With only a couple weeks to go before I settle into my new flexi-schedule at work and drop down to a four-day-per-week long-hours plan so Claire and I get a day together without Karin, I was thinking I should add a new series to the blog chronicling those sure-to-be fleeting days spent with the girl. After all, should some day someone need to look back for some insight on the effort — Claire, myself, or some other abstract third party considering the endeavor for themselves — it wouldn’t hurt to have a neat little reference to remember it all by. That, and its probably one of the more interesting things I’ll be doing this fall. Ah, the excuses of blogging. To kick things off, Daddy Days Part Zero — the preface, prelude, teaser-trailer — is this, and is nothing more than the nifty little fact that Karin toddled herself off to a work-esque function this evening and left Claire at home to look after her bumbling father. (She spent her first [half] day at the day-home this morning, to boot.) We ate dinner, collected the mail (as she tottered down the sidewalk taking time to drop into a squat and inspect each crack on the pavement) and performed the regular evening bath-and-storytime ritual before ‘mom’ returned for the final tuck-in. And everyone survived. Amazingly. Thursday, is round two a the day home. And Monday it moves into full swing. How time flies. |
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