Honey, This One’s For You
Today, and for today only (ok, that’s a lie but it sounds good), I am passing the Pot-Shot Bull’s Eye over to my dear husband. I don’t think he’ll mind as he has been forewarned and didn’t tell me to leave him alone. I share many of my own snafus and fallacies with PulseonParenting and the time has come for my husband to do the same.
Although I am doing it for him.
For starters, he told me he read March’s post “And the Honeymoon is Over” and was rattled when the word “annulment” jumped off the screen. I think he was fibbing. If he had actually read this update on the kids’ morning routine, he would have known that “annulment” referred to the kids’ road to responsibility and not to our marriage. Gotcha.
Then, at supper that same night, we were engaged in our usual family banter which includes each of us sharing something interesting from our day. When my husband’s turn came, he said: “I was late for work today.”
Come again?
He is never, ever, late for work. Running late during the course of his day, sure, that’s typical in his profession as the unexpected often occurs. However, he is more frequently at fault for showing up at the day’s start before anyone else. So his announcement at dinner was newsworthy.
My husband went on to explain how he didn’t need to be at work until midmorning so decided to enjoy a little quiet time at home, reading a book and sipping some tea. Then his phone rang and his “Hello?” was greeted with a “Where are you??? and punctuated by a “Your nine o’clock is all set to go in room two.”
Being 20 minutes away from work, my husband broke the current family tardy-time record by 5 minutes. He blew our kids’ stats out of the water.
I suppressed a laugh (while, of course, thinking, “Blog post!!!) and asked my husband, “So what did you say when you got to work?”
“I apologized for holding everyone up.”
Yay for Daddy for having the integrity to take responsibility for his mistake.
Now he gets a timer for his reading spot so he won’t be late next time. Our kids decided that.
