Well, better late than never, and it’s only a day, right?
What is my Tuesday Toot? That we finally got my grandparent’s house cleaned out yesterday. (Which is actually why this post is a day late.) We got the complete house cleaned out and emptied, including getting my aunt packed and moved (though she hadn’t even packed a single thing during the past year prior to the insane house clearing.) It was overwhelming and broke all of our hearts because we ran out of room in our own houses for many of my grandparents belongings. We ended up filling a full dumpster and the equivalent of a second dumpster. We just didn’t have room for everything, but we saved the most important and sentimental things. I’m still amazed at how much was accomplished in such a small amount of time.
I just found a new blog meme thanks to a new Plurk friend. It’s called Saturday 9. Feel free to click the link to see what the current Saturday 9 are, if I haven’t already blogged about them.
In celebration of Father’s Day, this one is devoted to the4 topic of fathers.
1. How long since you have been with your dad?
It’s probably been about three months now. The last time I spent time with him was when he came down with my brother when my brother went out to prom with his then girlfriend. We got to hang out for quite a while that night, and I had a blast.
2. How many siblings share your dad?
I have two younger brothers and two younger sisters. My sister, amusingly enough is a day (ok, only 11 hours and some odd minutes) younger than my oldest son. Ok, go ahead and read that last sentence again. It will make sense eventually.
3. Will you see your dad tomorrow?
Nope. Unfortunately he lives too far away and I have to work my out-of-the-house job.
Honestly I haven’t for years. Writing this makes me feel really guilty about that. I’ll probably get a card and send it to him Monday. It’s the thought, right? (Off to my corner now to berate myself for being a bad daughter….)
5. Have you ever had a tough time in your relationship with your father?
I had a worse relationship with him as a child. He was a more scary figure when it came to punishment. At the same time though, he was always there for me and a good friend. He helped me get through some rough family times with humor. Now our relationship more similar to friendship than father-daughter.
6. What was the last thing that you did with your dad?
Hung out with him while my brother and his then-girlfriend went to prom. Didn’t I already answer a question like this? LOL
7. Growing up, was your dad tough on you?
Yes, and no. Depended on what it was about. If it was something he felt strongly about, such as my choice of attire he would um…. strongly object. I felt that at 14 I could walk out of the house in a half top or a bandanna top, and he thought it wasn’t appropriate. Looking back, I must admit that I can see his point.
Off and on. We are both so busy nowadays that it’s hard to connect. We used to talk once a week, but things have been so hectic that neither one of us have called the other in a while. I’d have to say it’s a good month when we connect every other week or so.
9. How long since you have spoke to him?
I talked to him a couple weeks ago on the phone. He called to let me know that my brother was going through a rough time. I really haven’t talked to him since then.
Well, that’s it for me. I hope everyone has a great Father’s Day!
Here are the top ten that I have found most attitude altering (in no particular order):
1. No matter the love you have felt before, your love for your child will eclipse it.
2. If you’ve just put on clean clothes something will make it necessary to change. (Baby spit up, food, mud, some unnamed substance you really don’t want to know what it really is….) The same is true when children get dressed up to leave the house.
3. Each child is different, and each child is different from moment to moment. (This is especially true of what foods they like. If I had a penny for the number of times I have heard “But I don’t like that!” even if it’s something they couldn’t get enough of the day before.)
4. It doesn’t matter how clean your house is, within 5 minutes of children returning it will look like you haven’t cleaned it in a year.
5. Anytime you sit down to do something for yourself, you are guaranteed to have a life threatening emergency of biblical proportions. (Such as a splinter in a little finger, someone spilled milk, child one accidentally spit while talking and it hit child two, etc.)
6. If you put something in one spot it will be gone in the space of five seconds.
7. It doesn’t matter how many socks go in the dryer, you will always end up with an odd number and at least 5 socks that have no match.
8. If something spills, breaks, disappears, etc and try to find out who is responsible the culprit is always “not me” no matter who you ask. (Personally I think Not Me should start paying rent. I’ll bring that up if I ever find him.)
9. If you schedule a big event that involves you and the special someone in your life (husband, boyfriend, whatever) at least one of your children will come down with a bizarre mystery illness. This illness will include but will not be limited to a fever, vomiting, and/or other unknown symptoms that make it impossible for your intended evening festivities.
10. You can’t sweat the small stuff, more of it keeps cropping up. (And you’ll just go insane if you keep letting it get to you.)
Thanks MommyFest Blog Party for this great topic! I never stopped to think how much my children have taught me!
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