The Hollow Man

Taking care of my children for extended periods of time alone (more than 2-3 hours) is always difficult for me. I’m not sure what to do with kids and also I find their needs to be incredibly distracting from my own personal interests. Maybe I’m selfish, maybe I’m not. What I know is that this is the way I am despite having tried to change.

This week my daughters kindergarten is closed all week and my sons daycare is closed Wednesday through Friday. So far things have gone much better than expected. I had a good time with my daughter alone on Monday and Tuesday. On top of her enjoying herself and getting out of our apartment complex with just daddy I even managed to find some time for myself.

Today is the first day with both kids all day and it’s going much easier than expected. After the rain stopped in the morning we took a long walk to the local Krispy Kreme for some donuts. My daughter usually wants to go to Dunkin Donuts but there’s no seats on the first floor and with a stroller it wasn’t feasable so we took the longer walk. Anyhow that went really well. the only difficult part was the hike up the hill to get home with the stroller and a somewhat fatigued 5 year old.

After we got home The Hollow Son took a long nap and The Hollow Daughter entertained herself while I read a book. Overall good stuff. The afternoon has been much easier than expected as well with little whining or fighting. God is definitely watching over me this week and helping me deal with the stress that I usually feel when alone with kids.

Posted by The Hollow Man on Wednesday Aug 1, 2007 at 03:27 PM in Family | The Hollow Daughter | The Hollow Man | Praise | Prayer |
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I’ve decided that today I will take this blog live. Praises to God on this Sunday for insipiring me to get deeper in my faith and publicly explore what it means (to me) to be a Christian. It is my intention to blog at least once a week but probably more. I have been a regular blogger for the past several years. I have a personal blog (private, a professional blog EFL Geek, and a (group) language learning blog Let’s Learn korean.

In the next few weeks I’ll be adding my testimony and a about me page. I’ve already set up a side-blog for prayer requests and when I get a little more time I’ll add the ability to comment on the prayer requests. Currently they display on the sidebar where they will expire after they have been answered or are no longer relevant. If you register - link on the sidebar, then when you comment your comment will have an avatar and signature if you choose to fill those out.

I’ve already set up RSS feeds for entries and comments and may set up RSS for prayer requests, but that is a low priority for me. There are still a few things to do as can be seen in the previous entry. The biggest of those is the problem I have with my sidebar in IE - any CSS gurus out there who have advice, it will be much appreciated.

Looking forward to sharing my journey with anyone who happens to drop by and read.

lastly I would like to thank God for the safe and pleasurable trip myself and the family had this weekend. I will post a few pictures tomorrow. If you’ve never been to South Korea, you may find them interesting.

Posted by The Hollow Man on Sunday Jun 10, 2007 at 06:11 PM in Meta | This Blog | Praise |
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