Happy Saturday, Char!
I hope that you had an awesome Friday yesterday! I’m not happy that Mom made y’all miss school again, and angry that she screamed at you for not knowing how to do something that nobody’s ever taught you how to do. It’s not your responsibility to start the car, make coffee, or get yourself up for school. I hope that you understand that, and aren’t being told otherwise. If it’s something that you’re interested in, I can teach you how to start the car, but, only if you want to, and only to keep your from getting screamed at, not because it’s something you need to know yet. I hope that you didn’t miss anything significant at school Friday, like any tests or anything. Let me know, if so, and I can reach out to your teachers, and make sure you get a chance to make them up, if so.
I still haven’t heard anything back from Aunt Dani, so, I’m guessing that CA is a no-go. We’ll need to all talk together, and decide whether we want to skip a trip, or find somewhere else to go instead. Unfortunately, I think that if we still took a road trip somewhere, we’d kinda be forcing it, and just going somewhere to go, and wouldn’t really have a good destination. I’m still open for discussion about it, tho. I’m not really pumped on celebrating Thanksgiving, and haven’t been for a long time. Maybe we change our family tradition to celebrate something else, in it’s place. Come up with a new title, cook a different type of food, etc. I won’t force that, but, we can at least talk about it. :)
I hope that you have something planned for your Saturday, and don’t spend the whole day sleeping and playing on your phone. I’m going to try to get out to IKEA today, to replace the lamps. While I’m there, I’m going to look at chairs, and see if we can replace the living room recliner, or, if it’d just be better to keep the empty space for now?
Lastly, I want to talk about an idea I had, about separating our time here, when you’re all home. Instead of trying to force family time, and having it turn into endlessly searching for a good movie to watch, or wasting time waiting for everyone to end up in the same room together, we can talk about some other ideas. With a seven day week, we could each spend two days together, then have one family night, or, something similar. Something we can discuss, at least.
Love,
-Dad
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