A Day in the Life

5:30am
Lisa's alarm went off.  Ours is a nice gentle beeping that starts low and gets louder and louder until you turn it off.  Because I haven't been sleeping well lately, Lisa went down stairs to do her Bible study and I went back to bed.

6:00amish
Grant came in to the bedroom and bee-lined to mommy's side of the bed.  When he found out she wasn't there and was actually downstairs he happily headed down to her.  I went back to bed - more awake now with the sounds of Grant and mommy talking floating up the stairs.

6:33am
Grant came bursting in with mommy right behind, "Coffee, daddy!"  And, magically, a blessed cup showed up at my nightstand.

6:47am
In the shower and talking to Lisa as we plan the day.  Grant is playing with the iPad and TJ is still asleep.

7:41am
Lisa is out the door to meet her workmates for a trip to Camp.  She quietly slipped out while Grant was watching an episode of Mighty Machines, his new favorite show.  I put breakfast on the table for the boys - cereal and a banana - while making sure TJ had his lunch packed.

8:09am
Running late, I dropped off TJ with grandma realizing that his book bag and lunch are still in the house.  Fortunately, Betty lives in the same neighborhood as us so she was able to stop by later on and get it.

8:15amish
Dropped Grant off at day care with a piggy-back ride from the car to the classroom.  Grant wasn't giving out the love this morning and once he realized mommy had left got down right ornery.  At least leaving him off at day care he gave me a hug and kiss.

8:21am
Drove to Ft. Bragg to work listening to NPR discuss the situation in Syria - the latest developments of Syria offering to hand over their chemical weapon stockpiles to Russia being an unexpected twist.

9:06am
Work.  Ugh.

11:51am
Left for lunch with my buddy Charles to discuss the new budget, his migraine headache, and the latest machinations of the command climate.  The food court at the Ft. Bragg mini mall is a great place to people watch and the Manchu Wok serves a good helping of noodles and chicken.

3:47pm
Left for the commissary to buy some food for the house.  I have to admit getting my work done as early as possible in the office makes it easy to slide out a little early.  I don't mind doing the grocery shopping and taking advantage of the savings on post.  Meh.  I don't have gender based hang-ups lile who should do the shopping.

4:34pm
I received a phone call from an officer wanting to join my Reserve Unit.  I have to put it off because I am on line at the store.

4:45pmish
On the road home.  I conducted the interview and was buzzed by Lisa who is was on the verge of buying brand new furniture for the downstairs from two guys in a furniture truck.  Seriously.  The rest of the ride home was getting Lisa to negotiate with them.  Look - if you know my wife - it takes her forever to make a decision on big purchases so to have two guys show up with the stuff right there and right now...  As I pulled up the house the furniture was coming off the truck.

5:50pm
Picked up Grant who almost got overlooked in the furniture buy.

7:22pm
Cleaning up from home made fried rice and a teriyaki pork loin.  Lisa is enforcing the No-Playing-On-the-Couch and the boys play in the garage with their toys.  Lisa and I share the cleaning duties even though the house still smells like garlic, onions, and sesame oil. 

9:55pm
Somehow its 9:55pm.  The kids have been in bed for an hour or so.  The craziness of gettting them to bed is rather benign.  Neither of them fight it - although Grant is on our big bed.  We opened a new bottle of tequila and made a couple of margaritas.  

9:58pm
I am off to the new living room furniture to enjoy some TV.