Regular readers of this blog are surely confused and reading some other blog that actually has new posts on a periodic basis. In any case, Jennifer and the girls have been gone for a week and I’ve been mostly been bacheloring around the house and hanging out with my friends. It has been a lot of fun, but I realize now that although I often feel like I can’t get much done because I have so many responsibilities to the family, I believe I have proven that when the responsibilities are gone, I’m less productive. I haven’t gotten nearly as much done around the house as I wanted to. I ended up doing a lot more work than I had planned originally. My girls will be pleasantly surprised, I think, at the changes to their rooms, but probably the most significant thing that has happened is that I am more aware than ever of how much I am driven by the challenges of having a family. I guess I should have learned this lesson before when I took two months off of work, and felt like I wasn’t doing a lot more around the house than before.