Greg Pilling

Every day I try to get up a little earlier that everyone else in the house so that I can get a little work done in peace and quiet. P&Q is hard to come by for me (and all parents, I am sure) because during the day I am at work with management responsibilities and the phone ringing fairly often. After work my children want attention – play video games, going for a swim – then there is dinner, a little TV and conversation with my lovely wife and then to bed. The only time for the P&Q is early in the morning between 4 am and 6am.

For Father’s Day this year, my gift was P&Q. I went for a motorcycle ride by myself, had breakfast by myself and thoroughly enjoyed my time alone. I must be a little weird.

This morning was one of those nice quiet mornings. A little coffee, the laptop turns on and I start checking emails and news. Then a little voice says “Hey Dad, let’s do something fun”. Troy has decided that he likes my quiet time and has got himself out of bed to come join me. Grrrr! How can I say no? This is not fair I think, then I recall my mother’s words “Payback is a bitch” or something like that because she actually doesn’t swear.

Troy wants to watch videos of car crashes, or play video games with car crashes, or draw pictures of car crashed. Is there a theme here? What happened to our deal that he would stay in bed until 6 am? How come a 5 year old gets to wriggle out of a verbal contract like that ?

He sure is cute though. Car crashes on You Tube, here we come…