There are many people in this same boat, including yours truly. Keep at it brother! Better days ahead.
100 more days until the start of deer season. (This could also go in the best things in life thread - it’s a blessing and a curse)
When will I learn that no good conversation with the wife ever started with the words "listen to me..."?
Sort of the story of my life. At one time I actually thought being retired meant I'd be able to sit on my ass and only do the things I chose to do. One of the biggest culprits to change those plans of mine, besides my wife, is Mother Nature. Me: I think I'll mess around with my Chevelle tomorrow. Mother Nature: Yeah sure, right after you pick up all those limbs and try to repair all the hail damage I left you! Just keep plugging along, you'll get there.
There are, I can not begin to explain the pressure that goes with being a parent and the expense and the pressure to provide. I could manage the stress all day but when I did sleep it was high anxiety ground my teeth till all molars were broken, night terrors. Kids are raised bills are paid I sleep pretty good now.
Must be something we men figure out in our fifties.. I recently did the same thing just to remind myself that it doesnt work.
I have found letting her explain how it did not work to me with enough satisfaction for me these days. I may smirk a bit
Having to watch my daughter graduate tomorrow 1. One step closer to her leaving 2. Her school is the only one doing a covid ceremony, IE everyone in cars 1 kid at a time facemasks no contact with classmates etc. All other schools are doing it next month when there is no restrictions. My county has been steady at 188 cases 4 deaths for months and I know one of the people that died from it and he was in a coma with a fading liver and passed.
Good luck your daughter and congrats to her on her next adventure. My daughter left last year for MSU and she loved it and so did her dad. While you give me grief for not hunting anymore I have no regrets, I spent that time on the soccer fields, robotic competitions, and spending time with her before she sets off. If it was not for Covid I doubt she would be home today. She was supposed to be in Japan studying abroad. Your daughter deserves better for Graduation, it sucks for all the seniors who worked hard to get to this point, only to have this mess greet them at the end. She came in on 9-11 and leaves on Covid-19, she's at least have good stories for her kids someday when they complain about little things. I can hear them now, "Do you wanna hear about my senior year" . I know as a father you have put the time in and feel awful for her, fathers get it. I have a sense of what you posted about yourself and wife she will be just fine. Congrats again to the class of 2020 they deserve more congrats!!
Just wait till you move your little girl into her dorm room. I moved her in just me and her. I held it together when I hugged her good bye and said I love you, I made it to my pick up before I broke down.
LOL...first times difficult. But when you have to do that several times...lets just say the thought of going to pick them up takes on a different perspective. AU made them break down during christmas break. So they could clean. Storage units are a good thing. How they fit half a house in a dorm room is mind boggling..hahaha
I did not think that there was anything in this world I could love more than my little girl, until she had my grandson.
FINDING something from 99 years ago, when a kid was 15 years old and running his mouth on some social media.
