October 6, 2005

When I awake tomorrow, Jen will be here. Is there anything better than that?

October 5, 2005

I always wanted to write one of those New York Post, Boston Herald type headlines. You know the ones. It’s writen to deceive, all the while, telling the truth. It sells papers.

Much in the same way those headlines are true, Jen did leave me. She went on a business trip to California on Sunday and won’t be back until Friday morning. She left me with Hayes. And boy are my arms tired! Oh, wait, that’s the joke about flying. I’m tired. Really tired. Being the primary caregiver for the HBomb is hard work!

Ok, so I’m not the only caregiver. We have our part-time nanny whom we’ve enlisted to cover a few more hours to give me a break. And thank god for that. But, truth be told, being the one that feeds Hayes breakfast and dinner and puts him in bed at night and gets up with him in the morning is not a job for the meek.

Remember a long while back when I made that deal with Hayes to only have him shit on his mom’s watch? Yah, well he’s violated that one. About 4 times a day.

He’s also decided to change his bedtime every day, just to throw daddy off his schedule. And then, to make things extra fun, he’s started getting up super early. Yesterday it was 5:30, today, 6 (which was not that bad). He’s driven me to an early 8 o’clock bedtime just to keep up.

So, it’s day 3 of no Jen. H is screaming over the monitor as I type, as he, apparently, is brushing off his own signals that he’s tired. She’s back on Friday. Oh, can’t wait!