After All

Its cooled down in the house but tempers have been hot.
Whether its just myself thats causing all this or something else I do not know.
The kids are nearly back in school, my son has been cramming books into his brain, and my daughter chatting away on her phone about last minute hang outs, and boys.
Damn it I am not ready to have that talk, you know the one, the one about rocks and pebbles in the stream?

I've made some personal strides in my art and am employed as a graphic designer now making enough to get us and the house back up to speed. My wife still works too though I hear less and less from her about her job.

We've been in a happy place for a while since things have been looking up but now there is some kind of rebelliousness from all of them and I feel like the bad guy.

My son left a note on his door that made me feel miserable and I didn't know what to think or say.
I asked my wife if she saw the note on his door and she nodded yes, "Did you say anything to him? That isn't fair to me you know."

"Well" she says, "Maybe hes trying to tell you something." I shook my head, frustrated and still trying to figure out what all of this sudden anger toward me is coming from.

My daughter hasn't said a word to me in a week now and any questions I ask are never answered.
My wife talks funny and keeps throwing verbal jabs at me whenever I try to make a point.
I've resigned to going to sleep early, and just making myself busy when I'm around the house.

Maybe its better that way no harm, no foul right?
Nobody seems to love me in this house and despite all the good things happening career wise all this family drama hurts.

Hopefully its just a rough patch they're going through, or maybe its just me taking things too seriously.
While I'm starting to feel uncomfortable in my own house I'm going to try to weather the storm.
Besides after all we've been through it would be a shame to tap out now when things have been much worse then this.