Some Enchanted Evenings
From the musical South Pacific:
After her first day of practice for Newsies, my youngest daughter taught FHE after Mexican Monday for dinner which she always looks forward to - because of the delicious tacos, burritos and nachos we have for dinner. A little later she complained of a headache, then threw up after I ran and got her a bowl. Clearly she wasn’t feeling well – and as she walked to the bathroom, she vomited again, then dumped it in the bathroom sink.
“Honey, your turn,” I told her as she rose from sitting on the couch looking at her phone.
“Why did you dump it in the sink? Always put it in the potty. Never, ever in the sink.” She told my little girl.
While cleaning it, my wife dry-heaved a bit which made me laugh – simply because it’s a funny involuntary sound regardless of who’s making the sound. (Often humor is the best way to deal with chronic illness - my wife had extreme morning sickness for 9 months - during all four pregnancies.)
As my youngest son and little girl headed to bed (they share a room), my wife wasn’t sure what to do – as the sink was plugged with the chunks from Mexican Monday. This lead to me suggesting she use draino which she did and told us all: Don’t use the bathroom sink for 6 to 8 hours.
My oldest daughter, also on her phone - on the couch, wasn’t paying attention and didn’t know how long we were supposed to refrain from using the sink. I asked my oldest son to remined his older sister of what her Mom had said, and he replied with what he heard: 68 hours.
“See, oldest daughter. Your brother gets it. I get it. Why don’t you get it?” at this point she was bent over laughing so hard she couldn’t breathe.
My wife then headed down to help my little girl goto sleep. After opening the door to the kids room, she was heard saying: “Honey, don’t sit in your bowl,” feeling better, and no longer nauseated and without a headache, my little girl figured she could play in the giant silver bowl she was given - just incase she threw up again.
😂😂😂
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After work last night (9/14/23):
Had to grab Lactose-Free Sour Cream from the grocery store. No problem.
Pick up oldest son at high school after his Cross Country Track practice
Drive home from high school (the total trip time was 45 minutes. Yes, really.)
Took wife’s casserole out of the oven and ate it w/ oldest son (she was with younger son at baseball practice)
Fill the gas tank up in the car
At gas station, buy 2 1-liter bottles of water for the campour my sons are going on tomorrow
Drive to Back to School Night
Catch up with friend from church
Chat about patent strategies for my startup w/ friend from church who also happens to be a patent attorney and cancer survivor
192 claims from 5 patents = prior art. Companies who filed those patents include IBM, Samsung, Apple, and Sony - definitely not low-hanging fruit when it comes to potentail IP litigation. ChatGPT was unable to analyze the claims and group them in a coherent manner from which I could draft the claims of my patent.
Go +20 minutes late to youngest daughter’s classroom. Nice teacher, good info.
Chat with mom’s of my daughter’s friends. Three boys in her class have crushes on her. :)
On my way out of the school run into pictures of prior graduating classes.
Take pictures
Share w/ family via group chat
Get emotional seeing the older kids when they were 5th grade graduating class in elementary
Grateful for the experience