Musings of a technophile

For the past few weeks Ethan has been blocking the door, holding my shirt,or doing whatever he could to stop me from going to work. The reason? “I don’t care if we have to get a new house and I never get toys again, I just want Daddy to stay home with me!”. That breaks my heart anyways. I normally tell him that I have to go, and he will just say “Well I’m coming too”.

So, last Friday – he got his wish. I woke up early and we ate breakfast together and got dressed, before heading off to work. We even put a child seat in my car so he could ‘ride in Daddy’s brown car’ to work (I only ever drive my car to and from work, the rest of the time we ride in Mariel’s van). Mariel even packed him a little ‘lunch’ bag.

We got to work @ 7:30, my work opens at 8. I brought him in to my office and sat him down at an empty desk next to mine. I had created a local user account on the computer the day before for him – with only an internet explorer icon that went to playhousedisney.com. I then gave him some papers and asked him to “sort” them by putting them away in the drawers of the desk. After he finished that, I had him show me where all the buttons were on the computers and monitors that site behind my desk. He played some games on the Disney site for a minutes while I checked my email, before I took him back to the break room for “snack”.

After we got back, I had him sort some more papers and then help me find a book off the bookcase (we have an IT bookcase with a bunch of older IT books on it). Then I had him point out all the orange, blue and green boxes on a SQL diagram I have on the wall next to my desk. About that time, it was 8:10 or so, Mariel came to pick him up – his work day completed.

He says he had lots of fun. I congratulated him on his “hard work” and how he did a “great job sorting those papers”. He even talked to me about it when I put him in bed that night. Although it was no “take your kid to work day”, I think he’ll remember it for a little while at least.