{"id":36,"date":"2012-02-04T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T03:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fathertime\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-02-06T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T06:14:04","slug":"tough-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Tough Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I mentioned the other week that I lead something of a binary life. When the girls are with me, I’m full-on single dad. When they’re not, I’m all about me. This isn’t how I thought I would be leading my life, but I’ve managed to adapt to it fairly well. Every now and then, however, this binary life forces me to make some tough calls.<\/p>\n

For instance, the Super Bowl is happening tomorrow. I’m no football fan (and less of a football commercial fan than I was a few years ago), but everyone and their brother will be at a Super Bowl party tomorrow night. My church is hosting a Super Bowl party for young adults (whatever that means), so I figured I’d go. I don’t have the girls this weekend, so the party would be a good opportunity to socialize with adults.<\/p>\n

However, my ex has been invited to a Super Bowl party. (Remember: Everyone and their brother.) She asked me if I wanted to have the girls for a few hours or if she should get a babysitter. (A babysitter for the Super Bowl? Good luck with that.) That meant I had a tough call to make: Go to my church’s Super Bowl party on my own, in an attempt to have something of a social life. Or take the girls with me to the party, have a completely different experience there, and probably leave early since the girls will get bored.<\/p>\n

Tough call.<\/p>\n

I opted to have the girls stay with me for a few hours. What tipped the scales? Sunday falls in the middle of the seven days in a row I don’t get to have my girls with me that happens twice a month. I dropped them off at school yesterday morning, and they’re with their mother until Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

I know I need time on my own to rebuild my social life. But I also know I don’t like going seven days in a row without my girls.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how the party goes. Hopefully the girls and I will have a good time there.\u00a0 If not, that’s okay. We’ll head home and hang out, and that will be fun, too!<\/p>\n

Image: “A Balanced Diet<\/a>,” Rebecca Weaver, Flickr (CC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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