Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
Family health issues front & center today. Just as I start to feel normal in the normal progression of my cold (I know it is always 7 days, just try to avoid worse symptoms) poor Daniel has a horrible night of diarrhea and vomiting. Realizing and accommodating for the fact that 3 kids means 3 different personalities. Contemplating adding a Google Voice number, just to lessen complications from family calls and also playing with technology. Had a conversation about CU football today, felt sad afterwards.
Health
Monday I started feeling the cold symptoms: tired, sore throat tickle. So Tuesday, after a poor nights sleep, decided to stay home and get some rest. I try to do this when I can in order to avoid having the symptoms from the cold worsen and linger. The hardest part has been not exercising, not getting up early and going for a run/walk has felt odd, and I am already feeling a little off, lethargic from missing out. But just as I felt that this morning I might be able to at least take a walk this morning Daniel blew that out with a long and dreadful night. He's getting some rest now and stayed home from school, so hopefully I can return to the training tomorrow.
Kids
This week Kim and I are waking up to a realization: our kids are really different from each other, and we need to make some adjustments to that. First example, James is almost 9 and he really doesn't need to be going to bed quite so early any more. So starting next week we will change things up, which means dealing with different bedtimes for all 3 kids, not a blanket bedtime, which is a challenge as parents but just makes sense. Second example, Daniel just doesn't like to eat dinner most of the time. Whether it is being full from snack, being picky, or just not wanting to stop playing and eat he just doesn't eat at dinner times most nights. We have tried pretty much everything, from hard core almost forcing meals to laissez-faire let him eat if he wants. We are spoiled by James who has always been a good eater. Well we have decided to just relax the dinner meal for Daniel, watch what he snacks on, but if he doesn't eat at dinner he doesn't. Not make him a huge meal. It's hard to get out of the blanket same rules, bedtimes etc. for all the kids practice, but at some point you have to recognize that individuality.
Google Voice
After the release of the new feature in GMail of the ability to make phone calls I have started looking into Google Voice. Does anyone out there use this? It seems pretty cool, and makes sense in a lot of ways. Just not sure how well it really works. Since it's free it doesn't seem like it would hurt to at least look into it, maybe come up with a way so certain people out there can always reach me without having to look up my phone numbers.
Football
Well it's just a couple of weeks until the season openers for college football and I have been contemplating the prospects for my alma mater. And it is pretty discouraging. The reports from practice all sound good. And if there was a season where Hawkins pulls it together this would be it, as he has the first team that is totally his recruits. But I felt that we could pull it together last season and then we fell apart. So I am not exactly filled with optimism this year. But I am still ready for the season to start, I so love football, and there is something freeing about college football because I can watch an SEC game and know it has no impact on what happens to the Buffs. That isn't as true of the NFL. Which is another reason I continue to stay away from fantasy football, it's just not fun to have to care that much about every games outcome.
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