My dear husband has been out of town for almost a week, and we really miss him.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Parenting really is supposed to be a two person job, and I’ll admit that it’s been tough juggling all the schedules without a little help.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, with him not here there’s been no reason to cook real dinners (why bother, the kids only complain), so we’ve been having lovely meals of corn dogs, scrambled eggs and waffles, and leftovers.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Since he didn’t the the one and only cell phone because I needed it to manage the kids and their various activities, I haven’t really been able to talk to him, because he isn’t at his hotel until after I go to bed (so he claims).\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, I’ve missed him.<\/p>\n
And the house has missed him.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 REALLY missed him.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Since our whole house is wired together and we have all this cool and funky equipment (thanks to Ryan’s job), all our lights, tv, videos, and radio and stuff are all tied up in the home automation system.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The system that is currently off line.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 That means I can’t listen to the radio, no myth tv (our version of tivo), no dvds or videos for the kids, etc.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 None of the remotes in the house work.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t even turn on the tv manually since that button broke long ago and we can only operate it with a remote.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I was exhausted after church (I gave a lesson.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It went fine, by the way) and feeding the kids dinner and I just wanted to lie down for a few minutes of quiet before we went to my sister’s house for a birthday party.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I just wanted to be able to put on a movie or let them watch something recorded, but NO.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing works.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So I just told them to please be quiet (Right–like that works) and went and locked myself in my room for 15 minutes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Of course the phone rang during my quiet time, and I had to answer it (it could be Ryan, after all), and then had to call my son and tell him the phone was for him.<\/p>\n
My computer for some reason also senses that the master of all things electronic is away and it’s time to act up.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve gotten about 50 spams a day asking if I want to increase the size of my….. never mind.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t even access my blog, for heaven’s sake!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 (I’m typing this on Ryan’s computer–I hope I don’t break it!)<\/p>\n
But on the bright side, nobody’s broken any bones, the house has not flooded or caught on fire, and no trees were damaged in the recent wind storm.<\/p>\n
And he comes back home today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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