For the Guy with Kids and a WW Diciotto

[hopeful4her]

Wouldn't that be too cool? All of us getting together some day?

I was actually heading home last night. I had brought extra clothes to go out if someone had called me. B had called me when she got off work. She was going over to a family get together. She had told me that K was still on the road heading back from Austin and that she didn't think that she was going to be doing anything either.

After work, I decided to hit Wallymart and pick some new pillows for the kids rooms and also get D7 a little boom box. Heading home, a little bummed out, I kept looking to see if I would see the wife's Rodeo heading the opposite direction from picking up the puppies.

Five minutes from home, she calls me. Asks me what I'm doing. I tell her that I was on the road, but didn't tell her where I was going. She said she had the girls and that Juli was missing me. I ask her to let me talk to her and she gets on and she is bawling. Crying her eyes out. She is missing me. I could barely understand her. They were already out trick or treating. I cheered her up as best as I could. We talked for a while. I asked her what they planned for after and she said they were going to go to Sonic. I ask her if she wanted to eat pizza and she said yes. I told her to ask her mom and the wife agreed. She was ok then, but our call got disconnected. I called back and it disconnected again. I called again and the wife answered talking to Juli, telling her something about it being ok.

Juli thought she hung up on me and started bawling all over again. I calm her down again and let her know that we'll go eat at Peter Piper when they are done. I talk to the wife and ask her to call me when they are done. She sounds very frustrated with the kids. She also told me that Juli is tired and had a bad day at school, too. I get home, change to my going out clothes, put on the Diesel tonight.

They call me maybe 20 minutes later that we can meet. I get to the place first, order and get a table. They show up and Juli runs to me and I fall to my knees and we give each other big hugs. Then Amanda. Quick hello to the wife and we sit. Juli says, "I'm sitting next to daddy!"

My heart was gushing!

We sit and talk a bit about the day. Looking at the people dressed up. Some of them, daddy likee!

Amanda is upset because Juli caused them to finish too early. The girls and I go get our drinks. I did not ask the wife to fill her cup. She's on her own.

Then I start to get calls. My childhood bud first. Then B. I took the call from my friend, but walked away from the table. When B called, I hit ignore and turned my phone upside down. The wife was just looking. After the girls ate, they run off to play, leaving the wife and I to chit chat. Just a tad. She is sick. Looks like allergies or a cold. We talk about S14 getting picked up by his dad while they were going house to house. They had made plans without her knowing, so she was upset. I notice she keeps getting the looks. Those thinking looks. She asked me if I had made plans to go out. I said that since I hadn't heard from them, that yes, I did(I didn't). She says that they hadn't heard from me, so..... I explain that Amanda was supposed to call me after talking to her. I ask her if she was taking meds for her cold. She says yes and shows me. She says she took some this morning and then just before leaving work. Then she says,
"Oh! That could be why I'm so sleepy. It's a 24 hour medicine."
We both chuckled and then the girls came back.

We decide afterwards to go try to hit some more houses for Amanda, but we have to go leave off the dog at the apartment. They thought it would be fun to dress up Moe and drag her along trick or treating. We decide to meet back her apartment, leave off the dog and hit a neighborhood in one vehicle. Mine. We explain to the girls that we are heading back to the apartment and which car are they going in. Both, in unison, "Yours!"

Mine.

We do that, hit a neighborhood, nobody out anymore and I take them back to the apartment. Driving back, K calls me and I hit ignore. Then a loud, "MESSAGE RECEIVED" VM. I drop them off, big hugs for my girls. My daughters, that is. The wife looks exhausted and tells me thank you for the pizza. Leaving, I call back K and we end up at a bar for a few beers. Ok, several.

I left before 2am this time!

Now to figure out what to do for today. I might go hunting with my bud tonight on his property. Haven't done that in years. My movies didn't come in yesterday. Maybe today.