• Nov. 6, 2007
Hope in the face of the blissfully unaware
You gotta love kids. I mean, really. Don't you just love it when they are able to function self-sufficiently? Don't you just love it when they can (for an entire afternoon) get along really well with each other? Don't you just love it when they can make and clean up their own lunches? Don't you just love it when they can get their schoolwork done without having to be nagged to death(would that be my death or theirs)? Don't you just love it when they are extraordinarily considerate of Mom? Don't you just love it when they look out for each other without being asked? Don't you just love it when all of the above happens on the same day? Is this even remotely possible?
Yes, truly, if even for a moment, it is possible. It happened. It happened here at my house. It happened here at my house yesterday. It's as if all the stars and planets were aligned. My kids behaved more than perfectly yesterday. You'd think that I would have been overjoyed. You'd think that I was the best mom on the planet. You'd think that I had most certainly trained my kids to perfection. You'd think that my kids were some of the greatest kids to ever live. You'd think that I was living the perfect life. Well, if you thought any of that, you thought wrong!
My kids really did do all of the above yesterday, but they had such an ulterior motive. You see, they were doing all of that so that I would STAY ASLEEP! I was reading aloud to the boys and the story was in the language of the 19th century and was a trifle on the uh.....(shhh, don't tell them I said this) .....well, a bit on the boring side. I had the first inkling that I was having trouble when I felt my eyeballs rolling around inside my head. And that was only after about 3 pages. We had to get through 2 whole chapters. Two chapters. No big deal, right? I got a drink of cold water to invigorate me. Two chapters. This really is doable, right? I thought I could muddle through it. Apparently, I thought wrong, because I fell asleep on the couch. Asleep like a baby. Lily was asleep too, and so the boys and the little girls took it upon themselves to conduct their afternoon affairs in stealth mode so as not to wake me up. Apparently, they are quite the stealthy bunch. I slept blissfully unaware on the couch for nearly 2 hours.
I awoke to pattering footsteps and whispering voices that were saying, "SHHHHH, be quiet. If you aren't careful, Mom will wake up!" When you wake up to hear a statement like that, you know you're in trouble. When you wake up to hear a statement like that, you begin to wonder what planet you've just beamed up from. When you wake up to hear a statement like that, you fear that they've shot an entire bucket of 10 million air-soft bb's in the house (again.) When you wake up to hear a statement like that, you hope and pray that the house is still inhabitable and not subject to being condemned by the health department. Fortunately, the kids left the house in one piece and even cleaned up after themselves a little. Talk about shock and awe. I'd never have thought in a million years that they would do that. It's just so funny that all the things I chase my kids to do everyday was what they did yesterday while I slept. Maybe there's hope after all.
Comments
• Nov. 11, 2007
Naps!
Posted by donna2238
Naps are the best thing in the best thing in the entire world! WHY can't our government istitute an offical, required nap time? They come up with all kinds of crazy laws for us to follow( ever look at homeschooling laws of PA!).....why then cannot they not give it's people one law that gives us a sleepy time in the mid afternoon?
Oh well, maybe I should go into poilitics rather than the theater. Then again, maybe theater training is good for poilitics:0).
Glad you got your nap and no one died in the process!!
