Running the Spectrum

Wife: Do you feel tired?
Husband: Yes, I do feel tired.

Our boys run a spectrum of age that is both fun and challenging. They offer each other different relational options - which often means they wrestle a lot. Like a litter of wolf pups nipping at each others ears.

These "pups" have a wide window of napping schedules and dinner options and play schedules. It stretches bounds of parenting patience and planning to great measure. Surely the challenges will only continue as they grow and gain their independent ways and means.

When people walk into our home, they walk into an entry room that we use as our "toy space". There are lots of action figures, vehicles and gadgets. There is very little pink, a general avoidance of guns, a haven of cheap plastic happy meal.... crap things.

Often, toys are strewn across this room, this entry room - and walking across is similar to playing Frogger and not advised to those with bare feet. We are working with these pups to put their toys away when finished - but it is still an exhausting and nauseating task.... for me -  don't know about my other half.

As I pick up the mess, again, I try to think of it as a religious experience. Something that is done with repetition to the point of being no bother to me.

It doesn't work.

Today, I have run the spectrum and am happy the bed is willing to catch me.