a bed with a child.
    3. Basically this is an overpriced Hampton INN designed for kids with a big honking water park in the middle
    4. Best quote of the day: “I’m hungry like a wolf”
    5. This is as close to Disney World as we are ever going to get.

    That’s it for now because we’re off to wolf yoga tomorrow morning bright and early before our day in the water park.

    Howling at the moon,

    TH.and co.

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  2. The Dresser

    It’s kind of ugly, but it works.

    BW was surfing Facebook and found this dresser for sale:

    The child was in dire need of a new dresser so this works. It’s just good old chipboard but it’s pretty cheap and it’s BIG for all her clothes because the dresser she had was designed for onesies and not for big girl clothes.

    So, BW goes to pick it up and it won’t fit in the Car. But despite what the news says there are good people in the world and the seller said he had no problem delivering it today. This is a pretty nice gesture as we’re about 20 minutes away.

    The fellow arrives, I hand him the money and we take the dresser to the front hall. He leaves - he’s done.

    BW and I struggle to get it up the stairs because it’s heavy chipboard full of glue and the only thing I’ve lifted recently was my coffee cup. But, we manage to get it upstairs and after a few attempts we get the drawers in the right slots and BW fills it with clothes and there’s still empty drawers which is awesome.

    I take the child’s old dresser where the drawers kind of work after being yanked on by tiny hands of destruction for 6+ years - and turn it into my tool dresser in the basement:

    Perfect - it’s an upgrade from the coffee tins I was using to store my screwdrivers. I feel like Red Green now that I have all my tools and stuff better organized.

    Done, right?

    • wife happy
    • child happy
    • dad happy

    It’s a hat trick of happiness when it comes to dressers.

    Until later tonight, I’m about to hop in the shower after the child has been put to bed and all of sudden I hear tears and crying. BW goes to check and the child tells her:

    “I miss my old dresser!”, with tears down her cheeks.

    She wants the old one back. BW tells her that it’s too late and that she can visit her old dresser downstairs anytime she wants, but it’s too late and too small. After some hugs and more explaining, the child settles down and she’s asleep and the dresser upset is over.

    We did not see that coming.

    Tonight’s lesson: Don’t f*** with the furniture.

    You have been warned.

    TH and Co.

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  3. Yet ANOTHER Snow Day Tomorrow

    Lord help us.

    Today was MLK Day - so no school. Okay, we can live with a long weekend. No problem.

    Photo by Alexey Elfimov on Unsplash

    Overnight we got some snow - about six inches. We’re in Buffalo people - we can deal with a bit of snow. The plows came and plowed the streets and then heck even my Amazon order got delivered today so we figured that she would go to school tomorrow because if I got my crap from China delivered then surely the School Buses would be running.

    I was wrong. We are getting another day of no school

    Here’s the email I received:

    After closely monitoring the weather and travel conditions throughout the afternoon and evening, and in consultation with Erie County officials, local law enforcement, and our neighboring school districts, we will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday, January 20th) due to the combined impact of the winter storm.

    You Guys, this will be Day 4 in a row with the child at home

    Oh, sure you say - You’ve got it easy Tidy, because you don’t have a real job 1, and how hard can it be?

    Glad you asked:

    Today I had some string taped up and placed over my head where I was her “dog” and I had to walk behind her like a dog would. She wanted me to walk on all fours, but I told her “Don’t push it, Bub”

    I have danced to videos and played pretend store and have answered to the question “Hey Dad” more than anybody should in one day.

    We then had a full on meltdown because she wanted to do her homework before bed. What kind of child cries about not doing homework?

    Then there’s the “I’m bored” thing. We are all bored because even the adults would like an hour to concentrate on something rather than getting tape for a new project, or having yet another tickle fight or whatever very important thing needs to happen right now - and no you can’t go outside.

    Then there’s the dog. The dog was pacing around also complaining about the lack of entertainment as well - so I gave the dog a bone 2 and that would keep at least her satisfied.

    Nope. The dog wanted to take the bone outside, but I refused because it’s a freaking snow storm out there and then it would not remember where it buried it. It whined, complained, placed the floor and then finally I caved and let the dog outside.

    So ya. It’s been a day.

    If there’s any good news in this is we finally figured out the Nintendo Switch and she played for an hour or so. There’s complaints about it being too hard and we tell her that’s the point and she gets frustrated and stops.

    We also couldn’t figure out the buttons completely but it turns out that Dad had the protective case on backwards and once we figured that out it we were golden 3. We still have no idea how to play the games but she’s smart and she’ll figure it out.

    She played some trolls game and a bit of Pac-Man but I think the Pac-Man game is too complicated for her. She has 3 games in total and has played one for an hour and she’s already told me she wants her next game to be Minecraft. I told her let’s figure out how to play the ones we have before we go adding any more games.

    So we’re all a little testy here for different reasons but mostly the fact that we’re not supposed to have all this family time. We can’t handle all this family time. I had thought about bundling her up and tossing her outside to play in the snow but it’s too cold for that so it looks like we’re all stuck with each other for yet one more day cooped up inside.

    That Groundhog better predict an early spring is all I’m saying because I don’t think anybody in this household has another patience for another six weeks plus of winter or another day with each other.

    We can’t handle all this ~~family time.~~ love

    Stay Warm,

    TH and Co.

    1. It’s a skill. ↩

    2. hat tip to AC/DC ↩

    3. oops! ↩

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  4. Nothing Much is Going On

    Or so I thought until I started to write it all down.

    It’s easy when asked “what’s new?” to make the reply as “nothing”.

    hard at work at her new desk.

    But then I realized that during a day of “nothing” we do a whole lot and then I come downstairs to write about it.

    I’ve been writing about nothing for over a year now.

    Today, our nothing conisted of:

    • The weather is odd. I was 15 minutes away and it was sunny and bright, meanwhile here it was blizzard like conditions.
    • The child created a background using 2 big sheets of paper to hang on the wall and then did not one but two dances to songs on her phone while we clapped and cheered from the couch.
    • She painted with mommy.
    • I got asked for more tape. I gave the child yet another roll of tape
    • Mommy bought a new dresser for her room only to get there and realize that it would not fit. Because there are still good people out there, the seller is going to deliver it to us for free.
    • The robot vacuum got stuck on the mat upstairs and so the child decided she had to be on “robot watch” and got dressed into her costume because one cannot watch the robot vacuum without being properly dressed.

    • I had to dress up as well, and I had a veterinarian costume around my neck as a scarf.

    • in anticipation for the new dresser we moved a few things around and what was an end table became a “School Desk” for her to write and play as seen in the photo at the top of the page

    • I ran the robot vacuum around the entire house 1
    • I had a nap. 2
    • I washed the curtains and scrubbed a toaster oven
    • I played “make a house out of magnetic tiles” challenge where Mommy was the judge. I lost.
    • We decided that the Perogies we had for dinner needed a lot more filling in them than what they shipped with. Shrinkflation at it’s finest.
    • I have chased a little girl into the bed and told them they are not scared and they just need to go to sleep more than I would have liked tonight.
    • We planned our upcoming trip later this week. She’s so excited she could burst.
    • We had a good day today.

    So, ya. Nothing much happened today.

    Stay tuned for more “nothing” tomorrow.

    TH and Co.

    1. Because, of course. ↩

    2. Also, of course. ↩

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  5. She Cleaned Her Room

    In our house, this is news.

    It’s her space. I get it.

    Photo by Rick Mason on Unsplash

    But that doesn’t mean that she can trash the place and it would not hurt for her to pick up the socks and books and crayons and blankets and stuffed animals so we can see the floor once again.

    Yes, it was that bad.

    I missed this today because I was out, but BW duked it out with the child and won the stubborn war and for that alone BW should get an award.

    I’m told that there was just a wee bit of protesting by the child along with stomping and just an overall fit mixed with a whole lot of protest. Lesser people would have caved (me) but BW is also determined at times and the child had no idea what she was in for. Dad caves a lot faster than Mom and that was the lesson today.

    The child kicked and screamed and asked over and over again for Huggies but Mom held her ground and once all the kicking and screaming and whining stopped the child realized the futility of it all and…

    She cleaned her room.

    Then she got all the “huggies” she needed and all was well again in our universe

    When I came home I immediately ran the robot vacuum 1 because I never know if or when I will see her bedroom floor again - talk about a limited time offer.

    Today’s Lesson: Listen to your mother. It’s not worth the fight.

    Keeping it clean here,

    TH and Co.

    1. I know. I have a problem. ↩

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