Jason's Coming Home Tonight!!

Need I say more?

All in all I think we have survived our dad-less week pretty well. Both kids seem to still be alive, which is a good thing. As for myself, I haven't noticed any new grey hairs. Of course, I haven't looked too closely!

Tonight I took the kids out for supper to Boston Pizza. My parents met us there. Eating out with the kids is a toss-up -- it always seems like it'll be less work and trouble than cooking a meal at home, but sometimes, depending on behavior, it's actually more stressful, especially when other people (such as grandparents) are there so we have worry about how the kids will behave in front of them. Tonight would be ... one of the times where eating out proved to be more trouble than staying home would have been. We were all in pretty good form by the end of the meal but there were some rough times along the way. I'll avoid mentioning any names or details in order to protect the guilty.

Be that as it may, I get my better half back sometime after midnight tonight. And as parenting these two children seems to be very much a two-person job, I will be glad to have backup again!