This week, it’s the Mid-Winter Break up here in NYC. All the kid’s are off from school in what is like a preview of what Spring Break will be like. I say all of that because it doesn’t feel like winter up here. More like the start of Spring, which is just completely wrong, as this should be close to the coldest week of the year. Ah… Climate Change…
So, the kid is at home, which is a challenging situation for us all. Very challenging for my wife, as she is working from home, and me and the kid are the worst co-workers to have. We play our music too loud and we’d microwave fish for lunch, if we had a microwave. It’s also not that great for the kid, as she’s away from her friends, as most of them have gone someplace; either to visit family, or just be away from the City. That leaves me as the kid’s partner in crime for having fun. We’ve read books, and done Lego, drawn pictures, run errands, and gone down to The Strand for book shopping. But at the end of the day, no matter how cool dad is, he’s not another kid.
For me… I see how fleeting life is, and I value these moments that I have with my daughter, knowing that one day she will be off on her own, and I am glad, even comforted that I will have these memories of the time we spent together.
And the other side of me is that there is a bunch of work that I want to do. Not only write a blog or two, but I have three story ideas I want to work on, as well as just catch up on my reading. (I didn’t help my cause by going book shopping, and adding more to my reading list.) Finally, about twenty minutes ago, I told the kid she HAD to play on the iPad so dad could get some work done, and that request to my daughter what the official sign thatI won’t be getting anything done this week.
Nope, it’s just not happening.
I am now going to make brownies with my daughter, and talk about the new accessories that she’s like her favorite doll to have.
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