Hrm...Leadership without asking?

Huh...so my wife's 'mom's group' has decided we dads need a group...so they created one for us and gave a few of us admin abilities...and I have spent the last several hours approving dads and banning moms...because apparently I have moved to a leadership role without realizing that I was going to be one. Fun times!

Holy Crap!

Wow. One heck of a day. We have been looking for a new truck for a while now. Finally found one. It rocks, and Lil Man's car seats will fit in the back seat. So now we are pretty much all set for summer, just have to sell the old truck. Been having more good days with Wifey. Love it. I can't wait to have more good days with her, now that my worries about getting the truck fixed are pretty much over. That is one HUGE piece of stress off my back. Glad it is pretty much gone. School is a pain, but workable. Work is fun, but the hours suck and there is one guy on another shift who doesn't like me. Wonder if he's just jealous? We will find out Monday...lol.

Apparently...

Life wants to be difficult for me right now. I have alot going on, and sometimes it seems like too much. I've been able to handle it so far, but I am afraid I'm nearing my limit. Some of it is stupid stuff that shouldn't be giving me a headache, and others are really important. For instance, Lil Man is teething, and fussing ALOT. That is stressing Wifey out to no end, and not being here most of the time to help her gets to me. I wish I could be here more to help her out. The truck is torn down to fix the injectors, I just have to finish it because I ran out of time last weekend. Not sure if I'll get much time this weekend, but I'll try to squeeze in some time. School...wow, that has just been hectic. My online class requires a short essay and a research paper every week for 6 weeks (thankfully 2 are down), and my other class is pretty easy going, but I still don't feel as on top of it as I should. And the stupidest part, my phone's power port is broke, so I had to get a replacement. That showed up today, but won't program, and of course it came after Wifey left to help her mom out, and I won't see her again until I get home from work...which means I don't have a way to call Verizon and program my new phone, so I'm basically stuck with my ancient phone until tomorrow, even though the new phone is here today...It would be so much easier if the Verizon store actually dealt with this stuff instead of pawning it all off on the over-the-phone stuff. Anyway, enough complaining. I'm off to get around for work. Later ya'll.

Time Flies...

Even when you aren't having fun. Things have been so incredibly hectic the last few weeks, with classes beginning again, spring opening its doors and adding outdoor activities that need to be done (mowing, etc). The truck still is acting up, though I have it torn down and have all the parts to repair it. So hopefully one of these next few days that gets finished. Then on to other projects. Car needs a tune up. I've got the parts, just not the time so far. Plus I don't know if I'll be doing it or Wifey will be, since my hands and arms may not fit in the space available...goody. So I may be handing my wrenches over to her for a day and providing moral support. Need to start working more overtime. I need PLT, and the extra money would be nice too. I just have to figure out if I want to be more tired during the week, or lose 5 hours of my weekend every week. I guess I'll cross that bridge this week. I've also been having to watch my back for a particular individual at work who seems to have a thorn in his side pointed at me, even though all I do every night is show up, do my job, and go home. Dunno what I ever did to him. So Wifey and I seem to be more on the same page about everything lately. We have not been fighting nearly as much, and I think we've both been making a bigger effort to talk things out instead of yelling at one another. This is good. I like it better when we can just talk about things and understand one another, though I do need to work on the whole speaking out of turn thing...it's bad that I do it, and I need to quit. Well, off to do homework. Having to write essentially two papers a week, with one being a research paper, and none of it based on the book seems a little ridiculous, but apparently form classes cannot be changed. Oh well.

Well here we go

Still getting used to a blog. We had a better weekend since I took a day off and got a few things done. Oil changes done, truck back together (but still burning oil a little, I think. Gotta keep an eye on it), and things at work seem to have settleddown for now. As long as the retards on days don't screw it up. Anyway, that's about it for now. Hope it keeps getting better.

Another day in paradise

Been a while. I used to be good at updating things like this. Not so much so anymore.

Anyway, it's been a rough few weeks. Fought with the Wife, issues with other employees at work. And of course Little Man. Some nights he sleeps great, others he doesn't want to. Lately he doesn't want to eat. She has a book that says he could be entering his next stage of development...oh goody. Hopefully it passes quickly, but apparently it may not. Oh well, I will adapt and we will all get through it.


Cars are giving me a headache too lately. Truck burning oil, car and suv need an oil change...blah. I'll get it figured out. Need to hang a fan and pick one up for Little Man's room. Should be fun.

...wow

So it's been one heck of a weekend. Little Man has been both a joy and a trial all weekend. His fussy times came earlier and lasted much longer, though tonight was actually better. I thought that my relationship with Wife was doing pretty good all weekend, and she dropped a bit of a bombshell on me tonight. Apparently I did not thank her for some things she did for me the last few days, though I thought I had. Can't argue, I don't actually remember telling her thank you or showing her that I appreciated it, so I probably didn't.

Tonight I held on to Little Man and played with and cared for him so she could try something new - she cooked all of this week's dinners tonight because she doesn't really have time during the week. Makes perfect sense, and I tend to get in her way in the kitchen when she is cooking so I wanted to stay out of the way. I did try to put on a Moby wrap to carry Little Man around so I could try to get a few things done, like laundry and some homework, but I apparently did something wrong the first time. He screamed, and so I pulled him back out and didn't try again for a few hours because I was afraid of hurting the little dude.

He and Wife mean so much to me, and I don't do nearly enough to show it to her. I have been trying, but she pointed out tonight that out of five examples of nice things done for her, three were for sure her idea and one of them could go either way because she has talked about it for quite a while. Again, not something I can really argue with, but I get confused. How am I supposed to know what nice thing she would appreciate most if she doesn't tell me? And I don't mean by hinting around at it, but actually coming out and saying 'I really like this and would like to have it.' I have repeatedly missed subtle signals about something from her, and I have tried expressing that. Maybe she is hoping I will one day pick up on them, and hopefully I do. I've been trying, but I haven't been doing so hot.

Finally got Little Man to lay down and go to sleep a bit ago. Managed to get Wife to lay down, hopefully she will let me massage her with lotion now that I have the dishes mostly caught up and some laundry done. We'll see I guess.

Welcome to my blog!

Starting a little late in the parenting game, but I plan to record my thoughts on this journey of fatherhood so someday when my son is older he can read what I felt and went through as a guide for his own journey of fatherhood.