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We survived our first winter break. Kids go back to school today and adults back to work.
It's been nice in quite a few ways, but primarily not having to wake up the whole household at 630 -- reluctant daughter and wife included -- and getting that extra hour or two most mornings to myself. Sure, Baby Doore was often up in the middle of the night, eating into those hours, or up early in the morning, but it was still at least lowkey. He could play on the floor next to me for a bit, which he did.
I don't know if I'm going to maintain my journaling now that I haven't as much morning time. One of my goals for this year is to be intentional with the little time I do have -- but using this time to gather my thoughts instead of hopping from Twitter to Tumblr to Discord to Gmail to Twitter to Tumblr ad nauseam is part of that.
Yesterday I took Dr Lady for a long walk and we (mostly) hashed out the next six months, only for the most major of that (a June trip to England, sob sob) to be overturned as soon as we got home. Sigh. Mortals plan, gods laugh, etc. But it was still nice to actually talk to her.
We might have to schedule a catch-up or something on the regular, because it's too easy to let the weeks slip by without actually *talking*. Back in the Arizona days, we'd go for 2, 3 mile walks together if not every morning then very close to it. Or we'd at least walk together to the bus stop. Now, by the time all the kids are up and ready to go, and she's up and ready to go, we both had to have been at work 30min earlier. Then I only see her again when she's come home with the kids, so rinse and repeat.
Not that we can't talk with the kids around, but, well. Have you tried to talk with kids around? Plus there's just something about being able to dig a bit deeper because you're both out, walking, with no one and nothing else around.
Something we could both use again.
It's been nice in quite a few ways, but primarily not having to wake up the whole household at 630 -- reluctant daughter and wife included -- and getting that extra hour or two most mornings to myself. Sure, Baby Doore was often up in the middle of the night, eating into those hours, or up early in the morning, but it was still at least lowkey. He could play on the floor next to me for a bit, which he did.
I don't know if I'm going to maintain my journaling now that I haven't as much morning time. One of my goals for this year is to be intentional with the little time I do have -- but using this time to gather my thoughts instead of hopping from Twitter to Tumblr to Discord to Gmail to Twitter to Tumblr ad nauseam is part of that.
Yesterday I took Dr Lady for a long walk and we (mostly) hashed out the next six months, only for the most major of that (a June trip to England, sob sob) to be overturned as soon as we got home. Sigh. Mortals plan, gods laugh, etc. But it was still nice to actually talk to her.
We might have to schedule a catch-up or something on the regular, because it's too easy to let the weeks slip by without actually *talking*. Back in the Arizona days, we'd go for 2, 3 mile walks together if not every morning then very close to it. Or we'd at least walk together to the bus stop. Now, by the time all the kids are up and ready to go, and she's up and ready to go, we both had to have been at work 30min earlier. Then I only see her again when she's come home with the kids, so rinse and repeat.
Not that we can't talk with the kids around, but, well. Have you tried to talk with kids around? Plus there's just something about being able to dig a bit deeper because you're both out, walking, with no one and nothing else around.
Something we could both use again.
