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A day without mom

So today was a day without Mom. She was attending a woman's conference at church and was out between 7:45 AM and about 5:00 PM.

I can live with that. Mostly. My kids however, not so much. Well, specifically my son. He has a thing for mom that makes her not being in the house the most aggravating thing in the world to him... and to those around him.

It was actually a good day for the most part. I woke up early, made a big breakfast for the kids, cleaned up a bit, then took off to get my hair cut. The thing that made this day a little weird was that our big breakfast wasn't done until almost 10:00 this morning. We left the house at about 11:45 or so and made it to the barber shop at about 12:10. But it was packed full of hairy men that desparately needed hairs cut, so I decided I would drive around a little bit and come back later. An hour or so later.

Well, when we got backl the place was still packed. But I was in no mood to come back again after having already come back once today, so I decided we should stay. I had all the kids with me so we couldn't actually stay in the barber shop, but sitting on the sidewalk in a not so affluent neighborhood where you kids are either sitting in a stroller or playing along the sidewalk does make a man feel a little beggarish. However, it was soon my son's and my turn to have our haircuts, and so we handled our wait appropriately: with thunderous screaming and laughing.

After the haircuts were done, I took the kids to 7-11 and Starbucks. The two older girls wanted fraps while my younger two girls wanted slushies. My son really has no say in the matter since all he really does is scream anyway, and since fraps are so much more expensive that slushies, the boy got a slushie. Actually, half a slushie so as not to make him twice the energetic young man he is when he has too muh slushie.

We went to 7-11 first, picked up the slushies and a bag of Doritos, then went to Starbcks where we say down as a family and enjoyed our fine lunch of Cool Ranch Tortilla Chips and icied sugar waters. After we were done, we left for home after making a brief trip to the AT&T store.

Now I could go into all sorts of oogles and ahgles about what I saw and played with at the AT&T store. But that might ruin the surprise for tomorrow's post. And iDon't think iReally want to do that to you. Yes, iCare about you and iSincerely want you to come back so iCan post more delicious stories of dads and kids and all things i...