As I am going through this new year, I am excited and nervous. I have noticed that I am not as nervous as I used to be. Certain 'unknowns' about work have come as a daily thing to me and I am getting used to being a large part of a small business. I love it a lot more than what I was doing last. I enjoy talking with the people, working with my helpers, and my worst day is still not as bad as it used to be. I have also learned something I was sure I would never learn.
I was scared because when I became a daddy, I had not read all of those books my wife had bought for me. In fact, I think I skimmed through the first chapter of one book and that is all. She read over 100 books front to back and that was when she was pregnant. Then she continues to read the books labeled 'Our First Year' and so on. She knows everything it takes to raise a child with the right nutrition, sleeping habits, learning and motor skills development, and other stuff like that. I pretty much just do what she does. When she says lil bit needs this or that, I do it.
Before I know it, I have learned to be a daddy. The funny thing is that lil bit has taught me. Between the H1N1 (Swine Flu) outbreak that lil bit introduced to the household, to the excessive vomiting in my truck that left her mom and I sick, to the teething and fits she has taught me how to be a daddy. I am a germaphobe, but I had to let that go about 2 years ago. Lil bit has taught me to just let it all hang out and don't worry about the fact that she is chewing on something in the trash, or got a cupfull of urine water from a toilet that I accidentally left open (true story), just let it roll of your back (or splash on the bathroom floor like lil bit did to the urine water and got daddy in deep trouble with mommy).
After a long hard day at work, I love to get lil bit into my truck and we drive around doing the 'air drums' to daddy's music. We rock out pretty good. Or when she smiles when I walk in the door and acts just like my dog, that no matter what, they are REALLY happy to see me! Chillin' on the couch and eating Cheetos, and watching the Olympics can be really fun. Or trying to eat snow for the first time only to find out that it is really cold and tastes like water.
You see, we take life too seriously because we have to. Our work demands it. But we don't have to be that way when we are at home. I might have to 'fake it' around a client during the day, but when I come home, we will just put on some of that good daddy music and rock out.
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