For the Guy with Kids and a WW Twenty One

[hopeful4her]

Thanks guys. I always know where I can get support.

This morning, I had to call the wife. D11 could not find her Social Studies binder as she was practically out the door. I told I'd keep looking and if I found it, I would get it to her at school. I called the wife after I checked around and checked the Explorer. She started to look around. She kept me on the phone while she looked around. No sign of it. I told her I'll keep checking around the house. We tell each other that we'll talk to each other later and hang up.

I go to pick up the girls after work and also call S14. I had to make several calls before he answered. Turns out that his soccer try out was today and he didn't make the team. He'll try out for track later in the year. I tell him that I just picked up the girls and I'll head over to the school to pick him up too. When I pick him up, he tells me that he has to do a lot of computer work and printing for a project tomorrow. I need ink for my printer, so we decide that I'll take him to his grandparents house to do it and I'll make sure his mom can get him or his dad can take him to the apartment.

He'll just stay with his mom tonight instead of coming home with us. While he gets a few things from the apartment first, I call the wife's cell with no answer. I don't leave a VM. As I get him to his grandfathers house, he tells me that his mom called while he was in the apartment and had asked if the girls were still there. He told her what we were doing. I figure, good, I don't need to talk to her.

On the way home, the wife calls me back just before 6:30. She is calling from her work. I tell D11 to answer it. She talks a little and says, "No. I didn't. I think he did. Okay. Bye."

Then she hands me the phone. I look at her confused.
"Here! HERE! She wants to TALK to you!"
I'm smiling at her now.
I take the phone and say hello.

"Hey. I'm still at work. You called?"
"I was letting you know that I was going to take S14 to his grandparents, but I know he told you already."
"Yeah, I called him at the apartment. I told him that I'll call him when I get out to see if he's ready or his dad can take him."

I started to get drawn in. Already.

"Have his dad take him. It's kinda late, huh?" I ask her.
"Yeah. I'll be here until 7 and then I have training tomorrow. We were swamped today."
"Well, I just left him off and were heading home."
"Okay. Tell the girls I'll call them when I get off. They forgot to call me last night."

Yeah, now she knows what it feels like.

"Alright, well, be careful going home" I tell her.
"Okay. I'll call later when I get home."

"Bye" and I hang up. I notice that when I hung up, my brow was furled. After I hung up, the tension eased. It was a funny observation.

Got home, got dinner ready and served up. Helped D7 with a project and then fought with her a little. She is one stubborn little kid. Just like her mother and father. Mom is stubborn and I'm bullheaded.

The wife hasn't called yet. I was thinking of telling her, if she called earlier,
"I can go pick up S14 if you had plans. I can have him here with us." Like, sorry to mess up your plans if someone ELSE was going to spend the night.

But I'm just not good at snarky. Mean snarky, that is. At least, not with her. Like, I would have to be REALLY pissed. I find that odd. Fun sarcasm, I'm great at. To be mean, not so much.

But she's not going to call like she said she was, anyway.
Besides, the less conversation, the better.

I just got D11 to bed. She was fighting with me to keep me from watching the Victoria Secret Special on tv. Trying to cover my head with a blanket and covering my eyes with her hands. We were having fun.

Those girls are not my type anyway. I like women with some meat on their bones. They are HOT, but not my type.

Hey, instead of everyone betting on me, how about if I just try to cover the over/under?

Better odds, don'tcha think?