Monday, February 7, 2011

While You Were Gone...

We really missed you. We missed you at bedtime. We missed you reading books and building with LEGOS. We missed eating doughnuts with you. We missed your hugs.

Here's what you missed:

16 loads of dishes
1 cozy night in front of the fire
49 dirty diapers
3 naps on the couch (your daughter, not your wife)
13 loads of laundry
1 new word ("Juice!)
3 boxes of snotty tissues
647 fights over LEGOS/dinosaurs/trains
21 times the DVD drawer has been emptied
4 days of forgetting something at school
14 new flower-fairies
42 tooth-brushings
16 "Congratulations - What a lucky guy!"
from friends/family/strangers in stores
11 time outs
7 straight days of someone humming Black Sabbath
8 statements of "I miss my Dad."
3 pizzas with friends (Spinoccoli is good!)
1 appliance delivery
8 walks to/from school
1 bottle of wine (yes, only one - and I shared it!)
3 meals of Cassie eating something w/o being forced
964 frustrated head-buts
7 nights of "When is Papa coming home?"
1 dead squirrel in the driveway

So, really, not all that much. Welcome home Papa - we have missed you!

1 comments:

Brandon said...

And I'm finally back. It was a long week away, and I'm still struggling with all the work that has piled up and the inability to spend even more time with you all.