Good Times

Not the 70s show about an urban black family, but my own household recently.

Well, for starters, my little boy is sick right now, but he's still a laid-back little boy, and my little girl misses being able to hug and kiss him, and we hate that for her.

Otherwise, things are going well. The reason I've been out is that I went back home to visit my father and step-mother, and to introduce them to their new grandson. We packed up the van with TONS of stuff (boy, we forgot how much stuff you have to take when carrying a baby with you on a trip) and left an hour late for our all-day drive. About 30 minutes into the trip, the heater started smelling funny, so we turned it off, stopped at Wal-mart and bought some blankets and socks. The rest of the trip was nice and uneventful. We even stopped at Zaxby's! We miss Zaxby's because they don't have it here and we had just been introduced a few months before our move. Now when we visit back home we make it a point to eat at the places we don't get here.

Anywho, we had a nice week at home. We saw most of the family, visited old friends one night for dinner, and spent the rest of the week at my parents' house. Playing Wii. Now we have a Wii Fit Plus so we can spend time together working out at home. Now, as you may recall, I work out a lot anyway, but this gives us about 30-60 min together just hula-hooping, doing yoga, ski-jumping and dancing after our little girl goes to bed each night. And we're enjoying it.

But while we were at my folks' home, my father built our son a table for his room, and now I'm spending most evenings putting another coat of stain on it to get it dark enough to match the rest of his furniture. My father is quite the carpenter and he really enjoyed this project. I drew him a sketch (not a good picture, a SKETCH) and sent a picture of my son's furniture, and my dad created this table from his own head. It looks great. Now I have to not screw it up with the stain.
But he rested a lot. He had just finished his treatments and his energy was low, but he got that table done and we got to just relax for the first time in a long time. It was good to be home.

Lately, things have been pretty decent at home, too. My daughter made the honor roll in school and passed her karate test, so now she's a green belt and in the advanced class. I finally got my feel for the water back and have been able to swim and run a few times, but still have a lot of work to do to get faster and to get on my bike. My first race is April 2 and I need to get in some good shape for it. My bride even mentioned the possibility of doing a 5k with me in the spring, but we would all be walking it. I'm cool with that. I would love to do that with my fam.

And I was finally able to make love to my bride again. The doc gave her the all clear and Friday morning as our son slept and our daughter was at school, we took advantage. And it was good. REALLY good! Like old times. So there you go. Things at the Groom's castle have picked back up to where they once were and where they should be.

This was just an update. No great words of wisdom, lessons or challenges. Hang tough. I'll be back soon.