One of Those Days

It was just one of those kind of days for me when it just didn't stop.  It's starts early and just stays busy all day.   I have been preparing drain pipes so we can relocate our ice machine in hopes to fix a water leak that we have under ground somewhere.  When the ice machine is running we end up having water seep through the wall and into the basement.  So, we ran a new drain with plans to relocate the ice machine.  There were several things that had to happen over the last few days in order for us to make this happen and today we were there.  I got the supply water line run and relocated the water filter to the ice machine and once I had everything ready Dave and I moved the machine.  Then we had to tie it in.  We discovered that the plug had melted on the machine.  Well, this kind of thing creates a delay because we had to change it out.  We also had customers coming in after close again and we took care of them which pushed us back further.  Well, finally around 7:30 it was done and appears to be working and draining fine.  That pushed me back from getting home.  When I did get home I found that the kids were across the street with our friend Annie.  Natty does a cooking thing with her each week and so I came home to a prepared meal.  So grateful for that.  The kids came home, we ate, we outlined some homework needs for the night and then I had to run to a meeting.  I got home from that meeting a little after 9 and sat down with Jack to do his math homework.  He will not do it if I am not sitting with him.  It is just one of his things.  I'm trying to motivate him to get on it by himself as an incentive for his train simulator game but so far he is determined to wait until we can do it together.  Anyhow, it was a non stop kind of a day and leaves me a bit on the tired side.  Very grateful for Natty and Annie making dinner.  That was a huge help.  Grateful for Natty helping Andy with some of his homework as well.  Well, that was a bunch of rambling on about a busy day.  I would erase it all and start over but then I would have to think more and I'm kind of done today.  It is hard when you have things that have to get done and you know that there are other things that have to get done waiting for you at home and then there is a meeting that you are supposed to be at and suddenly your feeling overwhelmed and guilty that you are not able to be doing everything that you need to.  I'm pretty sure I am far from the qualifying round of the father of the year award.  I've probably been disqualified from even receiving an honorable mention on that one.  When you are going at it alone it is nice to have friends that step in and lend a hand.  And that is enough rambling at the close of one of those days.