In a house full of girls, it's just me
Welcome to theonlyboy.com. I live with my wife and 4 daughters, and this is the documentation of me, the only boy, in a house full of girls.
Hopefully, there will be some amusing anecdotes that you may be able to relate to. Perhaps in the future, I will invite other guys to relate their testimonies with being “the only boy”.
Thank goodness.
Now we just have to make it through January and our trip to Disney. That’s going to be fun.
Today was the day; both middle kids got on the bus this morning headed to school. It’s the littler one’s first day of first grade. She will be in school all day! Such a big girl. The older one is starting the 4th grade; last year of Elementary school. She towers over the other kids at the bus stop. It’s kind of funny.
“Mommy” got a little choked up. Of course, she was taking all kinds of pictures, so we have the whole thing documented. One of the other moms that she knows is having a back to school breakfast for the moms, so she’s “out with the girls”. 🙂
The baby and I are home alone. I’m working (aren’t I always?), and she is watching “Yo Gabba Gabba” and “Sesame Street”.
All an all a good day so far. I can’t wait to hear the first day stories when they all get home.
Yep. School starts tomorrow for my two middle girls. We’re spending a rainy morning at home while “mommy” goes grocery shopping.
I think August 23 is too early to start school, but maybe that’s just me. I guess I’m getting old. I find myself using the phrase “Back in my day” more and more these days. 🙂
A few weeks ago, while I was at the park with the kids, my wife was putting some stuff away in our basement storage room. When I got home, she pulled me aside and said, “I think there is a snakeskin in our storage room”.
I didn’t believe her, and thought she might have mistaken a loose piece of insulation or something for a snakeskin.
She was right. It was a snakeskin.
It was hanging down the back cinderblock wall from the rafters. So we had to figure out what to do about it. The next day, we called a guy that was recommended by somebody my wife’s mother used to work for. (there will be a test later, so pay attention). 🙂 He came and dug a 5 foot snakeskin out of the rafters in our basement storage room, and then… dug another 4 foot snakeskin out of our rafters. Yep. Two snakeskins. In our house. That means the snakes are in our house at least long enough to shed their skin.
He checks the rafters, and outside the house, doesn’t find a live snake, and says he thinks they might be getting in through the hole for the air conditioner pipe, and recommends that I seal it up during the day (the snakes like to go out in the heat). I asked him if they might be coming inside to find food (mice), and he said it ‘s possible, but they are probably only coming inside to shed that skin. I asked him if they might be “nesting” in the house; making babies. He said it ‘s possible, but they are probably only coming inside to shed that skin. I ask him if they could be on top of the ceiling tiles in my office, which adjoins the storage room, and is relatively open to the rafters. He says, “Oh, sure!” Great.
So we pay the guy, even though there is nothing he can really do, and he brings us back a “snake trap” (which is a triangular cardboard box with some glue inside), and says it might take a week to ten days to catch a snake.
OK.
So I seal up the hole, and go down into my office later that day, and realize I had left my coffee in there. I brought it up to the kitchen to dump it out, and out came a dead mouse. He had drowned in my coffee.
OK.
Then about a week later, after checking the trap twice daily, I found a new snakeskin (yeah, a NEW one) hanging in the same place as the first one. Really? Really!
So the trap isn’t working, the snake(s) is still here, and the family is freaking out.
So I had to do some investigating. I found that the joists of the floor above the basement stick out for the bay window in our kitchen, and are not sealed properly on the bottom, so that’s where the critters are getting in. I need to seal it up. I also need to take down all of the ceiling tiles in my office. I started doing that a week ago, and came across two dead mice. I’m sure I will come across more, but I need to move my desk and other furniture to get to them all.
What a pain.
Then, I was out cleaning the pool yesterday, jumped down next to the pool and what do I see? A baby snake. Yep. There are babies.
Great. Really? Really!