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By briantologist | June 29, 2008
So. Things I have learned during our two weeks and counting without our precious boy in the house:
- The sense of purposelessness quickly dissipates.
- It dissipates into a sense of overwhelming, vacationlike calm.
- The awesome thing about feeling like you’re on vacation in the big awesome city where you live? You can do all the vacationlike stuff you usually want to do but don’t, only you can do it with your friends, who already live there.
- Turns out the vacationlike stuff we want to do mainly involves drinking and going out to restaurants after work.
- Sleeping in fucking rules.
We’ve done so little, and yet I feel we could do so much less for so much longer. Yesterday we went to breakfast (at NOON, thank you!) and then went to read magazines at Borders, and I was reminded of how we used to do that like, every single week back before we were with child, and how I’d completely forgotten that fact. It wasn’t just that I’d misplaced the knowledge, like usual; the fact had been completely obliterated, crumpled up and tossed down the memory hole in the Ministry of Truth, and replaced by one of the only truths I’ve bothered to keep up with since 2005, which is that there’s a small cute person whose butt I need to wipe with some frequency.
In short, it’s been a joy, an absolute goddamn joy, and as much as I’m starting to miss our tot, I’m comforted by the fact that from all accounts, he’s having a terrific time with both sets of grandparents. Oh hey, you know what’s fun? What’s fun is when you get to switch sides of the table with said grandparents, and call them up and chuckle bemusedly as they tear around the house after your toddler, keeping him both amused and uninjured. And then you say your pleasantries and turn in for a nap, often your second of the day. Experiencing this, I completely understand why everybody talks about how goddamn great it is to have grandkids. We are, for all practical purposes, retirees this week, and it is sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Topics: Beans!, Fucking Awesome, good times., Hoo! | 2 Comments »
June 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
can my kid go to that camp too? man. i’m jealous. camp grandma is on the whole other side of the country from us. dammit. sigh. …… sigh again for good measure. You know what i miss? say you’re sitting around the house at7pm. kinda bored. wanna do something, you ask? Sig-o says, yeah. and even if it’s going out for a dinner or drinks you don’t have to rush back to get kid in bed or to relieve babysitter and you can stay up late cause you know you’ll get to sleep in late. sigh. did i mention i’m jealous?
June 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Camp Grandma is a good 800 miles from us, I should mention, so this is a pretty new thing for us. A new, magical, awesome thing. And yes, the whole thing where you think about whether or not you want to do something, then decide to do it or not based only on what the two of you want to do? Thaaaaat’s really something.