The socks thing goes way, way back! It's all Lisa's fault! Two Christmases ago she got her H a poker set for Christmas.... and socks became important!
I worry about hurting someone, too, but it's a lot better to do it while dating than later! Hopefully I, and any potential "hurtee" are a lot more mature about it than we would have been years ago.
I hope you're not out golfing in that "DRY HEAT" LOL
In the MidWest, it's finally starting to warm-up this summer, JUST in time for the boys to go back to club soccer season. We have six games in two days this weekend (seeding tournament), and it's going to be 90+ degrees! Now, that may not sound bad to you, but we don't have DRY HEAT! We have HOT, moist, HUMID, make your hair lay flat HEAT! We live on a really nice river, so I don't complain much, as we can cool off on the water, BUT the soccer field sidelines is a different story!
Actually, we're coming to Phoenix in February (for my son's U13 team) for a soccer tournament (President's Day Cup?)!
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I did actually do some golfing in the Dry Heat this weekend. And it was a little warm!
I know about your heat! I much prefer 100+ here to 90+ in the midwest, south, or east coast! That humidity will just about kill you!
S14 has started football practice, I don't know how they do it! But he seems to be enjoying it, from what I can tell. And S11 decided he did want to play soccer this year (thought he wasn't, but he changed his mind), so that's started up, too.
Phoenix in February should be pretty nice. Quite a ways to travel to kick a ball around!
I don't know how these kids do it either. Since we're in the 'deep south' here the humidity is totally deadly. The football coaches wear three monitors around their necks at all times. One is a lightning detector that goes off if there is a lightning strike within 25 miles of the field and they immediately go inside. The next is a temperature gauge - obvious function. The third is a heat index monitor. If the temp + humidity pushes the heat index over 110 degrees they immediately stop practice and go inside. There have been many kids who have died in practice because of the heat here. CRAZY!
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Yeah, H has a friend from Canada down working in his office this week, I have known him for years as he used to work with Dan in Kansas. Anyway he has been working on Dan's house in the evenings and he says that the humidity/head combo is unreal! Guess there isn't so much humidity in his part of Canada...
Anyway we are going to hit 100 Friday, and that is with high humidity so heat indexes will soar...
Well, that's a good question. I guess I am getting settled into it ok. To me it doesn't seem to be much different, at least during the week, which I guess says something about how much we paid attention to each other on a daily basis.
The weekends are a little weird, since we are still kinf of feeling our way around how to manage the kids. When you get down to it, it hasn't made a lot of difference who has the kids, they end up either with friends at their house, and ignore mom or dad, or they end up at a friends house, and ignore mom or dad!
Now that school is starting, as well as soccer for one of the kids, things will change a little, as there are Saturday activities to work around. But even then, since W often worked on Saturdays when she was still home, it doesn't really change much.
All that said, the house seems strange. It is quieter most of the time.
It's early days I guess, and you are settling into a new routine. I must say I think you sound really well adjusted, as do the kids. The fact they are just carrying on as normal is an excellent sign that you have done a good job in this transitional time. They're lucky to have a father like you. Quietness is a strange thing to get used to, I used to not be able to cope with it but now I wouldn't be without it.
Is the cat enjoying some one-to-one time? My cat has decided that moving her has ruined her life and she no longer speaks to me except to accept some Whiska's chicken and cheese treats. Although I got nudged awake at 4 this morning to apply a stroke and cuddle. Baby steps??
My cat has decided that moving her has ruined her life and she no longer speaks to me except to accept some Whiska's chicken and cheese treats. Although I got nudged awake at 4 this morning to apply a stroke and cuddle. Baby steps?? 