week in review – november 14-18

anykind. anytime. anyplace.

monday
day off. worked out at ungodly hour. got kids to school. groceries. some other stuff i can’t remember. tried to take care of sick wife. scored 2 goals at hockey. ice cream. bed. 8/10

tuesday
got up at an ungodly hour to read. got a kid to school. back to work. meetings times a lot. forgot about sick wife. sanded built in shelves. cleaned office fish tank. bed. coughed up sawdust. 8/10

wednesday
up at an ungodly hour to workout. family walk to schools. reading and writing at the library. took home useful books. tried to pay better attention to sick wife. weekly confession. dishes. board meeting. good falling asleep talk with sick wife. 7/10

i wish it was that easy

thursday
didn’t intend to get up at ungodly hour. boy up at ungodly hour. no kids to school. sick wife to blood test. back at library. returned mediocre books. arrived late to move stuff onto a truck. moved stuff off truck into storage unit. wrestled surprise piano off truck with another skinny guy and older gentleman with a bad back. home with bad knees no worse and back still in tact. killer mexican potluck. sat in friends living room. stole great expectations. to bed late. there’s a kid in my bed! solid 9/10

just like 1998

friday
slept through workout. felt only sort of bad about it. oldest to school. library then meeting with adminner then retrieved oldest from school. forgot lunch. ate popcorn. wrestled with googledocs version of ppt. sick wife to work. odd leftover combo for supper. wrestled two pint sized people and totally dominated. frittered on internet. 6/10 for most than up to 8/10 to finish off.

that about sums up the last 5.

tomorrow
up early? drive shan to work. hang with kids. dig a trench. to camp for AGM. reunite with shan! kids to bed. watch leafs. bed. projected: 9/10 if leafs win, a little less if they lose.

sunday
up early. breakfast with fam. to next. sing. preach. enjoy the peops. potluck. probably go home hungry. maybe play road hockey. do some marriage prep. projected: between 0/10 and 10/10. who knows…

a slice of my life in all it’s beautiful regularity.

the princess can swim!

my oldest wrapped up a round of swimmin’ lessons this morning. having your daughter pass her whale level with flying colours and being told to skip a level next session certainly does a dad proud.

this about sums it up.

beaming.

all fatherly ego inflation aside, the thing that makes my heart glow is how her  mother and i watched her confidence grow. water is scary place for

the ill equipped and ela’s relationship with the stuff has been rather tenuous. nerves were palpable. not anymore! although my darling still holds a healthy respect for the deeps, she knows she can kept her head above water regardless of the distance between her toes and the bottom, if only for a short time it is longer than she thinks. geesh, she’s even jumping off diving boards for nemo’s sake! this wasn’t the case just two short months ago.

i’ll be the first to say that confidence is a slippery fish. when it’s there it’s there and when it’s not, well even the easiest things feel out one’s depth. i hope it’s not a stretch to say that we’ve all had times when sureness in ourselves has all but sunk. but every once in a while, we come across something that comes easy, and life is good.

life is good here.

unloading stuff

between the rust-hole, the curb and the kijiji i am steadily regaining a functional basement.

just another sunday morning