As part of yesterday's adventures (the first post of which is HERE), we had dinner with my mom and two brothers. Mark's wife, Heather, was there and all the kids were present. Cory's wife, Risa, was at work because they do a similar things as my wife and I, working opposite shifts to tag-team on the kid.
Cory has a son that's about a month younger than Trey and Mark has 3 boys and a girl. The youngest of the boys is about a year older than Trey and the daughter is a couple years younger. We put all the boys at one end of the table so that the adults could visit. 5 boys, ages 3-9, all sitting together with an amount of freedom that was roughly the equivalent of "do what you want as long as a parent doesn't have to step in."
Heather is a stay at home mom with the 4 kids and I have to say that my brother has got the easy job. It wouldn't matter what his job was, he would have the easy side. She's like supermom and makes it all look very easy. We asked her if she would help us with Trey if we ended up moving into town and my wife and I ended up on same or similar shifts. She said that she would be happy to do that. My wife asked if she was sure and if it wouldn't be too much work.
I looked down at the boys' end of the table. Trey was at the very end, sitting there quietly watching the other boys. Jaxon, Cory's son, was sitting even more quietly if that's possible. He wasn't really paying attention to what the other boys were doing. My wife said that she thought it would be good for Trey to play with other boys and that it would be good if it was with a family with similar standards.
I laughed.
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