First day of school

He comes in from work and heads to the dinner table. He puts down his stuff and immediately logs into his laptop. After fifteen minutes, he asks me how my class was. I tell him but I can see he immedately stopped listening to me.


Then he asked the girls while still reading the laptop and doing something to his cell phone, "So how was your first day of school?"

The answers were the same: "Okay."

Nothing else. Now I ask you, isnt that sad? Isnt it sad that a 2nd and 4th grader have a single word answer to that question after the first day of school?

Whats even sadder is he was satisfied with it.

They talked to me about it from the minute I saw them in the school playground. And on the way home. Then each of them sat with me for 30 min and told me what happened at school. Then other little tidbits came up during the evening.

He has no idea what he is missing!