A SAHD measures life with the small accomplishments. The steps, the squiggles, the inches, these make up the day's labors, some successful, some not. Add into this the working mom that comes home and takes over so I can get my work for school done, and you have our lives tonight. However, I can claim that I taught #1 Son one thing today: The Cover Flip. What is this, you ask? Well, I'll tell you:
You're resting comfortably in bed, and all of a sudden, that need to go to the bathroom hits you. Do you just scrounge the covers off of yourself, or do you reach over towards the edge, grab hold, and neatly flip back the covers? Myself, I flip. That way, when I come back, I can reach over, grab in a similar fashion, and flip said covers back over myself. Tonight, I successfully taught #1 Son this most important of skills for comfortable and efficient cover operation so one can get to sleep as quickly as possible after being rudely awoken by whatever.
The little skills remind me of a song that holds a special place in my family's past. We played it at my grandfather's funeral, a uniquely Irish gentleman that gifted his full name to my father and brother, and my #1 son's middle name. Take a listen, and realize that it is the small things that make the biggest accomplishments.
The Old Man
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