THE Mommy
OK, my perfect evening would probably involve Patriot's tickets on the first row and a hotel room, oh, and a few margaritas...but that's too much to hope for, so I'll settle for the next best thing:
THE Daddy calls on Wednesday (not Friday) afternoon to say that he’s on his way home and will be there for dinner…AND he’s picking up Pad Thai along the way, YUM.
He comes home in time to eat and play with the kids for a bit before throwing them into the tub. The kids are SO excited to see him. Lots of giggling…the kind that they reserve only for THE Daddy…it melts my heart.
He snuggles with them until they fall asleep while I get a little extra work done. This eases the much-anticipated stress of not getting to work on Friday while I’m on an AppleCrest Farm Field Trip with Princess’ Kindergarten class.
BamBam yells out for “Daddy!” in the middle of the night…and Daddy is actually there, hears him, AND beats me to him…all before Princess gets woken up.
THE Daddy remembers to turn off the 5:30am alarm on his cell phone…the one that has been waking me up by mistake on Saturday mornings.
I wake up before my alarm at 6:30am and get to take a shower before anyone else gets up.
THE Daddy offers to take the kids to school before heading back to work.
Does this sound too good to be true?! All of the above happened last night!
What a nice way to break up our week. It makes me realize, yet again, how incredibly difficult it is to have THE Daddy travel Mon-Friday. Only 4 more weeks until the new restaurant opens up in east-bum-nowhere Maine and he gets to sleep at home again. Praise be.
I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Reader Comments (2)
Sounds like you had a dream come true day! That is awesome...we all deserve that once in a while!
Bradley
The Egel Nest
Yuck. The restaurant industry...14 years I was in that sucker...14 long, long, very long years. Go Ravens!