I doubt many of you faithful readers have ever read by bio on the “About” page. I hate writing these. I never know what to say about myself. Frankly, I usually read my own biography and think how ridiculous it sounds…but, this time, I worked on it some more until I was comfortable with it. Not in love, but comfortable. I remember trying to figure out how to put my crazy, over active mind into words that would describe just how all over the place I can be. ”Crazy on a good day,” just seemed to fit.
Law Man often gets frustrated with me because I am constantly doing and/or thinking about at least half a dozen things at any one time. My only response has been, “Try being me. It’s not easy to be in my head.”
When mornings like today happen, I am all out of sorts.
Last night we came home exhausted from the pool. I took the kids out there to have one last summer hoorah. I kept telling myself that other people do fun activities after school. Their kids are not too tired. I should do more than bring them home and do homework. The boys will be fine. Right? WRONG!!!
My kids were crying on the way home telling me that I “made them stay at the pool too long.” Mind you it was only 6:45 pm.
I get them home and Law Man took over. I could not hear one more whine or complaint so I go hide in the basement laundry room better know as the dungeon. It is my one safe haven. Big Guy says that witches must live down there because witches live in dark dirty places. You get the picture.
Law Man puts them down and goes back to the office to “prepare for trial”. The night is fairly quiet other than my old, very stubborn, very deaf dog apparently coerced her love interest, the neighbors black lab, out onto the streets. My dog made it home…..as she always does. Their dog got lost. After a street wide search party, the dog was delivered home safely only to puke all over their carpet as soon as he walked in the door. Yep, neighbor of the year, right here.
I go to bed. Law Man is still out. I toss and turn because no matter how much I want to believe I am a feminist, I can never go to sleep until my husband is safely home. I don’t think that makes me less of a feminist, do you? There I go, off track again.
Sometime in the middle of the night Big Guy comes running into our room screaming and crying. He had a “bad dream.” I look over and Law Man has made it home. FINALLY, I can get some good sleep. I tell Big Guy to go back to bed or sleep on my floor. You know, I am NOT going to be that parent who lets them get in my bed every time he has a bad dream. AND he is 6 years old weighing in at a hefty 65+ lbs. This works for about 20 minutes and then he starts whining that he wants to get in our bed.
Law Man wakes from his coma to utter something to the effect of, “Take him away, I have to sleep, I have trial tomorrow.” So, away we go. Big Guy and I climb up to his single top bunk and hunker down for what I know will be a miserable nights sleep. I toss, he turns and kicks and my face ends up smashed into one of the wood slats that is supposed to keep us from falling onto the floor.
Time goes by….I am not sure what time it is when I hear little guy. Coming in from outside. As in, outside of the house. Roaming the streets like the neighbors dog. I call for him and he comes up. ”Is daddy still here?” I ask.
“Yep.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yep.”
I look out the window to see if Law Man’s truck is out there. Nope. So, I tell Little Guy that daddy has already gone to work.
“No. His car is out there. Let me show you.” He says as he drags me outside to point across the street and into the neighbor’s driveway. The car is gone now so he tells me that he must have already left.
“Why would dad park in the neighbors driveway?” I ask.
Little Guy shrugs his shoulders and goes in to eat breakfast. At this point he shows me his two slugs that he has been carrying around. When I ask where he found them, he calmly told me that he saw them as he was walking around outside looking for mom and dad. GREAT! We eat. We rush. We get out the door. We arrive to school in the nick of time and Little Guy decides he wants to be my cling on. I strip him off return to my car.
I call Law Man and thank him for waking us up before he left. His response, “Did you not get the boys to school on time?” WRONG THING TO SAY!!! I said a few things that ended in, “all of this because you have ‘trial’, you are a lawyer for goodness sake. Lawyers go to court. Why should it disrupt our entire family?” He told me I was hyperbolic and I could not help but laugh at the crazy morning.
I came home to get a few things done before my pilates class at 9:30. How do I know it is at 9:30? Because I made an appointment for 11:00 and the only reason I would do that is because I wanted to be sure to make it to pilates. About 9:15 I realize that the class started at 9:00 and I had only made the appointment for 11:00 because I did not know what time pilates started. ARHG!!!! It is hard to be in my head!
I am still trying to figure out why Little Guy would think that his dad would park in the neighbors driveway. Does he need therapy?