Blog Number 68

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Kudos to the wife who reminded me as I was heading to the bedroom that I had not blogged tonight.  Read on to see if she should have just let me go to sleep.

Like most families, ours has a nightly routine.  Typically it is dinner, then bath / shower time (for the kids), then we do family devotions and then the kids are off to bed.  There is usually time for a game of chess in there or maybe a walk.  Sometimes we do popcorn or ice cream after bath time just to mix it up a little.  Right after the kids are in bed, the wife lays down on the couch and falls asleep and sometime later I wander over to the PC and blog.

Now, you are probably saying to yourself, "Jon, stop it!  Your exciting life is making me feel bad about my really boring one!"  Well, I am sorry.  I cannot lie, my life is just THAT exciting.

One thing that usually changes each night is who will give our daughter a bath.  She will be 5 in December and has not quite graduated to the shower like our son has.  Sometimes giving her a bath will be used as a bargaining chip, "I will take the garbage out if you will do the bath tonight."

Either way, a bath MUST be given.  The daughter keeps track of who's turn it is.  If someone gets two "turns" In a row, she is there to point out this unfairness.  You see to her, giving her a bath is a privilege.  She says, "It's your turn, Daddy." like it is a special treat or something.  As if we should be happy that it is our turn.  And she is serious too, and points out how unfair it is to my wife should she happen to do bath duty two nights in a row.  I don't know where she gets this idea from really.

Now the wife is all business when it comes to bathing while I (of course) tend to have more fun with it.  "Let's see if I can hit the ceiling with the water!" or "Let's see how many bubbles we can make with the body wash!"  It is no contest really who is the more entertaining bath giver.  Maybe I oversell how much fun I am having, who knows.  I don't miss giving my son a bath and really enjoy the fact that he is self sufficient in that area but I imagine I will actually miss giving someone a bath once the daughter graduates to the shower.

I think eventually though when she is all grown up, I will wish it was my "turn" again.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon