A Single Daddy’s Blog

Single Parenting from a Father’s Perspective.

Well, Easter has come and gone and so has Anastasia’s birthday. Once again, Anastasia is spoiled. I know this, yet she is my only child, so, am I wrong for spoiling her? The jury is still out on that one.

Anyway, I changed my phone number recently because Anastasia’s school will not call me long distance.

Let me explain.

I only have a cell phone, no house phone. I can’t justify getting a house phone when my cell phone is with me all the time and a house phone would cost close to the same amount, and in addition to, my cell phone bill. So when I moved to Arizona from Las Vegas I didn’t change my cell phone number. Although it has caused an issue a few times at Anastasia’s school because they will not call a long distance number.

So I used this ‘reason’ to justify switching to AT&T and getting a new shiny iPhone. I love the iPhone, although I am not to thrilled with AT&T. We will see how it goes. So that is the ‘new’ part.

Now on to the surprising part.

About a year ago I broke up with a girl I was dating for almost six years. I have written plenty on this and I refuse to write anymore about the relationship or break up, although in the past few weeks I was a little surprised.

After almost six years you would think that anyone I was dating for that long would have contacted Anastasia just to wish her a Happy Birthday. Now, I understand that I changed my number and I will not get texts sent to the old number, although the old number does still forward to the new number and will forward for the next year or so. I just thought it a little strange that I or Anastasia did not get a call, text, card, nothing from my ex. Like I said, maybe it is the fact that she did, and I just didn’t get it, who knows.

I haven’t said anything and I am pretty sure Anastasia has not thought about it. So, I guess it’s ‘no harm, no foul.’

Anastasia has AIMS testing this week. I guess I should probably find out what AIMS stands for although I know it is academic testing for the children to find out how they rate among the rest of the country. I have heard that it also determines the amount of funding a school will get  the following year based on how well or how poor the children perform.

Guess I will do some research today. ;)

Today is Anastasia’s birthday! She turns 11 today. We celebrated with our family this past weekend, I made cupcakes for her class today. Then we are going to the Apple store tonight to get her one last gift. I gave her the option of splitting the cost of an iPod Touch for her birthday. She wants one really bad and I could not justify spending the another $200 when I already spent that on more on her other gifts. ;)

Anyway, Happy Birthday to my little girl. She is growing up way too fast.

I have been swamped with new clients, Anastasia flooding a bathroom and being out of school on spring break and a bunch of other things that have decided to elude my memory at this point in the middle of the night.

So, I will be back writing soon, till then, don’t let your little ones experiment with q-tips, a wad of toilet paper and a toilet bowl, it’s just not worth the $200 plumber bill. o.O

I learned that in spanish class when I was in high school. Of course I learned it in spanish and I still remember how to say it in spanish, I am just not sure how to type it.

Anastasia has had a tough time keeping her mouth closed these days. To the extent she has completely pissed off the assistant principle and a few teachers. She argues with everyone. Disrespects most everyone and generally has a bad attitude.

Nothing is different in our lives. Nothing has changed. Nothing new has started. So why, why is she acting out like this?

She got to bite into a bar of soap last night for cursing and yelling. I am not happy about it, although what else can I do? I tried the nice talks, the mean talks, yelling, spanking, grounding and just about everything else.

She has spring break coming up, maybe she just needs a break from school.