Two

Kieran and I had a run to the Metro Centre today, it's my dads birthday and he wants shoes so we went to get some. Kieran ended up getting some trendy belt buckles and a new XBox game, we got said shoes and then headed home.

It was a quick day out but once there was a new XBox game home was a great pull and it seemed to be very important to get back there as soon as possible.

It's strange now that Kieran is making that extra spurt of growth, he may be the youngest of my children but at 14 genetics has made him the tallest and its almost hard to remember him as a child now. I'm glad I have so many pictures to remind me.

We are settled into our pattern of life now, he spends 8 nights with me and then 6 with his mum but there is still the fact that he has to jump between two homes. I possibly treat him a little softer than I did the other three because they didn't have to live like that. I often wonder what it must be like for him, I'm his father, I have 49 years of life behind me but he is living in a way that I never had to and have no concept of.
Sometimes I worry what it must be like for him to have to juggle the life of two parents in the mind of a 14 year old.

My Dad snapped an excellent picture of him on the guitar a few weeks ago.

Everything that I wanted to be as a teenager he seems to be managing.

I wonder if he will also manage my dream of fame?

When we were on our way to the shop I was singing along in the car and it turns out that my voice is starting to get itself retrained. Must be all those trips down to Milton Keynes singing along to myself for four hours at a time. Kieran said I had Lego House almost pitch perfect "Couldn't tell the diffrence at times" he said. I have been pondering a bit about getting into another band. I may ponder it a bit more, I think I would enjoy it.

As it wasn't too cold yesterday I decided to have a go at the weeds in the front garden. Kieran decided that as I was doing 'real work' there should be some sort of photo record so he called me names suitable for old men in the garden while I swung a spade around and killed weeds.

These were the first photos I have seen of me in a while and I noticed that the gym seems to be doing its work. My arms are building up again as well.

We are in hope of a warm Easter, it would be nice to be able to go out to a few places and there are some places that I really want to take him.

Next week is already looking like a busy one. I have prep for Infosec down at Reading on Wednesday, a day at our MK office on Thursday and a huge catch up of work at the office Friday and Saturday.

It's so busy. I am even in the office for two hours every morning over the next few days. It works out well as Simon is at work and needs a lift and Kieran doesn't get up until 10am at the earliest so I still get a couple of hours work in to try and catch up.

And once this project is done I have another three on the burner. Better get those arms ready...

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[just a girl]

So grown up!