Keeping Up

I was most of the way through writing my post for Part II of “Anachronistic & Implusive” when my browser crashed. Grrr. I’m almost out of time now, so I’ll have to try it again later.

I’ve been doing the single-parent thing since Maria left for Japan, so my posts here have become more infrequent. But that’s only temporary.

My brother John arrived yesterday, and he’ll be helping me with Kai until Maria comes back at the end of the week. I’m glad he’s here! I don’t know how single parents do it: even doing something seemingly as simple as taking a shower can be a challenge when there’s no one else to keep the boy busy (Kai’s actually good at keeping himself occupied - it’s more that I can’t really keep an eye on him - so I guess it’s more of a worrying parent thing). And you can definitely forget about doing certain things, like mowing the lawn.

Rather than driving straight here from Arizona, John actually drove home to RI first. He and a friend of his made it across the country in about 48 hours. What a couple of nutcases.

Last night John and Kai were looking through Kai’s infant photo album. John pointed to a picture of me holding Kai the first day we brought him home, and said to Kai “that was your Daddy when he was 16″ (for those who might not know, I was 30, but I guess I didn’t look it). So apparently the past few years have aged me!