Simply Magic

I have officially been a single father for 151 hours. I have to say so far it's been a delight and a terror. But at least it has been exciting, and never boring.

I have been in action mode since a day before I left, over a week ago, and I don't feel that I've slowed down once. It's been a constant agenda of running around, phone calls, and traveling just to get things in order. But I'm so glad to be back in terra cognita, my hometown, my stomping grounds, that I feel I have the strength to do whatever is needed of me to get things sorted out for my daughter and me.

I've got an appointment to get her into a school tomorrow morning, in Senior Kindergarten. Really, I think she is ready for grade one, because she is already reading at a second grade level, and has pretty good math skills. But I think she would benefit from going to kindergarten and grade one first so she can develop some social skills first, since up to this point she hasn't had much interaction with the rest of the world. Also, I can speak from personal experience that being skipped ahead a grade at too early a point can have weird consequences within the school populace. I'm sure some of you nerds reading this can relate.

She spent the night having a sleep over at her cousin Owen's place, and the reunion between the two former playmates was simply magic. I regret not having a camera to capture the moment. We picked Owen up at daycare with Drew in tow, and Owen literally exploded out of the sand box and ran over to Drew and hugged her like crazy. Then, like a polite little man, he went around to all of his friends introducing her around: "David, meet Drew!".

Still a lot of work and settling in to do, and a lot of financial snafus to work out on my end of things, but we are moving forward, and I've told her lately that I'm "working hard to make things better for us." I think she understands.