Well, the Summer has started, with an amazing, ridiculous bang. Can I just tell you how happy I am to have you here? Regardless of the craziness of the trial last week, a certain, crazy Greek woman living with us for about a month longer than anticipated, and unscheduled work trips out of town, I am so enjoying you here, where you belong.
The near future is NOT going to calm down at all, between moving to Audubon Park, getting you into school there, to multiple work trips to places all over the country. But with “our village” of people in Orlando, we will make it work, and we will have fun doing it. YOU are why I do it all.
So last night, we waited out the rain, and headed to the pool, after your phone call with your mom. I know why WE both love the pool nights. It’s our, uninterrupted time together, just like the phone call was, when you were living in Port Saint Joe. Our phones are away, the TV is away, and it’s just you and me. We work on your flips and twists. We come up with new games. We talk and we laugh.
At Tony Chinchay’s house on Sunday, you and I played catch in the pool, and I realized that this was the first time I had ever truly played catch with you. It was fun. You have a good arm, and you don’t “throw like a girl”, as the old, obnoxious saying used to go. I’m sure that we will do that away from a pool, and that will be the same experience, where we get our time together, alone and uninterrupted. It’s so important that we have that.
We have challenges ahead of us, in so many things. Our relationship will be totally different, in that I will now be the parent when you are in school. I can see how things were for you in the last five years. You expect me to be like it was in PSJ. While it won’t be like that, it also has to shift from “All Play, All the Time”, like it has been. I look forward to creating the communication for this to work for both of us.
We will have disagreements. You will have limits on your use of electronics. IT’S IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO! It’s not my idea. It’s the proven opinion of experts, that you cannot be on your phone or tablet all the time. For you to have MEMORIES of your life, the things that give your life meaning, you have to be PRESENT and creating art, music, connections with people. Very little of that happens with your face in a phone. That will be one of our challenges. But we will create an environment that works.
Our Life 