About 7 pm, a part of me started to be aware of how ridiculous the barrage of input I have recieved over the last 24 hours really is, and that I needed to get it down, to process it. Here is a small snippet.. a cross section...a sampling, as it were. Enjoy.
Colin crying- mad for 12 min straight because I pushed the buttons on the dryer, instead of him. He was so tired from being up in the night, that I made him take a nap. He is here on my lap at 10pm. From this vantage point, that may have been a big mistake. "Mrs. Lawrence? This is the school nurse. Jackson hit his head on his desk, and can't stop crying. He says his throat hurts and he has a low-grade fever.." Colin wants a snack and (long story) I end up force feeding him a banana dipped in hersheys syrup because I KNOW he will like it if I can ONLY GET IT PAST HIS TEETH... The only day in the last 120 days that it rains- the favorite blanket is outside, cold and wet, from a picnic. Did you know that some french count buffon claimed that all american animals were tiny and feble because of the poor, swampy air and soil, so thomas jefferson requested that a stuffed american moose be sent asap to france to defend america's honor (fight!fight!) and when it finally showed up a year later, it was rancid, bald, and the antlers were missing, but the shipper threw several deer antlers in the box "to be attached as the sir would like"?!? I am convinced that was the birth moment of amazon prime's 2 day shipping, but NO! eric doesn't want to use that in his american revolution report. If colin grabs my face and turns it to him to show me how driving his toy car over my brush is just like riding the cart over the bumps in the target entry way one more time... Darcy turns down corduroy, even tho they are perfect skinny jeans like she asked for and i tried on 15 pairs of SKINNY jeans, in the tiny thrift store changing room, with a 4 yr old and a swollen bum knee (a labor of LOVE, i tell you) and they were 3$!! Com'on Darcy! Work with me! Tim, did you pick up sydney on your way home from town? oh. I'll go get her. Did we really just polish off an entire bag of chips at dinner!? I ate WAY too many sweet potato fries (which are NASTY from the freezer isle), but I don't admit to them being nasty and make everyone eat theirs cuz I want them GONE so I won't have to eat them for leftovers for a week. Should darcy take choir (lame class-they watch movies, but easy A) or AP Biology (hates her ap class, getting a C, but likes biology) next year? She is convinced she has to decide by tomorrow... Jack alternates between screeching with laughter and crying- he has a fever and wants me to hold him - "I just need AAAAPPPLE JJUUUUUUUICE!" In two square inches of my left forearm, I have a bruise, poisen oak, AND a splinter. I'm just sayin'. Colin woke me up at 4 in the morning (by whacking my face..that kid HAS. TO. STOP. TOUCHING. MY. FACE.) to tell me -
"I am sad cuz jackson is dwiving away in da car WIFOUT YOU!!" ..
He sighs in the dark, next to my bed...
"I had a dweam bout dat."
At least I think that is what he said. I took an advil PM to try and get some sleep and there seems to be a moose sitting on my eyeballs...
hahaha sorry that's not what you want too hear
ReplyDelete1. Is Colin giving you all of the love that he has, or trying to kill you?
ReplyDelete2. Why do you have a bum knee?
3. That is a crazy story about the moose and Eric should totally use it.
4. I read 'lame class' as 'lame a__' and thought, whoa, Beth really is on one.
good grief
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