Omar

Often, I feel like I have something to say but not the time to properly form it between family and work. #mbnov

Saw these in the school library today!

Being social, even online, is something I wish I was better at but have accepted as something I find difficult as I’ve got older.

With that said, getting replies from people on micro.blog is my favourite thing about using it. It’s just nice. #ifthisisntnice

Elderly. Grandparents are elderly but never your parents, I mean, until they are. #mbnov

After yesterday’s I’ll advised kettlebell workout, today’s workout was just about moving a little. Good for the body and the mind.

Some photos from the weekend. It’s a little section of a bigger tourist attraction done up in an old-ish style. We just happened across it but it was fun. They had beer!

Omar’s Law states that a probability that a child will offer the correct leg/arm/hand/foot to that being offered to put on trousers/t-shirt/glove/sock is 0.

🦖🥰😂🦄🙃🌮🙁🎄

elise

I think my issue with the challenges is I don’t like to force it. I want it to be perfect and so I often just give up because it isn’t. And now I’ve completed the challenge again, by accident. #mbnov

My experiences are
You can’t force people to change
They have to do it for themselves

I say this as someone who,
at a point,
Found myself realising,

All the things I’d done to help myself,
Had been what everyone had always said,
You can take a horse to water!

#mbnov

I’m thinking about what binds us and how those things are not the same everyone we know.

A common interest. Work. A time. An event?

How some bonds seem solid, others only temporary and others that sometimes vary.

#mbnov

Beau Miles has a new video where he drinks wine found by the road and answers questions.

I enjoy his videos a lot, I like how he thinks, the videos are easy to watch. He did one where he runs a mile an hour for 24 hours and one where he eats only beans for 40 days. Recommended.

Hot pot!

23:06 Leaving it late. I am inflated by spending time with my wife and friends this evening.

Night and day.

Lyra and I are going away for the night while the grandparents try and keep up with the kids - which I’m trying to not worry about. Elise cried as we left and I just wanted to stay, even as I know it’s good for everyone to have a break.

One of the biggest sacrifices I make as a parent is eating things so my children don’t.

Cake, ice cream, chocolate, I eat it all so they don’t.

I don’t want to but I do because I love them.

This article in the Guardian of critics admitting to getting things wrong has me thinking of what things I’ve changed my opinion of.

Tried to do a workout. First Elise joined in for the jumping jacks and burpees. Then she got bored. A little while later, Yumo joined in in his own way and sat on my back for press ups. Workout was totally ruined… It was awesome!

Picking up the kids from school is such an amazing feeling, every single time.

For the first ten seconds anyway but I’ll take it.

I am always puzzled
By my feelings for Friday
The week is over! Again
The weekend is here! Again

I feel next week’s wave
Pull at my feet
Some gentle lapping
Or maybe a tsunami?

#mbnov

(I’m posting it now but it’s a work in progress, written in a break at work)

I know The World Waits™️ and the UK is now on lockdown again but…

Both our children slept through the night. Not a peep out of either of them. This is the first time that this has happened.

If this isn’t nice!

Stoop. Droop. Loop. Coop. Soup.

#mbnov ✏️

Christmas - it either feels too early or too late, never just right.

and the word is near
but all I can think
is the opposite
of how the distances
between us, currently
seem so great

#mbnov ✏️