Happy Father’s Day Jamie
Happy Father’s Day to this guy. I’m sure he will second my statement of…’four kids? How did this happen?’
And yet here we are. Four weeks into an adventure like no other. I will say that while we both know that we are blessed beyond our wildest dreams, it also hasn’t been the easiest. And if we’ve learned anything it’s that chaos can happen in a split second.
We can be cruising along, doing fine, and then all of sudden everyone is screaming and threats are being made and the parenting standards we set for ourselves are thrown out the window.
Like last night. We went on a beautiful boat ride. It actually felt good and everyone was happy. We were smiling and nice things were being said and we felt like we could do this.
And then one of the kids spit their dinner over the side of the boat, only they didn’t actually make it OVER the side of the boat. It was red. It was everywhere. Then another kid got very frustrated by the frustration and threw a pole overboard. An important part of the boat. I’m not sure what the part was for but it mattered. Gone. Suddenly everyone was yelling and it felt like it was 129 degrees and we were all trapped in a jail cell together.
I lost my shoes. The boat was trashed. A life jacket went missing. A brand new loaf of bread was ripped open from the middle to feed the carp. Bread everywhere. A fishing line got snapped.
The magic of four was gone. But after the dust settled we spoke about how it was absolutely perfect until it wasn’t and we patted ourselves on the back for having a beautiful boat ride.
We even talked about trying again. After the red puke gets cleaned and we purchase a new pole thing of course. Maybe.
Happy Father’s Day Jamie. Sorry about your pole. I got you a baby girl to make up for it.
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