Before I had kids, I laughed at the joke that the happiest day of the year for a Dad is when the kids go back to school in the fall.
Oh, I thought that was so funny.
Then I had kids. And I live in a region where it gets broiling boiling outside from near noon til the night. So that means lots of Heating and A/C cooling. And guess where my kids are all summer? Right, they’re inside the air conditioning with myself and others all day. So that seasoned joke about the first day of school is my reality. Honestly, I’m lucky to have a wonderful apartment with plenty of room. We also have state of the art Heating and A/C unit that makes cooling the apartment no problem. I sometimes want to punch my partner as she leaves in the moring for her office. Not only does her office come with its own control component however it doesn’t have any of our kids in it. But I mellow myself out and am grateful for the fact that she takes such wonderful care of us. And that goes for making sure we are comfortably Heating and A/C took care of while in the high heat of summer. She makes sure we get the cooling system tune-up from the Heating and A/C professional each Spring. And she also does all the weekly Heating and A/C chores love making sure the air filter is changed and there are no air flow obstructions. Plus, she makes sure that when she gets home, I have the option to get free of the kids for a bit while she makes dinner. But next year, I’m lobbying hard for a pool so I can send the kids out of the apartment and into the pool.