Monkey House

Since the last day of Parental Leave, I haven’t written anything about the experience. I suppose I wanted the last entry to be special and insightful, but instead, it is what it is. There was nothing particularly noteworthy to blog about for the last day, so this was going to be a reflective piece on my 2 months as “Daddy Daycare.” But this week my energy levels have been ultra-low. New schedule has taken the mick out of me. So, I’ll get the ball rolling with some blabbing and maybe by the end of it all there will be some noteworthy reflection.
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The last day of Parental Leave was a Friday. That meant a visit from Grammy (Grammie?) and Abuelito.

Part of me wanted to do something memorable, but honestly… what can you do? The best thing to make sure it was a great last day was to have help.

Nothing of particular interest happened. Watched some TV (Olympics), had some naps, did a little bit (a very little bit) of cleaning. Having grandparents there is always awesome.

And then it was over!

Sorry for the anti-climax!

I tried posting, but our internets have been lame lately. Here is tonight’s speed, which is actually a GOOD connection for what we’ve had lately:

At least that’s a connection. The last 2 times I’ve tried updating the blog, I haven’t been able to get the page to load without timing out.

So, yeah. Here’s what happened:
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As the title says, I had a morning from hell.

Sunday, I slept. And slept. Woke up very late (too embarrassed to say when), and just when I thought I was getting up to walk the dogs, etc., I slept some more. Alex had already gone to her parents’ place for a planned dinner that evening, so only the dogs were around to make sure I got out of bed at a reasonable hour. They failed in their duty.
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Got lazy in more ways than one! First, three days without updates. Secondly, Friday turned out to require very little work from me.
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