My son is with his mother for the Holidays, and my home is very, very quiet. I have spent the better part of this month spending as much time with my son as possible, collecting every smell, every hug, every look on his face. I was a nurse last weekend, caring for him as he fought a tummy-bug, so he would be as well as possible to face the snow in New England. For a native Floridian, anything less than 70 is cold, as he will tell you himself. He’s in for a huge shock, and I hope he has a tremendous time and makes happy memories that last a lifetime.
Now I’m not sitting on his bed, holding his stuffed toys and crying. I cooked stuffed mushrooms last night, watched Monday Night Football with a person I love, and tidied like a pro. I have a wedding I will probably be attending the day after Christmas if I don’t visit my sister, and several invitations to travel for a few days, including one from the eyewitness to The Halloween Bunny incident of 1992. It will not be an isolated two weeks unless I want it to be. But it’s still too quiet after the 100lb Puppy of Love starts snoring.
So what’s the deal with the picture? I sent it to TJ because it needed to be sent. I still cannot figure out why it needed to go, but the Universe demanded it and who denies the Universe, right?
I deny the universe and Defy it to… Gravity is for the weak.
Go bar hopping pick up a bar skank/MILF for christmas… No children to interrupt or ask who the strange lady was that stayed the night as you making waffles.. MUHAHAHAHA..
Advice from a previously divorced person.. No you can’t wear the mistletoe belt either..
Merry Christmas Daniel. Just remember when your son comes home it will be all the sweeter a reunion
Enjoy the free time
And as for the temperatures-umm I am a Californian. Its in the 60s here most days. Dern cold I tell you! lol
I will no doubt be feeling a little lost next year when my boys go to stay with their dad for Christmas… I fully intend to keep as busy as possible, but I have a feeling it will feel very odd without two kiddos blasting around the place!
Have a good one Daniel.
/hug
The Blogger Formerly Known As Softi.
2 weeks ago here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we had a horrible cold snap. It was down to the 20′s for 4 days in a row. Had a fire going, the heater on and under a pile of blankets. I now know hell is not full of fire and brimstone, it is a frozen place of shivering misery. I wasn’t sure I would ever get warm again. It is back to the mid 60′s now. You know regular freezing not hell froze over freezing.
Happy Holidays! I bet the kiddo will love the snow. He will have plenty to frolic in as the entire area is gearing up for a bunch of snow. The temps will only be in the teens & lower 20s, though. Not sure how much he will enjoy that…
Enjoy the adult time you get to have over the holidays!
I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Your son will be home before you know it! In the meantime, enjoy some traveling and some football, you certainly deserve it. Holler if you end up in the SC region, I’ll buy ya a beer.
It’s funny – you spend all the time that your kids are with you whining about how you never get any “me” time, etc (well, I do anyway). The moment that they are gone you realise how empty the place is without them. I hope that you manage to find some good times over Christmas and that your son is back soon
/hug Seph xxx
My husband took our kids camping last year. Even though I had been looking forward to a whole week of “me” time I felt a bit like a dog that had had her pups taken off her
I was fine in the day, it was the evenings I felt it, when they would usually be rattling around the house making a noise.
He’ll be back before you know it raving about sledges and snowballs
No kids. But I know the empty feeling of my wife being out of town on business, the other-wordly silence when my beloved puppy of love died a few years ago.
I think of the first time I dropped a chip on the floor after he went to the big field of bunnies in the sky.
It just lay there. It wasn’t supposed to just lay there. It was supposed to be vacuumed up in a millisecond by a blur of fur, slobber, and then a self-righteous, everything on the floor is officially mine and it’s been that way for 10 years and it’s just my RIGHT kind of look.
I don’t know how long I stared at that chip. Still staring at it a little.
Loving someone is so joyful and fulfilling. It’s no wonder the absence of those we love can feel so empty and paralyzing.
look around, recognized the temporal quiet for what it is and PARTY! when he comes back you will have lots of HIM time to occupy you but for now use the respite to do some of the old YOU stuff in peace.
read a book from start to finish in one go, watch the kind of movies you will not want him to see yet, i.e. grizzly horror, romantic goo that will go over his head, etc, maybe combine them and try zombie-land or something… have a go at a romantic evening… the possibilities are many. feel a bit like a bachelor for a while. two weeks at the outside. take a breather before you go back to being THE PARENT.
have fun.
As someone who’s also going to be spending Christmas sans-family, I’ll toast you an eggnog. The one with the raspberry foam on top is yours.
I think it’s great that Sammy gets to go spend time with his mom and play in the snow for the holidays. Big Kudos to you for putting his happiness and needs above yours (isn’t that what parenting is all about?) Take this time to have some Daniel Time and spoil yourself, so you’re recharged and ready for the fun chaos when he returns.
~hugs~
-Del
everyone has said what needs to be said, so I’ll pick up the other thread – Halloween Bunny incident of 1992? Story time!
I agree with everything said above and merry christmas Dan.
That Pig looks like it’s getting ready to leap up and tear someone’s finger off if they don’t stop pointing at it. BW 4 ever!!!
Merry Christmas, Daniel.
P.S. Stop holding out. You know you never told us about the Heineken-fueled Halloween Bunny, and it is definitely story time.
As the father of four, two weeks without children sounds like pure bliss to me, but I can understand how it could feel empty. I’ve got two words for you: football and porn. That should fill that empty space.
Merry Christmas Daniel! May you have a great holiday, and it go quickly enough to get Sammy back to you safe, sound and happy.
This picture is my facebook profile picture as well desktop background. Thank you again Daniel.
That Michelle Bombshell is crazy and she’s already been shot, so it was early karma..
I only wish her all the absolute best. The sun will rise and shine again on such a proficient actor.
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