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October 19, 2005
Flirting with Getting Out of Bed
From Lani, snuggling in the sheets...
Well, good morning. I'm seriously considering not getting out of bed today. I'll let you know how it goes.
See, I just finished my revisions on THE COMEBACK KISS (out May of 2006, please buy it, my kids like to eat) and I have Light's 4th birthday party coming up this weekend and as a matter of fact, Light woke up at six o'clock this morning and has since been in my bed saying things like "I want hug!" and "I wanna watch Dora!" and "Listen to me sing my ABC's!" and already I'm freakin' exhausted, and it's not even eight o'clock yet.
Okay. Side note. You know how, in Dora the Explorer, she constantly tells the kids to yell things out to "help" her? Like, she can't open her backpack unless my kid yells BACKPACK at the TOP OF HER FREAKIN' LUNGS?
Yeah. So, as I write this entry, keep in mind that I've got a (currently) three-year-old yelling "GATE!" and "BACKPACK!" and similar in my ear.
All right. Where was I? Yes. The not getting out of bed thing. That's pretty much a lost cause. I've got kids and a family and I have to go shopping for said birthday party this weekend and life goes on even though I've just finished a book, but in my ideal world, here's my day.
Wake up, unassisted, naturally, circa eight o'clock in the morning.
Make coffee without two small children whirling around me like electrons demanding Cheerios NOW NOW NOW!
Drink coffee without two small children whirling around me like electrons trying to knock me down. My kids really like that game, the let's-knock-mommy-down game. (I keep thinking that back in the days in which kids were made to pick their own switch off the hickory tree, they didn't play those kinds of games. I know that beating children with a switch is bad, I'm just saying.)
Go back to bed and finish reading a book. Doesn't matter which one. Just finish reading one. That's all I want.
(Okay, Light is obviously able to read because she just yelled, in my ear, "COME ON YOU CAN'T STAY IN YOUR ROOM ALL DAY!!!" as though Dora asked her to. Weird.)
Um, where was I? Oh, yes. Read a book. Take a bubble bath. Do a pedicure. Do a manicure. All without interruptions.
Have food delivered to the door.
Have maids delivered to the door.
Have wine delivered to the door.
Spend quality time (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) with my husband without little children sneaking up to the side of the bed and saying, "Hey, whatcha doing?" to which we respond by screaming and grabbing at the bed linens.
So, that's it. That's my whole fantasy. The reality is that as soon as I'm done with this blog, I will get up, get showered, make coffee, spill coffee on my shirt as the kids do the knock-mommy-down game, go shopping, get Sweetness ready for school, beg and eventually bribe Light to take her nap, try to get some downtime by knitting and/or sleeping, be interrupted every five minutes by Light who needs to pee/poop/have a kidney transplant/whatever she thinks will work to get a few minutes out of naptime, get Sweetness back from school, talk about school, hide in my room while they fly around the house like banshees, make dinner, wrassle the kids into bed and fall onto the bed, where I pass out ass-up with my legs hanging over the side, my last thought being, "I really should have gotten some laundry done...."
:::sigh:::
Light just nudged herself under my arm.
"YOU STOP CLICKING!" she demanded. "HUG ME!"
I did. She smiled up at me, put her grubby hand on my cheek, kissed me with a big SMACK and said, "I'm gonna go in the other room now."
Then she ran off, giggling.
And you know what? My day ain't so bad.
Posted by Lani at 7:54 AM | Comments (4)
Comments
And I imagine your write at least 1 minute during the day right? Ahhh, the joys of writing with an (almost) three year old. I hear ya....
Posted by: Bethany at October 19, 2005 12:44 PM
Since I had my son my favourite fantasy is staying in a hotel. Alone. That's all. (Although if George Clooney was available ...)
Posted by: Keris at October 20, 2005 8:58 AM
George is nice, but I'd get more out of room service and a massage. Ahhh
Posted by: Ellen at October 20, 2005 11:30 AM
Yes, and then your children grow up, move out, have children, move back in and if your're really lucky ;-) you go through the same thing all over again, but with your grandchildren. I don't think I've had time to myself in 30 yrs! Little spurts here and there, yes, but quality time with myself? The jury's still out on that one.
Posted by: mystery at October 26, 2005 10:20 PM
