Weclome to the club young man

Yesterday I took a big step on my way to becoming the ideal "part-time-stay-at-home" dad. My first official adult play date! I don't know if this is even the proper term because it is so new to me. Basically I had some of my kids friends over for a play date and their mom stuck around to chat. Whoa....what a nice deal that is. I mean, most of the time I use the "play-date" to get some things done around the house, but it was genuinely nice to have another adult around to talk to in the afternoon. She sat on down in the kitchen and we talk while I put away dishes. I took her outside to show her our new garden area. I brewed up some coffee to enjoy. Our conversation centered around the kids of course, what summer plans were, schools and teachers. We had the occasional child whining/crying interruptions which were taken care of quickly so as to return to our important discussions. Although I think to truly join the club our talks are going to need to get into more gossip and less small talk. I mean, the way I understand it you can really learn a lot about your community neighbors at these gatherings. I am not veteran enough to warrant such information, but maybe someday.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY!

PEACE OUT DADS!!!

Day off...sort of

Today the school district is closed, no classes at all. So I go from part-time-stay-at-home status to full-time-stay-at-home status. Lucky for me the weather here where we live is going to be perfect and I already have an afternoon play date planned here for my girls (and if you read my blog you know how I love the play date!).

I will spend the better part of this day removing sod from my yard. Not the way I would dream of spending my full day at home, but it is the next big project that needs attention and I won't have a better opportunity to get it done. It's funny because when we bought this house we totally re-worked the yard and grew a lot of grass and since then we have slowly removed parts of the grass in favor of more garden area. If you have never removed grass before I only have two words for you...SOD REMOVER (pictured above). This machine will not only remove your unwanted grass, but will also provide you a great upper body workout. I've used one of these machines in the past and I'm not sure who was driving who.

So enjoy your Friday and have a great weekend.

PEACE OUT DADS!!!