Out of Practice

Well hello there!  Some of you may remember me.  I'm "Daddy," that guy who appeared on the blog only in the third person over the last few weeks.  [Wow: I checked our list of posts, and I have written anything since June 14.  Sheesh!]  But now I've submitted my dissertation to the committee (defense in a few weeks), and Sarah's gone out of town, which means that I now have the time to blog, and I'm required to blog lest we fail to chronicle even a minute of Nicholas's life so that Sarah can see what we've been up to this week.

Anyway, I was going to have a theme for this post, which was being out of practice and out of touch.  It's only been a few weeks, really, since I've immersed myself in the minutiae of revisions, but in that time Sarah took over almost completely in preparing Nicholas for his day.  This means that I haven't really paid attention to what he needs to go to daycare.  Now, I'd be totally able to take care of him at home, feed him what he needs, put him to sleep when he needs a nap, and so on.  But for some reason the idea of figuring out his whole day at 7am was just throwing me.  I guess what I'm saying is that it's funny how quickly you get out of practice.

And now I'm realizing that blogging is also something that I'm going to have to re-learn.  But for now, Nicholas is daycare, and I found a Monday afternoon baseball game on TV (thank you, MLB Network!).  So blogging more can wait.