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SAHD Friday: Re-establishing Roles

April 3, 2013 / / 0 Comments
My family.
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If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you know by now that I am the stay at home parent in our house.  Over the summer however, my wife was home on maternity leave with our youngest son being born and all.

In September, she went back to work.  It has been interesting trying to re-establish our roles in the house and get back on a good routine.  Even this post is about a month in the making.  I have been trying to write it for that long without success.  I have been doing way too many things and putting this post off.  I have another one on procrastination in the works, maybe I should combine them!

It was quite a change when she went back to work, especially for the kids.  We had spent 3 months with her always home.  Now she was leaving again and I had to step back up as the full time homemaker as well as internet guru, company president, blogger etc.  None of these are hard, none of these are different than what we have been doing for years.
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My TSA Nightmares begin…

April 3, 2013 / / 0 Comments
LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 01: U.S. Transportat...

LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 01: U.S. Transportation Security Administration supervisor Nick Fox (R) and another TSA employee demonstrate an advanced image technology (AIT) millimeter wave scanner using new Automated Target Recognition software being tested by the TSA at McCarran International Airport February 1, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new software detects potential threat items and displays them on the outline of a generic body displayed on a monitor attached to the unit instead of using passenger-specific images. TSA officers will no longer need to use a remotely located room to view the images, which will make the process more efficient according to a TSA spokesman. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Last year there was much speculation and fear associated with the TSA and flying in general.  It hasn’t eased up.  If you haven’t read already, we are headed to Florida in 3 weeks for my daughters Make A Wish trip.  We have known this for a while now, and, of course, getting to Florida from Utah means flying.

With that I know that the TSA is imminent.  I began to research the new security procedures and things we would have to do.  It didn’t encourage me.  I started figuring that I may as well make the best of this and get through security with as little hassle as possible.  Now, with the trip so close, I have a plan for dealing with security.

I did not have a plan for my nightmares about dealing with the TSA and spending the whole Make A Wish trip in a jail cell.  The jail cell came after handing the tickets to my wife and saying, “Have a nice trip” as I launched myself at the TSA Agent who went above and beyond his duty in the pat down search of my 11 year old daughter.

His wandering hands earned him a broken nose and disfigured face.  I may not be a finesse boxer but I have spent considerable amounts of time on the heavy bag just hitting hard.  It was no different in this dream.  The first punch caught his nose, the second his jaw.  By the time he fell and I jumped on top of him, there were 3 other agents there pulling me off.  I woke up after that so I don’t really know if I made it to Florida or not.

I hope that was not a prophetic dream.  I am still trying to take a deep breath and make the best of the TSA thing, but I have 4 kids to get through security.  Even writing this post may doom all of us to full body scans and pat downs but I have nothing to hide so it should be ok.

Image from the backscatter advanced imaging te...

Image from the backscatter advanced imaging technology (AIT) machine used by the TSA to screen passengers. This is what the remote TSA agent would see on their screen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Any horror stories from you all about the TSA, or better yet, good stories that will take me away from all fo the bad that happens to show up every day.  Let me know in the comments.

 

 

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Put it all in a blender…

March 8, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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Another week of spotty writing huh?  Yes that is what you have here at Catharsis of the Bogue.  This holiday time of year is full of so many different stresses I have had 3 migraines already this month!  I have a couple of posts about that in the works as well.

Today I have been running all over finding presents for the kids.  So we are not just buying meaningless crap but we have a tradition now, where we have to make presents for each other in the family.  All of the kids make stuff for each other as well as Mom and Dad.  Of course they still get toys but this is so much more meaningful for them.

They love to figure out what they can make for each other and how to keep it secret.  It is getting harder now that we have done this for a couple of years now.  They have to think harder.  They have to actually think about what the other kids would like.

I would tell anyone to do this for their kids.  It is such a great way to get back to the true meaning of Christmas and away from the cliche’s and commercial BS.

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You Need What?!?!?

June 6, 2012 / / 6 Comments

Yesterday I received one of those virtual slaps in the face that parents get as their kids grow up.  I am talking about my oldest daughter Leatha today, she will be 10 in August!  There is another one.

It has been a wild 10 years, full of new things since she was born.  I can’t hardly remember what it was like before her though.  (Warning: this post will probably be filled with cliches but I really mean them!)

And now a list of virtual slaps in the face,

1.  A Girl! My first child is a girl! August 2000

2.  She can walk!

3.  She can talk!

4. She can run around and jump in puddles like it is the most natural thing in the world!

5. She can read!

6.  School!

7.  Little kid toys are too small, Big kid toys are almost too big!

8.  Baptism at 8 yrs old!

9. Top of the 3rd grade!

10. Maturing at a frightening rate.

This last one is what I am on about today.  It is very humbling to have your kids hit a point where they need things like deodorant.   Now, Leatha is not one that is trying to grow up too fast.  She is still trying to hold on to being a little girl.  But, alas, she is growing up.

This past week she has grown enough and matured enough that she needs deodorant now.  I am not complaining, I am not mocking this at all, it is a coming of age that everyone goes through.  I just feel old and like a parent. Bah!  I am just glad that my wife is in charge of the menstrual stuff, I don’t want to do that one.

I only hope that there are a few years that go by before that one because I really worry about the state of the world and the people in it.  My wife had an 11 year old in the ER last week who was pregnant.  My daughter is going to wear a suit of armor and I am going to escort her everywhere in about 6 months.  With a club.

What do you all think???

-Justin

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