On recent events

I haven’t posted a whole lot recently for various reasons. On Friday my parents sign the final papers to sell the house I grew up in since 5th grade, the movers will come and load up their things on a big truck, and they’ll leave in the wee hours of Saturday morning to drive to their new house in the Boise area of Idaho.

Due to the outstanding employment and economic state of California, both my parents got laid off from their jobs within about a week and a half of each other and they simply cannot find a way to start over in California and still retire at a decent age. Though extremely painful, I know their decision to move to Idaho is the best option for them right now. My extended family, with the exception of a handful of people, has made very little effort to be a family with my parents, my sister and I ever since we were little. So now Keli and I, along with my sister and her family have to try and establish ties with people who we don’t even know for our children’s sake. Sunday was especially difficult since it was our last Mother’s Day with my mom before they move away.

Now that Keli is back at work from maternity leave I had to change my schedule for my jobs. So for last week and this week at least, I work at the Press Democrat from 4 a.m. until about 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. Then I got home from that job, get Bailey ready for school while Keli gets herself ready for work. Drive them to work and school then Mason and I go home and the idea was that, since he sleeps a lot, I’ll sleep when he does then take care of him until Keli gets off work at 1 p.m. Once she gets off work, I go to my second job from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. Shortly, I’ll watch Mason until 4 p.m. then work at Sonic from 5 p.m. until 11 p.m. The hours will suck, and I’ll miss being home with the family in the evenings but, it’s what we have to do right now. I don’t really mind the work that much, especially with my parents moving I’m able to lose myself in my jobs and push the emotions back until I’m ready and able to deal with it.

The whole ‘I’ll sleep when Mason does’ thing isn’t exacly panning out as I anticipated because I forgot that he too, is going through an adjustment and he spent 8 weeks with him and mommy and now it’s 5 or so hours every morning with just Mason and daddy. We’re learning how the other person works and just as you need to learn how a co-worker, neighbor, etc works, I need to learn what makes Mason tick. He’s a cute, happy little guy who recently learned that he can use his baby vocal cords for things other than screaming. For a boy so little, he sure has a lot to talk about. It’s fun seeing where he’s ticklish - seeing where exactly his dimples are when he smiles. See what he likes to stare at, what he makes him happy. In all of this, there is also the ever so simple Baby Troubleshooting 101 in which the following usually takes place between Daddy and Mason:

Mason: WHAAAA!!
Daddy: What’s wrong little man? You just ate and burped…
Mason: WHAAAA!!
Daddy: Oh, you need to be changed…ok
:: couple of minutes later ::
Mason: WHAAAA!!
Daddy: Now what’s wrong? You’re fed, burped, changed and clean.
Mason: WHAAAA!!
Daddy: Well, maybe you want to walk around
Mason: WHAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Daddy: Okay, I guess not.
:: Daddy gets suckered into a sadistic game of putting Mason’s pacifier in his mouth, only to turn away and have it get spit back out. Daddy puts it back in only to have it spit back out a moment later, followed by baby screams. Rinse… repeat… ::
Daddy: FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDAH, CHILD, KEEP IT IN YOUR MOUTH!!!

He’s a great baby and I can’t wait to watch him grow up and see what his personality is, what his likes and dislikes are, and all that other growing up stuff.

Right now, it feels like there’s a huge flat heavy stone bearing down on me. I know it’ll get easier over time, but there’s just a lot going on right now, as I touched on in this post, and sometimes I with I were in a tag team match where I could tag someone else and let them have a few go rounds while I kick back for a bit.

I guess I’ll just blast the music from my ‘Music to fuel the angry soul’ play list on my iPod and let the music smooth the edges for a bit.

Related posts:

1. What a weekend
2. Down to a manageable two jobs
3. Busy, busy, busy…
4. I’m still alive
5. The need to post, but a lack of words

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