because my school has special summer classes i didn't teach very much in august. i covered another teacher's adult classes over two days last week. we were able to manage our schedules so that yoshi could watch after hiroyuki while i was at work. at first there was a minor panic when i told yoshi that he needed to be home by 6:30 and he wasn't sure he could make it. the ahem*idiot*ahem actually suggested i leave hiro alone if he wasn't home before i had to leave. grrrr....

after i got home both nights yoshi was actually quite sweet and thanked me for always taking care of hiro. bedtime routines have been up and down around here over the past month so i guess yoshi got the brunt of a hard night....just leave your kid with your husband for a while and he'll get the idea of how much you actually do!

over the weekend we didn't get enough sleep, mainly because we got up so early on thursday morning. with a baby you really can't sleep in in the mornings, even if the baby is sleepy, too. and i have rarely been able to sleep when it's light out so i just can't nap when hiro does (and too often he naps when i am driving so it's too damn dangerous for me to sleep when he does...) so on our way home on sunday night we were in crappy moods (leaving friends and fun times behind) and yoshi was grousing about this, that and the other thing. usually that sort of thing pisses me off but i was in such a bad mood that i was more, 'whatever'.

so, monday wasn't much better, and i had to go into the heart of kitakyushu about a part-time job. it really wasn't all that troublesome except for the drive home, which was smack dab in the middle of rush hour traffic. i finally got to munakata at about 7:30 and went to the store to get something for dinner. i finally decided on goya champuru even though it was going to take time. by the time i got home, however, it just seemed too late and hiro was just tired. so, yoshi made himself some dinner and i went to bed (after a shower and cleaning up hiro of course.)

yesterday i spent longer at the ice cream party than i had anticpated. before pie i called yoshi and asked him if he was going home soon. he told me he was; i said i'd be a bit longer but would be home soon. i asked him to please get some tofu (since he ate the tofu for breakfast that morning) and to wrap it in a towel to take out the water. well, i got home at around 7 pm and yoshi wasn't there! ah well, might as well start dinner, so i prepared the goya. and waited. fed hiro. and waited. finally, i called yoshi and he told me he was still at work! they had changed their plan and he had some more work to do. well, i got mad at him and said, 'i wish you had called me, then i could have picked up some tofu before i got home. now i'm tired and i don't want to go to the store.' yoshi apologized and then started to feel guilty. so, on the way home he picked up some yakitori. since i had already made rice and miso soup it was nice not to waste it's freshness. and yoshi promised to call in the future....