It all began when Things 1-4 began their summer bacchanal of fast food and parade candy,
endless days at the pool
and nights way later than thought possible in winter.
Throw in some cool designer clothes at sale prices their mother can never find and fried retinas from so many movies and video games,
and their little lives are more or less complete.
Yes, that's right. They'd gone to the grandparents.
The mother, left on her own and about to begin looking for houses, was feeling a bit odd. How does one cook for just one person? A friend of hers from work suggested, that, as her Things were gone, and the friend's teen Thing was also gone, the lone mommy should come and hang out. Then there would be two for which to cook (there hasn't been really; we were optimistic there) and lone mommy could explore the northern and western burbs as well.
Sounded good. Actually, it's been great. Lone mommy has been having a blast. (Note to children: never leave your parents unattended.)
However, the internet connection left a little to be desired. It froze so much lone mommy started checking the weather to see if a strange front was moving through. And that was just on email. Forget opening files or posting pictures.
No problem, lone mommy thought. She'd use the weekend time to keep up with the blog.
Ha. Like that worked. Enter lone mommy trying to catch up with 183 unanswered emails, field calls from Things who oddly enough thought her still in charge even when hours away and being unable to find excuses to stay home when her friends said, "It must be lonely without the kids. Why don't we______?" all while making time to get lost in unfamiliar burbs because she was trying to sneak peaks at what's for sale in areas she fancied?
Notice the blog didn't even make it into that last sentence, let alone any of the weekend time lone mommy tried to give it. Nap time at work was out as well, because 1) work was fuzzy about how many jpgs can be downloaded on their computers and 2) one tiny guy is not real into napping. So nap time has devolved into one shining moment of respite while he briefly snoozes, followed by an hour and a half of playing let's-find-ways-to-keep-Cash-on-his-cot-and-quiet-so-everyone-else-can-sleep. A most thrilling game. Really. (The staff strongly suspects this child's inherent adorableness is a survival trait given to him by the angels in order to offset his amazing capacity for mischievousness, but that's another story...).
But now lone mommy has narrowed down the housing options and has things like appointments with a (gasp) realtor. (He has GPS. That is good.) So here she is with weekend time AND a happy internet connection (it pays to offer to water the plants of people who are gone). She has picture permission from one yarn website, public domain clip art, and a blog-in-waiting in the Drafts folder. She's even finding time to knit and crochet again (amazing what an I-must-get-this-stuff-done-before-we-go-to-visit deadline will do for one).
Exit optimism. Enter posts.
(Well, she hopes anyway. Especially since this little blog is a master of bugging her when ignored.)
1 comment:
Nice to hear from you. Enjoy the alone time. I had that whole cook for one thing for a few weeks while The Husband was down south. Then he lost his contract and both boys came home. Younger son's Sweetie came back from France and is now with us. Next week, Younger son and sweetie are going to her house and Elder son will be graduating and hopes to move to his own place. Life in flux. Gotta Love it.
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