Saturday with Rhys.

.....It is late in the day on Saturday and I think that I'm going to make it. :-) Taking on the Rhys watch was hard work, but not in the ways I thought it would be. :-)

.....The Beloved Laurellen had a class to teach today in Glymm Mere. Originally her intention was to take Rhys along and he would be her teaching assistant. I offered to watch him for the day up at home in Seattle and Rhys was for it. I would say that I was a little nervous. Never having been a parent I can never fully appreciate what goes into a day of taking care of children and I never used to think of myself as 'parent' material. But I thought that this would be a good lesson for me and maybe I'd get a chance to get to know Rhys more.

.....I came on over on Friday night and got to spend at least a little time with Tamm. It's been two weeks since we saw each other last and I missed her very much. I have more phone time logged in over the past two weeks than I had for the past year previous to that. :-)

.....This morning Tamm took off a little after 6AM and it was just me and Rhys. Rhys took me on a tour of the house and then we had breakfast (waffles :-)). Then we watched cartoons for a while. How to make yourself feel old in a hurry, watch the Cartoon Network. Cartoons these days are soooo much different than they were thirty years ago (my god, THIRTY years ago!, when Hong Kong Fooey was ALWAYS on my Saturday morning schedule :-)).

.....Around 8:30 or so Rhys picked up his video game and went to work battling bad guys and I actually had the chance to work on circlets downstairs. Managed to rough polish a half dozen of them on Laurellen's wheel.

.....At 10AM it was time to start thinking of heading out. I grabbed a shower. Rhys got dressed. And we headed out to Zoopa's for lunch. Then we caught the 12:30 showing of 'Open Season' at the Southcenter Theatre. Funny movie! I love the Scottish Chipmunks, 'OI!'. :-) Then it was off on a couple of shopping excursions. On the way home Rhys was hungry again and talked me into a stop at McDonalds. Yes, I can be a pushover. When Laurellen reads this I'll be properly chastised, I'm sure.

.....Then back home at about 5PM. I cleaned up a little bit of messiness and now I'm sitting in front of my laptop checking e-mail. Rhys was VERY GOOD today. And on his best behavior. I think that we had a good day. I'm still very tired though. :-) It certainly wasn't what I anticipated at all. I was thinking that I'd be tired because Rhys would be actively busy all the time and would run me ragged with wanting to do everything and be everywhere. What really tired me out though instead was the constant vigilance. Wanting to make sure I KNEW where he was at all time, always paying attention to what I was doing to make sure that Rhys was included in my thought process, looking out for things that I would have to navigate Rhys around (cars driving through parking lots know give me a terror I never used to have :-)). By the time I returned home, pulled my shoes off and sat down on the couch, I was exhausted. :-)

.....But all in all it was a very good day. I really like Rhys and I learned a lot about who he is and his likes and dislikes. I think that I could do this again. But I'll still be very glad when Tamm walks in the door in another hour or so. :-)

.....Hope that everyone is having a good weekend.

.....Arontius / Aaron.