My Experiences as a Father... March 5 to April 4, 2003 (47th month)

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Monday, March 31, 2003
Sometimes Maeve wants to move, and talks about what she wants in her new house.  Other times she resists when Jill suggests that we get a new house.  Maeve will tell Jill that we haven't worn out our house yet.  Jill told Maeve that our house was worn out before we even got it.  While that's not exactly accurate, it could definitely use some more revitalizing, in addition to all of the work that we've already done.
 

Thursday, March 27, 2003
We got the Veggie Tales Jonah movie that Maeve and I saw last October.  Maeve and Hilde keep asking to watch it, and they are getting to know every line in that movie as well as their other favorites. 

Jill got very frustrated with Maeve not obeying, and pointed out that God had a whale eat Jonah when Jonah didn't obey.  Jill and I joked about her putting a picture of a whale on a stick and chasing Maeve around with it.  Jill admitted that it was a "bad mom" moment.
 

Sunday, March 23, 2003
I was gone this weekend for a men's church retreat.  After I got back, Maeve, Hilde and I were putting birdseed out Hilde's window when I saw what looked like the neighborhood stray.  I picked up Maeve so she could see.  She said we should catch it again, and "tell them not to let it go this time".
 

Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Tonight a guy came to bring me a case of Tropicana orange juice, and tell me how wonderful it would be to have a Rainsoft water treatment system for my house.  I had prepped the kids, saying they needed do lots of distracting things, like running around and climbing on my lap.  I thought I could count on them.

Maeve was better than I could have hoped for.  She fell, cut her lip, and sat on my lap bleeding and screaming.  She had a good seat to see all of the water tests that the guy was doing for pH, hardness, chlorine, etc.  Those really were interesting for her.

Hilde was a great help, too.  She ran laps around the kitchen with her grocery cart, with the man trying to dodge her each time she came around.

The man still took two hours to be convinced that we weren't going to buy anything.  We got the orange juice, learned that our water is pretty darn good (all of his tests didn't give him much to complain about), and that a Rainsoft system to make it better would cost about $5500.
 

Tuesday, March 18, 2003
The cat we caught by Sunday morning is gone.  The animal shelter was not easy to work with.  They didn't return my phone calls, and it was hard to find anyone there with all of the coffee runs they had to make.  When we did find someone, they didn't seem too interested in helping, said they would not come get the cat, and would even charge me $10 when I dropped it off.  Still, it's nice to have the stray out of my yard.
 

Monday, March 17, 2003
Tonight I told Maeve it was time to put on her pajamas.  She said she couldn't put them on because she had to go to a Creative Memories' party, and you have to wear regular clothes to those.  I said she had to tell her friends to have their parties before her bedtime, or she would have to be allowed to wear pajamas.  Then Maeve decided that it would be a Creative Memories pajama party, and everyone would be wearing pajamas.
 

Sunday, March 16, 2003
Yesterday we set out a trap for the neighborhood stray cat.  By this morning we had it.
 

Saturday, March 15, 2003
Jill had a Creative Memories party for Jeanne today.  I had Maeve and Hilde all day.  After some shopping in the morning, we went to the library in the afternoon to see a presentation about sled dogs.  A fellow had brought his dog, sled, ropes, etc.
 

Thursday, March 13, 2003
Jill dropped her mother off at the airport this morning for her trip home.

All I know about Edith's feelings about coming up to help when Jill had her surgery was that she didn't like coming in the winter, because she didn't like the cold.  As luck would have it, this winter we got about 24 inches more snow than last year, and it was the coldest that it had been in a decade.  While Edith was here, we got lots of snow, and there were whole weeks when it was between 5 and 25 degrees for the entire week.
 

Sunday, March 9, 2003
A friend of mine asked me to come over to see about upgrading some software on her computer.  My only requirement was that Maeve and Hilde got to come.  As soon as I sat down at the computer, they started moving things from room to room.  One thing that really impressed my friend was that they took her dog's bed, move it from the living room to the foot of her bed, and put a stuffed dog in it.
 

Thursday, March 6, 2003
Tonight it sounded like Maeve called Jill "gappy", referring to the gap between her front teeth.  I have been calling Jill "gappy", but I didn't think I had done it in front of the kids.  I asked Maeve what she was saying, and she claimed to be calling "Grandma".
 


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