RMers with kids

[spike]

But they did get the same.

[Bammer]

But they did get the same.

By choice yes. I think the one could have made the team but kinda felt bad if the other didn’t. So he opted out.

Going forward though I think this will be a good example - they need to forge their own paths.

[spike]

My kid likes to open doors for me and happily say “after you” and by golly if I don’t feel like the most special dad in the world.

[Monkey_Driven]

We are close with a group of four other families with children the same age as my oldest. It's been very fun to have this cohort of parents to go through the journey together the past 6+ years.

We're getting to the point where our kids are branching off into different activities, qualifying for different things, exploring new interests, etc. Part of me is kind of sad that we won't be as close, but another part of me knows this is a natural thing and I should be open to meeting new parents and kids.

[spike]

How did you become close? Neighbors? Kids in same daycare/class?

[Monkey_Driven]

How did you become close? Neighbors? Kids in same daycare/class?

From work, college, and one group from daycare.

[Bammer]

Similar experience here (going back a couple years) and I was glad to branch out honestly.

Grew tired of our initial infant/toddler group.

[Chris_H_2]

How did you become close? Neighbors? Kids in same daycare/class?

From work, college, and one group from daycare.

Have you ever seen any of the wives naked?

[Bammer]

Nursing nip slip naked or boob falling out of bikini top naked?

[B]

Do you know the worst thing about having kids?

Board games designed by children.

[Monkey_Driven]

How did you become close? Neighbors? Kids in same daycare/class?

From work, college, and one group from daycare.

Have you ever seen any of the wives naked?

[dad]

How did you become close? Neighbors? Kids in same daycare/class?

From work, college, and one group from daycare.

Have you ever seen any of the wives naked?

MD has seen some things, confirmed.

[Chris_H_2]

How did you become close? Neighbors? Kids in same daycare/class?

From work, college, and one group from daycare.

Have you ever seen any of the wives naked?

MD has seen some things, confirmed.

see, if you really want to get to know someone, you just have to ask the right questions

[spike]

i think we all assumed he's seen his wife naked, chris.

[Higgs]

Do you know the worst thing about having kids?

Board games designed by children.

Oh. I thought it was the deep, entrenched, relentless guilt that you may possibly be failing them in some way with every single decision that you make.

[B]

Do you know the worst thing about having kids?

Board games designed by children.

Oh. I thought it was the deep, entrenched, relentless guilt that you may possibly be failing them in some way with every single decision that you make.

I played the damn game. What else do you want from me?

[spike]

Took the kid to meet the teacher day this morning. She was super pumped; really excited for this next chapter and see her grow exponentially.

Of course my biggest worry is how the drop off/pick up line works.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[spike]

Of course my biggest worry is how the drop off/pick up line works.

It’s odd that this is such a common source of parenting stress

I think it’s a combo of it being impossible to understand until it’s actually experienced, and also like the one new thing that day that is on the parent and not the kid, so don’t fuck it up. Lots of misplaced anxiety.

[dad]

tomorrow is the first day of school.

RIP summer.