Finally, something light and happy to finish off some thoughts on parenting. I’m writing this while Autumn is napping. She naps 2-3 hours every day. One great thing about staying home with her is that I get all that time to myself.

Below is a list of the things I do with my time.
1. Read. A lot. I’ve read more here than I ever have.

2. Cook. Bread, chocolate covered cream puffs, caramel sauce, popovers, and dinner 4 nights a week.

3. Clean. I’m home the most, so I do a lot of the housework. I’ve never done so much sweeping in my life thanks to our windows being open 24/7/365 .

4. Surf the internet.

5. Board Games. Unfortunately I don’t get to play them while Autumn sleeps. So I do the next best thing. I think about them, read about them, watch videos about them, and join in online discussions about them.

Having the rare privilege of spending so much time with my daughter is pretty amazing when I think about it.  But so is having nap time. Have I squandered much of it away? Yes. But I’ve also read a lot of good books and cooked some tasty treats. Because of all this free time I can now make some pretty great bread, I can recommend to you a board game that you are guaranteed to like, and I can have an intelligent conversation about the science fiction genre and its answers to the question, “What does it mean to be human?”

Autumn isn’t too far away from not needing naps, but I’m going to hold on to them for as long as I can because they are one of the best parts of the day.

And she just woke up. I gotta go.