Archives for August 2007

I think I woke up in the wrong house twice in a row! Because the house I woke up in contained two happy boys who were ready early and were NOT fighting and were not complaining about anything and were not demanding lunch money they’d forgotten to ask for the night before or any of that! I think they’ve been taken over by aliens!

And you know what? This morning they each actually woke up late! And they were still ready early! It was amazing! Often, if a child is running late, and it looks like they won’t have time for a relaxed breakfast – they’ll have to grab a granola bar and run type of day – they will holler at me, “MOM! Please, can’t you just take me?!” But when it’s already that far into the morning, it is hard to work things out. The three of them take two different buses – one leaving 30 minutes prior to the other. So the second bus rider, which this year is only Sammie, either has to be ready early so they can come with us, or in a really good mood, so they can finish getting ready and get on the bus without my being here. Their dad sleeps late and is not in any way, shape, or form, a morning person. So he’s just in bed – not watching them get on the bus, like their sweet, protective mama does.

So anyway, this morning, Shawn asked me as soon as I got him up – and that really gave me enough time to say, ‘yes’. Actually, I told him ‘maybe’ – if I can get everyone cooperating for that, we’ll do it. And they did. And I did. And it was really rather quite lovely. It’s funny, that now driving them to school is kind of a treat for all of us. In Texas, it was just an everyday occurence. But it gave us some time to be together, laugh, and enjoy each other. It was nice.

I do hope the aliens who’ve inhabited my sons’ bodies don’t leave too soon – I’m enjoying them!

Look, if I do so well as to survive this oh-so-wonderful period of my parenting years – I want you to promise me that you’ll award me some fantabulous award, mmmmkay?

They are for sure wearing me out. And I think I just realized this morning that the worst issue you had with your child during their ‘bad toddler’ years (be that 2 or 4 years old, or whenever the nightmare was for you and your sweetpea) is pretty much the same issue you will face as God pumps unGodly amounts of hormones through their sweet litte demonic systems!

I’m serious! The exact same issues that I had with Shawn at age four, (ahh, yes, reminds me of a little bugger in Dallas I know) are the ones I am dealing with ON A DAILY BASIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

Let me give you a good example. This is not quite what happened this morning, but, it’s close enough. You don’t butter his waffles for him – he’s mad at you for not helping him out. You do butter his waffles for him – he’s mad at you for doing it wrong.

I know that none of you, least of all Tracy, can relate to this! Not even in the slightest!

So it is just this constant, ‘Mom’s making my life miserable’ thing and it is completely exhausting me! It’s this constant back and forth – you’re supposed to go left, you’re supposed to go right, no, no, no – you’re just doing it WRONG!

Let me tell you, by the time he got his books and left this morning, I was so fed up! I actually slammed the door after they (the boys) went out to wait for their bus.

And then, sappy me, always thinking – something is going to happen to one of us, and the last words we shared were in anger – I went back outside after a few minutes to say goodbye to them again.

I’ll be so glad when we get to that responsible, gentlemanly, deep-voiced, would do anything for his mother, older teenager stage.

Yes, it sounds like a pipe dream – I’m well aware – but, both of my brothers got there. So – it could happen. Rare? Yes, but, it could happen.

Of course, then you know I’ll be crying about how I miss my sweet pre-teens!

Sounds like they came by that ‘can never be pleased’ stuff honestly, eh?

I can’t wait to tell my RPG-head son about this!

“Oh, Shawn! Come here, darling, Momma’s got something to show you!”

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