2026
Lincoln’s rehearsals meant no skate date for him and with both Jamie and me available we decided to go to Picturedrone for food while we waited for him.
It was good food but too expensive for what we got, a nice chicken salad a burger cheesy fries and Moroccan wings and £11 for a margarita its just a good job the company was first class!
Reagan went out with her mates including Joe Foster…she’ll never admit it but Joe is her boyfriend lol anyway…
Straight after work I headed to Macclesfield to drop Lincoln off for an hours worth of rehearsal. I packed me darts and cue but as I parked near the Stage Door I just thought I am going to have an hour here.
I nodded off apparently because it seemed like no time at all my phone woke me with Lincoln asking if I was ok to pick him up.
Annoyingly I don’t want a new watch Im happy with the one I am wearing but as is the way my Fitbit Versa 2 stopped holding charge a couple of days ago, so I was forced to buy a new one.
After looking at a hundred types of watch with all kinds of features it was between two a beautiful looking Garmin which was perfect for when Im surfing able to tell me sea depths weather GPS tracking emergency alarms the lot for £1200 or a versa 4 for a hundred quid.
I got the the Versa 4 so it can count me steps when I walk Billy up the canal but I am really going to kick meself if I take up surfing in the near future and need a barometer on me wrist!
The greatest achievement will always be your children
The rest is just stuff
True!
Liv came over for tea tonight and I got to meet her properly while we sat tonight eat the meal, and she lived up to the hype really pleasant chatty and seems a great match for Lincoln, he is 14 and seems to be finding his way in the world. Hopefully he took head of the talk we had with him and he does talk to his mom and says they are taking it slowly just enjoying each others company, which is great.
Reagan says she has no interest in that side of things but constantly refers to Joe a boy who she has “no interest in” even though he has persisted in being her friend for a few years now and has regularly asked her out but she has said no and this has never put him off… I think once they go to college she may soften and allow him in who knows but for now she’s playing hard to get and he keeps trying
In my opinion they are both doing OK its hard as a parent to ever know you are doing a good job but looking at them both I believe they know what a good relationship looks like because of the example we show them every day and I hope they find the same one day!
Pre COVID I would go out every Sunday to see me mates and although I miss it times change and non of us ever got back in the Sunday Club which is a shame, but talking to John last night he suggested meeting up for a pint today…Sunday, and I said why not.
We did invite others but at such short notice it ended up just me and John and I had a brilliant time like we’d never been apart a sign of true friendship that we just spent the next few hours talking drinking and doing the Mail on Sunday Crossword just like old times.
It became very nostalgic when John read out 34 across the answer was one of the very first answers myself and Dave Myles bonded over doing the Crossword in the King’s Lock possibly 30 years ago when I used to do it and use and encyclopedia to get the answers I didn’t know pre Internet.
Apparently its pronounced female not le’mure as I said it back then when I l something m something r and went through the dictionary to fill in the blanks.
They still take the piss out me for that mis-pronunciation…
With Jamie away at a Bible convention it was down to me to get Lincoln to Macclesfield for 12 noon and back home at 3. I took Billy for a walk through to leaving for Macc.
Went to see me dad in-between drop off and pickup and listened the Man City vs Chelsea in the FA Cup final on the way home, and watched the second half at home
After realising she will never give up on Reagan she also realised that not going to the MIT conference is cutting your nose off so decided to go as soon as her daughter got home from school and downloaded.
She felt better doing that she did that but Reagan barely gave her 5 minutes if that so off she went, why not?
I was once asked by Jamie “Do you want children?”
It was a pivotal moment in our future and my response was not immediate 18 years ago but as always once I had resolved the question in me head I said “Yes!”
Since that moment we have created this life we now live which I would not change for the world!
Jamie never had that thought or doubt ever in her life, she was put on this earth to be a mommy, and there is NOTHING in her life above that! That includes me!
When Reagan was born and quite closely followed by Lincoln her life felt complete and she was as happy as she could possibly be! She was complete she was a mom and from that moment, her whole life has been directed towards her children before anything else.
Reagan is under a lot of stress right now, which Mom is desperately trying to help her through the most stressful part of her short life.
Mom this week now wakes up and instead of moaning about not getting enough sleep which we always do lol she gets up to make pancakes or bacon or both in the hope that her baby can eat before a GCSE exam
The issue today and every day is the scorn disdain and how horrible Reagan is towards the one person in this world that will love and support her no matter what!
I confronted Reagan tonight about how she’s makes Mom feel when she dismisses every effort Mom makes just make your life as good as it could be with “Ugh She’s just being dramatic!”
Reagan showed me tonight how little respect she has for her mom and that as a teenager she knows best…
You are wrong Reagan
I am your second biggest fan and I will ALWAYS support your biggest fan and protect her from imploding because she thinks she’s not good enough
You get one Mom and you got the best how big of a dick are you gonna feel when you realise that?
I just want to be there when you do….
Work then pool