Saturday, April 19, 2008
Karate Day
My internal alarm went off at 5AM because that’s when I thought Dana needed to get up. She’d actually decided to sleep in till 5:30 so we got to chat a bit before she woke up Darby and headed out the door to spend all day at the karate tournament. I stayed up and got to work, and had a reasonably productive day writing code. I didn’t catch up entirely to the number of billable hours I’d like to see by this point in the month, but I certainly got closer. And I cleared off a bunch of things for various clients as well as solved a few tough problems, so that was good.
The kids, meanwhile, were stir-crazy. Not only was mom gone, it was raining. We got through lunch and dinner (sloppy joes) and everyone was reasonably OK, but there was a sprinkling of fights and tantrums to make my day more interesting.
Dana got home around 9PM, just as I was putting our older kids to bed. Lindsey had had a 4-hour nap, so she wasn’t ready for bed. I finally ended up taking her to her own bed and sleeping next to her to get her to settle down.