I am dragging today. I had all 4 kids in bed at 9 last night. (You might think shouldn’t they always be in bed by nine? They should be, but they fight me so they can see Pato when he gets home. I let it slide during the summertime because with his hours they don’t get a lot of time with him.) The night before they had stayed up until 2 with him and I had one heck of a day with them yesterday because of it. Amidst all the pleading and begging and whining, I managed to get them to sleep.
I had every intention of going to bed early last night (early for me being midnight) but Pato brought home a Redbox movie that I got engrossed in.
Have you seen
It has Lacey Chabert in it. Remember the littlest one in Party of Five?
I rarely watch movies when he pops them in late. Pato’s into either shoot ‘em up or the kind of scary that’s so gross you want to puke movies. I like dramas and comedies. I’m listening with one ear and started getting into this one. I got grossed out a few times. I told Pato I would never ever drink blood from a snake or my own pee. He said if you were in the desert lost, you would to survive. I said, no, because I would never be in that situation to begin with. Oh yeah, you’re perfect, you’d never get lost in a desert.
It’s not that. I’ve never even been to a desert. (I’m not the most adventuresome type of person you’ll meet. I don’t do bugs, I don’t like heat, I hate to get dirty, I don’t sleep outdoors – see that whole I hate bugs thing, I’m so not an outdoorsman.) If I was going to get lost and die from the elements, it would be in a snow storm, because my car broke down, not because I went out to play in the snow. I live in Iowa. No deserts. We probably drove through some desert when we drove to Mexico, but that was such a long drive (from Ohio to Texas) and I was so horribly bored that I possibly repressed it. That or I’m just getting old and losing my memory. Either way, we stayed on interstates the whole way through. It’s true, driving through Texas takes FOREVER!
I learned 2 valuable lessons that trip.
1 – Never drive from Ohio to Texas and then take a bus from Reynosa, Mexico to Leon, Mexico with a 3 year old who has a broken wrist. No fun. Actually, Jordan was fine, the ride just stunk.
2 – Give myself more time in between flights on the way home. Nothing like getting all your luggage off a plane at O’Hare to go through customs, then attempting to wrangle 2 weeks worth of luggage and presents and a 3 year old by yourself with barely enough time to catch your connecting flight to Columbus, Oh. I had the luggage on the luggage cart and Jordan on top of that, holding on to him as I ran.
Wondering why we drove down and Jordan and I flew back? We were taking a truck down to Pato’s father as a present. We had to leave it at the border for inspection and to be licensed for Mexico. Pato and his took a bus up a few days later to bring the truck to where they lived.
Pato knows I love the old VW bugs. He keeps saying next time we go to Mexico that he’s going to buy me one, then I can drive it back up to home. He’s so funny if he thinks I’m going to make that drive again. Plus, where exactly would I stick 2 – 5 point harness car seats, a booster, and an 11 year old in a bug.
Could you see me trying to stick all 4 of my kids in this -
Photo by ketterer
Oh but it’s cute. I want an old one. The new ones are cute too, but the old bugs are classic! Some people lust after corvettes and mustangs, not I. I want a bug.
Back to the movie, I was listening with one ear and the I gradually started watching more and more of it. It was disturbing in an exactly what would you do to survive this situation?
The movie kept me up until 2:10 AM.
And since the kids got to bed at a decent time last night, they were all up at 8:30 AM. Yippie me! The birds were up too. Waiting for their bread. Not so patiently. Tweet tweet tweet SQUAWK!
I’m counting down the minutes until naptime.
I don’t know why I’m so tired. I’m normally go to bed between 1 and 2 and get up at 7:30. Sleeping until 8:30 was sleeping in. I’ll chalk it up to mother nature.
Alright, I need to go do dishes that I didn’t do after the kids went to bed because I reviewed Imaginary Jesus and then got caught up in the movie. Need to get those done and then make lunch. After that, I’m hoping to God the littlest 2 are ready for a nap!
Have a great day!
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