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School Daze.
“Mom, you need to get up in the morning. Wake up and get dressed instead of sleeping.”
“Katie, I am awake.”
“Why do I always have to wear a long sleeve shirt?”
“It’s winter.”
“Brianna doesn’t have to wear a long sleeve shirt!”
“She’s wearing one.”
“That’s not fair Mom!”
“Katie, it’s freezing outside!”
“Where is my sweater? Is it in the dryer?”
“The only thing in the dryer is the couch slip covers. Is Alex awake?”
“Yes.”
“Darn it. Turn my light on please.”
“You need to buy me more sweaters for school. I don’t have any.”
“You have a closet full of sweaters, you just choose not to wear them.”
“No, I don’t.”
“Yes, you do. You have that navy one that was Addy’s. You said it’s too big, but it is just your size. You have three other sweaters!”
“That’s not true.”
“Katie, just look in your closet!”
“Those aren’t school sweaters. I want my pink one.”
“I don’t know what you did with your pink one.”
“I’m changing!”
“No Katie, you completely match. You look nice. Now stop arguing with me and stay still.”
“Ow Mom, you’re pulling my hair!”
“I’m not doing it on purpose, your hair has knots in it.”
“You’re doing it too fast! Ow!”
“You should have just left it in a pony tail, then it wouldn’t have knots!”
“No Mom! It’s your fault Mom!”
“Just stay still. Stop itching it, you’ll mess it up!”
“It’s itching me Mom!”
“It’s done. Don’t touch it. Get your shoes on, go downstairs and get breakfast.”
“I want a bagel.”
“Brianna! Come up here, I need to do your hair!”
“Katie, we don’t have time for a bagel. Get a fruit bar. Stop touching your hair!”
“You always make us eat fruit bars.”
“Fine, we do have time. I’ll make you a bagel. Now go downstairs and get your shoes on.”
“Brianna, Mom said we can have bagels.”
“Mom, Katie said we can have a bagel. Is she lying?”
“I’ll make bagels but we need to hurry.”
“Yes!”
“Come here so I can get your hair done.”
“Ow.”
“Stop moving away! You’re making it harder.”
“That hurts, you brushed my ear! Ow!”
“Stop moving then! You keep pulling away and it makes it harder to get the knots out!”
“I’m not moving, you keep pulling me that way.”
“Sorry.”
“Mom, my tooth is really wiggly today.”
“Great. Okay done. Go downstairs. Did you put your lunch in your backpack?”
“Yeah.”
“What about Katie’s?”
“Yeah.”
“Good.”
“Alex come upstairs!”
“What Mom?”
“Come upstairs!”
“What Mom?”
“Alex, come upstairs.”
“Hi Mom.”
“Hi Alex. Did Daddy change your diaper?”
“No.”
“Come here. You need to get dressed. We need to go to the store to buy Mommy some medicine.”
“Go store buy medicine?”
“Yes. Just pee, no poop!”
“Just pee!”
“How about your Eagles shirt.”
“Eagles!”
“Okay, pants. Socks. I smell your stinky feet!”
“Stinky feet!”
“Wait, shoes on.”
“I do it.”
“No buddy, Mommy do it. We need to hurry. Get sisters to school. Okay all done. Go downstairs.”
“I have bagel?”
“Yes, but lets go. Come on now.”
“You’re only getting half a bagel girls.”
“I have bagel now?”
“It’s got to cook buddy.”
“I have it now Mom?”
“It needs to go in the toaster.”
“I have it now Mom?”
“Fine.”
“Girls, do you have water bottles?”
“Yeah, I’ll fill it up at school.”
“Mom, Brianna never helps me. She’s always mean to me.”
“That’s not true, she’s just saying that to get me in trouble!”
“Stop girls. Eat your bagel. We got to go. First let me pee.”
“Brianna, you’re a mean girl.”
“Stop Katie.”
“Girls! Get your coats on and get in the van!”
“I go in the van too Mom?”
“Yes Alex.
“It’s cold!”
“I know buddy.”
“Stop kicking, Katie!”
“Katie stop kicking Brianna’s seat!”
“Brianna’s being annoying!”
“Mom, I’m just sitting here!”
“I have a drink Mommy?”
“Girls stop! Geez, enough already! Alex, your cup is at home.”
“Can you put Justin Bieber on?”
“It’s not in the van Katie.”
“Taylor Swift?”
“Nope.”
“Brianna, look at this.”
“Brianna, look at this!”
“Look Bra-nah.”
“Brianna!”
“Mom, Brianna isn’t looking!”
“Brianna just look at your sister! Stop ignoring her!”
“I can’t turn around!”
“Then just say that instead of ignoring her!”
“Fine, I’m looking Katie! What!”
“Remember when. Remember when. Remember when we got these shells. From that place. That place with the water, but the water was gone. That place was fun.”
“Girls, bus! Wait, let me pull up closer.”
“Bye Mom! Bye Alex”
“Bye Mom!”
“Bye girls. Be good. Have a good day at school.”
“School bus!”
“Yep buddy.”
“I go to school?”
“Next year you can go to school! Like a big boy!”
“I go on bus?”
“No buddy, not until you’re older.”
“Okay Mommy.”
“Let’s go to the store. We got to hurry though. Emily will be here soon.”
“I play with Emily?”
“Yep.”
“I like Emily.”
“I need Starbucks.”
“What Mommy?”
“I said I need Starbucks.”
“What?”
“Never mind.”
I started writing this for another post to share a bit of the craziness of getting the kids ready in the morning. I realized I was writing so much dialogue that it was just perfect for this prompt!
-Hemingway was famous for his super sparse writing. He used almost only dialogue in many of his works. Write a piece in which you use ONLY dialogue. Then link up Friday.
Peace and Quiet
I’ve been waiting for peace and quiet all day and when it finally made an appearance I was too angry to enjoy it.
By the time Brian came home from work I was overloaded and on edge. I had had enough of being Mom and caregiver and I was exploding over the tiniest of things. Things that wouldn’t bother me during regular circumstances, but I’m hormonal. Add that plus a long day of repeatedly having to say no and correcting a 2.5 and 4 year old’s constant room destroying capabilities and it’s a wonder I didn’t have a complete nuclear meltdown.
I was close.
Very close.
Brian must have sensed my mood because he promptly took all 3 kids to basketball practice without a word.
I text him: Thank you. I am so angry right now. I know it is because of my hormones and the events of today, but I still shouldn’t be this angry. But I am. I need a break.
I sit and stew in my own juices while weaving in ends of the custom crochet blanket I am working on for a friend. A hexagon blanket that takes hours upon hours of work. Really I’m not bitter about it. Seriously, I’m not. Promise!
I watched an American Gothic episode on Hulu because I could and Shaun Cassidy is a freaking genius when it comes to TV, though American Gothic and Invasion were canceled after only 1 season. Sigh.
Then Hulu shuts down on the PS3 and refuses to play anything else and it frustrates me to no end.
I receive a text from Brian asking if I want him to pick me up something for dinner.
I decline saying I’ll grab something from the freezer, only when I look in the freezer there is nothing that I really want to eat.
So I text him back and let him know that I would die for a hamburger and some fries.
They all come home.
Without food.
He never saw my text.
The kids are happy. Alex smiles and pretends to be sleeping in Brian’s arms with a big grin on his face and I crack a smile too.
My anger melts away.
I read Alex Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb; Goodnight Moon and Snuggle Puppy and sing him songs and prayers while rocking him to sleep.
I read Ramona the Pest to the girls and kiss them good night.
I come downstairs to find Wendy’s sitting on the recliner.
My husband is so very good to me. He went back out in the cold to bring me home a hamburger and some fries.
I got to chat with fellow writers on Twitter.
We watched a hilarious episode of Modern Family.
It’s now 12am and I finally have peace and quiet.
I started to write a post for tonight and it became all dialogue which fulfilled this weeks Red Writing Hood prompt over at The Red Dress Club. When I was done banging that out, I realized that what I should write about tonight was what happened today.
The anger that consumed me.
My family who all played a part in rescuing me.
And now?
I feel at rest.
A little peace and quiet can do wonders for the soul.
Is it bedtime yet?
What’s in your pantry?
No. Really. What’s in there?
For this week’s prompt, grab something out of your pantry and write a short piece – using all the words in the ingredients. It can be fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose.
Make sure you join in and link up. It’s fun, I promise!
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Today was challenging.
It was a challenge waking up at 12:30am to my dear sweet husband, after so nicely getting up to put Alex to bed when he woke up crying, informing me the reason Alejandro had been so upset was due to him puking up dinner all over his pajamas and bed.
It was a challenge waking up at 3:30am to my dear sweet youngest daughter waking me up ever so gently and informing me that she had thrown up all over her bed and the carpet.
It was a challenge cleaning up chunks of half digested mandarin orange segments from the sheets after letting them dry overnight, because I was too tired and had no desire to clean it up in the wee hours of the morning.
It was a challenge staying away from the two king-size chocolate confections of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Milky Way sitting in the fruit bowl, when all I wanted was to overdose on sugar.
It was a challenge drinking only water, when all I wanted was to down the ice-cold Vanilla Coke Zero in the fridge.
It was a challenge cleaning and disinfecting everything, when all I wanted to do was take a nap.
Today was challenging.
But.
Tomorrow is a new day.
A Snowy Day! (WW)
This snowy day Alex is getting over being sick.
Poor kiddo had the stomach flu yesterday and is still getting over it.
For a kid who has never thrown up before he did extremely well.
Only getting upset a few times with what was happening to him.
But last week we had a snowy day as well and he excitedly wanted to play with the snow.
We started with a big bowl of it at the kitchen table and lots of measuring spoons.
After 3 bowls of snow, he decided it would be much more fun to go outside and actually play in it.
He got dressed and donned all of his winter weather gear.
He enjoyed traipsing all over the yard, going down the slide but eventually insisted he have his baseball bat.
Even Emma went outside to check out the snow!
Alex made sure she came right back inside.
When he got too cold he came inside and snuggled into the blanket I made with some hot chocolate.
He enjoyed drinking it from a straw and watching his favorite show, Calliou.
Brianna playing Timez Attack Multiplication game on the laptop not wanting me to take her picture.
Katie intently watching and hopefully learning by osmosis!
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