Well, you know it’s bad when my first post of the week is on a Thursday…

Honestly, I think I have a little bit of the vacation blues.

That and work has been stressful. In short, they are in the process of reorganizing our entire department.

Suffice it to say that I am no longer work on the thing I have been doing for the last seven years.

In the midst of this our IT director has changed, we are rewriting our entire system, and all of our processes are different.

Blah. Enough about boring work.

T, you tried your first solid food at dinner yesterday.

It was green beans.

Not baby-food green beans.

I mean, legit from the dinner table green beans.

You tried and spit out the three or four bites that mom gave you.

And you did not like them at all.

I love you.

-Dad

It was all swimming all day long with your cousins today.

Honestly I feel like I spent half the day back and forth trying to find out who was with who, was headed where, and needed what.

After a cool seven hours of swimming, we all ordered Double Dave’s pizza and ate dinner in the lobby in front of the little store.

The sky opened up a little while later and it began pouring rain on us while we were at the s’mores station roasting marshmallows.

Consequently, the movie on the lawn (Trolls 2) got moved inside to one of the large conference rooms.

K, you fell asleep on the floor before it ended.

I don’t think I can keep this schedule up.

And judging by your tired eyes – I don’t think you girls can either.

Let’s work less and take more vacations. Ok?

I love you.

-Dad

Another full-full day at the pool and lazy river today.

There were only three notable differences between today and the last two days.

One, H, you made a friend and spent half the day playing with her (her name was Ellie).

Two, K, you were done with swimming and ready to go back to the hotel room by lunchtime.

And three, the cousins got here around eight this evening.

They showed a movie tonight on the back lawn but H, you were the only one of us that got to watch.

T, you were headed to bed and asleep before it started (mom stayed with you).

K, it was so late, you were done and ready to go back to the room after 10 minutes (I brought you back to the room).

H, you miraculously stayed for the entire thing! You sat with the Daves and they brought you back to our room when the movie was over.

You were dead on your feet with exhaustion – just as a seven-year-old should be on a hot summer night.

Ok. I’m off to bed now too.

I love you.

-Dad