The cruise directorship is apparently still active. The boys woke a little after 7:30 and played games for several hours before deciding they were bored enough to come to me for advice. I shouldn’t call it advice. It felt more like a demand for activity—a call to action in the passive aggressive form of , “what are we doing today?”
There are a million ways to respond to that question, but unless the answer includes an address, time, and dress code you are likely to get more questions. You are likely to get so many questions that taking down a kid starts to seem like a realistic option. So I said, ‘you guys decide’
After a considerably long resulting silence I offered, ‘we will go get haircuts at 11:30’ that was enough to chase them off for a while. They wandered back around 12:30 anxious to get on with it and that is how we ended up here watching my son’s Afro being shorn and shaped while he stares in a mix of amazement and uncertainty. After there will be lunch.
The evening is a mystery to me. I’m not a very good cruise director, so I’ll probably argue for a video game and a movie. Maybe I’ll finally get to see Incredibles 2.
Some thoughts:
1. Finished another audio book. I’m getting to the point where I really need to start creating.
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