Jun 18
Today is Fathers day and Martyn is 150 days old, seriously? I had these big plans to get a bunch of stuff done, and was mostly successful, hurrah!
Martyn and I slept out in the man cave last night, and this morning Eli came in there all in a rush, saying he turned off his clock instead of just hitting snooze and now he was late. I was thinking it was like 6 and he was really late, and I even stayed in and nursed Martyn for probably ten minutes. When I went out to help get ready, it was only 5:20....he wasn't late yet. Silly man. I got him some coffee and sent him on his way, and went back to bed with the boy. It was so nice that he stayed asleep after he nursed, and I was able to go back to sleep for a few hours. Martyn woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep around 7:30 or so, but was laying quietly in the bed with me, entertaining and talking to himself.
Finally, he decided it was time to wake Mama up and started kicking me in the leg...I could not ignore that any longer.
We got up, and got started on the day right away. Made the grocery list, went to the store (which for groceries consists of three stores) and got Eli's fathers day gift, of a new grille! Martyn fell asleep about half way through that whole excursion, which left me to lug him in the car seat, in and out of the car. He's going to be too big for that pretty soon, sheesh.
I had started the laundry before we left, and was ready to switch it and stayed on top of it (except for folding) when we got home. Got the groceries put away, and Martyn down for a short nap. I got dinner made, and even special desert of strawberry short cake, with home made whipped cream....one of Eli's favorites I know. I saw those strawberries in the store and they were just calling my name.
Eli was pretty tired when he got home, as expected. But he was happy to see his little family, and really appreciated his fathers day gift, and special desert. It felt good to honor him a bit, as a father. I already enjoy honoring him as a husband, it's double the pleasure to honor him as a daddy too....and he is a wonderful daddy to Martyn.
I'm looking forward to Fathers days in the future where Martyn understands the concept of honoring his father....For that matter, I'm looking forward to him doing that on a daily basis, but fathers day is extra special fun.
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