Slacking off doing computer stuff

On a holiday such as today, Amy wanted me to be packing (we're moving in a few days), Ian wanted me to be reading to him, and I was actually blogging at one point in the morning, which Ian accidentally construed as doing "work work" on my laptop, which, of course, takes the lowest priority of all in his book. Accordingly, this was his criticism:


"Daddy, you're not doing anything that we want you to do. You're just working! Some of us want you to clean, some of us want you to read, and you aren't doing either of those things.


If you wouldn't be working on the computer, you would be reading to us right now."


[He has a point; I like reading to them, and I don't like packing.]


(January 18, 2010)