Tidy Husband

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

  1. When it's Quiet It's Never Good

    If you can hear them you can monitor them.

    After dinner this evening the child disappeared upstairs and we thought she was in her room drawing or playing or some other harmless thing.

    We were wrong.

    As the title states, she was quiet and it was not good.

    It could have been a lot worse like finding scissors and cutting her own hair, but this was still a bit messy.

    I went upstairs and I heard water running in the bathroom. I turned the corner to enter the bathroom and saw 2 things.

    1. She was pantless. If I had to guess, she got water on them playing in the sink so she decided to take them off instead of thinking that this wasn’t such a good idea and she should stop before dear old dad finds her. (I found her)
    2. She had made “hot cocoa” from the sink water a few interesting ingredients:

    She has these dry erase markers that were explained to her that these markers are for the dry erase board only and not to be used for nail polish or god knows what else.

    She used them for god knows what else.

    She managed to pull all the erasers off these and was using them as marshmallows for her hot cocoa creation. She was adding “sugar” to the cocoa by trying to get the ink out of a purple magic marker.

    So ya. We’re done here. It’s bedtime - Go!

    I told her that she knows better than to play with the water anywhere unless it’s the bathtub and that playtime was over and she had to go put on her PJ’s and get ready for bed.

    Whomever started that saying of children being seen and not heard - I disagree. I would much rather hear them so I have an idea of what they’re up to without having to keep an eye on them all the time, becase that is exhausting.

    Also if anybody wants some slightly used dry erase markers that are missing the caps and the eraser part: hit me up - I’ve got you.

    Constantly mopping up messes,

    TH and Co.

    Permalink

  2. Another Day, Another Donut

    Some call this homeschooling. I call it a very long day.

    Apparently the child isn’t going to school much this month with last tuesday off for superintendent’s day and this tuesday for veteran’s day. Add 2 more days in a week for something that I have no idea what it is about - but she only goes to school 3.5 days that week.

    The week after is thanksgiving which means more days off school. This means we all have seen a lot of each other and today has been just one day with the child this week - next week there are two.

    God Help Me.

    You would think it was summer vacation, but in November.

    What I can tell you is that today this was not supposed to happen:

    Hello, Mr. Dirt Donut.

    The plan was to stay away from the donut shop because she’s had a fair bit of sweets the past few days, but we had to run an errand and figured well, seeing as how we are in the area - what the heck.

    Besides, Dad needed coffee.

    She made it halfway through that monster of a donut before she tapped out and we took the rest home to be consumed another day.

    Besides donuts and what seemed like the six times I unloaded the dishwasher today we played 2 board games multiple times, made a christmas tree and played Christmas Gifts where I had to go up to her bedroom and find some toys off the floor to put in the bag to give to her - and as I write this there’s an entire Whoville setup on the living room floor 1

    Today I have cut out little paper xmas decorations so she can glue them on her christmas house - but first I had to get the glue working out of dried off end because she never puts the caps back on the glue sticks and now there are no glue sticks in the house and that’s why we’re using school glue like barbarians.

    Its snowed another six inches overnight so I have found gloves to put on and then dried off the glvoes on the heat register to dry off, and put away sleds left outside and found a basketball in the front yard under the snow that should have been put away before it snowed.

    I have also sung along to - and watched her dance to - Santa Claus is Coming To Town - multiple times today.

    We have hit peak Christmas as far as she is concerned and we’re still weeks away. God help me.

    I know what I want for Christmas: A full week of school.

    Singing to the Classics,

    TH and Co.

    1. Actually, I have no idea what this is but she was talking about this just before dinner so I’m going with it. ↩

    Permalink

  3. The First Snow

    FYI: Christmas is NOW because there’s snow on the ground.

    We woke up to the first snow today.

    [[Assets/89bec473f19afd4a0b74b856eecc932c_MD5.webp|Open: 1b5fb1b270cc1e695c767895f6ab739c_MD5.webp]]

    We had to run to the window to see how much snow we were talking about exactly.

    Answer: Not much - about 2 inches.

    She was too excited to eat. I think she may have had 2 spoonfuls of cereal, but she gets a lunch at school so a lot of times she eats when she gets there, which is good.

    There was no trouble getting dressed even though were were cramped for time she was actually early because she wanted to get outside as fast as possible to play in the snow.

    Pink Boots, Winter Coat and cheap gloves from the dollar store and she was out the door about 7 minutes early and you think it was a blizzard with all the fun and snow tossing up in the air that happened.

    The bus rolled up and she crawled up the steps to start her day.

    When she got home from school she had it in her head that she needed to make a restaurant. The menu is a bit sparse but sometimes these are the best places to go.

    [[Assets/cf2ca80c99ac3e37d450a6a7be824a8f_MD5.webp|Open: 5b4bebf48d3a252ebf7e8dd0aff26a46_MD5.webp]]

    for those that can’t deciper, the menu reads:

    MENU

    • Hot Cocoa
    • cookie dough pudding
    • pb and banana (sandwiches, I would imagine?)
    • oranges and apples
    • coffee.

    I ordered a coffee and the apples and she seemed find with this.

    Tomorrow, she has the day off school for Veterans Day so we’ve got plans other than youtube kids all day 1

    We are going to play board games all day and then in the afternoon we’re going to have a tea party with some knoppers.

    The other morning, I get woken to: “Dad, what are noopers?”

    ummm.. I have no idea.

    She repeats it over and over again because asking again will help me usnderstand. She guides me to the pantry and she shows me this six-pack of knoppers. I guess they’re some sort of pastry/wafer thing but whatever they are we’re going to be eating them tomorrow afternoon.

    As always bedtime was a little bit of struggle. We are in the season of “just one more thing” that she wants to do before PJ’s/Teeth/Bed.

    “I just have to”…

    1. tuck in my stuffies
    2. writet this down
    3. fix my office. (she has an office?)
    4. create a game for tomorrow’s game day.

    NO.

    This is dad’s to-do list for you:

    GO TO BED!!!

    Looking for gloves that match,

    TH and Co.

    1. don’t get excited. There will be some videos still. Nobody said I was parent of the year. ↩

    Permalink

  5. Snow and Hunger Strikes

    It’s Eggnog and Christmas Carol Season Here.

    As it does in November in Buffalo - it snowed today. The forecast says “a coating to an inch” and so far they are right on target:

    the dog was less than thrilled.

    And I don’t know what happened to the child, but as soon as she realized there was snow on the ground she put 2+2 together and came up with “It’s Christmas”!!.

    Well….not yet - despite what the retailers would like you to think. We have a few more weeks until we start to seriously think about the holiday as we still have to get Thanskgiving in the rear view mirror

    But that didn’t stop her. Today she had to go outside and make snowballs with the 1/2 inch of snow we had and as all parents know - it takes 45 minutes to get them ready so she’ll be out there for 3 minutes:

    When she came in from her winter adventure she wanted to have hot chocolate but she had a lot of sweets recently so that didn’t happen.

    What did happen though is that the Dog finally ate something.

    This is big news here.

    Let me explain: On a normal evening, the dog goes into her crate when we go to bad and I latch the door and she’s out snoring for the rest of the night. But the other night she must have heard/smelled something outside and she whined and whined and whined and wanted let outside.

    Okay,fine. If you want to be out all night - knock yourself out. Have fun. I’m going back to bed.

    Well,. It seems the dog had too much of a good thing out there.. I don’t know if she found a dead animal to eat in the yard or a mouse or something but the next day, she would not eat. At first we didn’t think much of it, but then this afternoon she would still not eat.

    Crap. No way we’re calling the emergency vet on the weekend, so we we just waited and googled - The big G said to make sure she has enough water so BW and I made sure she had enough to drink by pouring some water into the dog’s cheek area and as you can guess, the dog did not like this idea much at all.

    BW put some chicken broth out for her and the dog was not interested at all. Uh-oh.

    What was the Vet’s number again?

    About an hour later BW informed me that finally, finally, finally the dog ate her dinner from 2 days ago. YAY! No Vet.

    But, let me tell you what they don’t tell you in the manual: The dog farts.

    OMG YOU GUYS - The FARTS ARE BAD. REALLY BAD.

    That’s the lesson of the day: If your dog doesn’t eat for a few days - call the vet and in the meantime have some air freshener at the ready

    As they say: this too shall pass.

    With the dog this weekend it was taken a little too literally.

    Keeping the air freshner at arms reach,

    TH and Co.

    Permalink

Every post → · RSS feed