1. Pick up son from Teen Center. Head to Football Parent’s Meeting.
2. Ask son if he has his equipment.
3. Smile when he says yes.
4. Ask if he has his cleats.
5. Scowl when you are turning around to go get said cleats.
6. Get cleats and turn back around.
7. Head to Football Parents Meeting, again
8. Arrive before the coach starts talking cheering that you weren’t the last parent to arrive.
9. Sit on the ground because it’s hot and you’re tired.
10. Stand up because you sat in an ant pile.
11. Try not to make a scene because said ants are crawling all over you.
12. Leave parents meeting and come home for 30 minutes.
13. Receive odd email from ex-boyfriend requesting prayers.
14. See that it’s time to leave for soccer.
15. Yell for daughter for 10 minutes.
16. Get in the car and go look for said daughter.
17. Find daughter at neighbor’s house.
18. Tell her that we will now be late for soccer.
19. Stop at the gas station because they have Gatorade on sale 2 for $3
20. Traffic jam in the parking lot of the gas station because cops are arresting someone.
21. Scoff because daughter cannot determine what gatorade flavor she wants.
22. Pay and get back in the car only to sit there for 5 minutes trying to get out of the parking lot.
23. Jet to soccer practice, sighing a relief when you realize you are there before they started.
24. Learn how to juggle the ball on your feet, thighs, and head.
25. Realize that you are not helping the kids while you are juggling so stop to help them.
26. Run all over the place retrieving balls because the kids think it is funny to kick the ball as far as they can over the hill.
27. Cheer when they announce that they have brought the ice cream truck in at the end of practice.
28. Panic when you realize that they want you to PAY for the ice cream and you have no cash.
29. Tell the kids that you’re going to Katie’s Ice Cream.
30. Arrive at Katie’s at the same time as the rest of the Roanoke Valley.
31. Order your usual, peanut butter cup and peanut butter pie but be adventuresome and get it in a waffle cone instead of a cup.
32. Urge your children to hurry up and pick out what they want because you’re sweaty and gross.
33. Leave Katie’s, ice cream in hand, and decide to get the car washed because a bird mistook your car for the facilities and so that it looks nice for your drive to PA.
34. Bet your children that the car wash will take off the bird poop, even though they are convinced that it won’t.
35. Wait patiently, licking ice cream, while staring intently at the section of the windshield where the bird poop is praying that it will come off.
36. Leave the car wash with remnants of bird poop still on the windshield.
37. Scream at your children that you will pay them their dollar as soon as you get home while yelling for someone to get you a napkin because you have chocolate ice cream escaping the bottom of the cone and running down your arm.
38. Remember why you always get your ice cream in a cup.
39. Walk in the door and fight over who gets in a shower first.
40. Blog about your night while you wait patiently for the shower to open up, hoping there is still hot water, and hating the fact that you are leaving for PA in 10 hours and you’re not packed and a shower will keep you up half the night.
Until next time…
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I’m sorry. I’m sitting here with my first cup of coffee and about to fall out of my chair because I’m laughing so hard! Why? Because it’s SO the kind of day I’d have (on a regular basis) but you told it so much funnier! Thanks for the laugh to start the day!
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Hopefully, it wasn’t a pile of fire ants that you sat on. That would really, *really* suck.
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I was thinking the same thing that Karl was about the ants.
What an evening! I’ve had those too. So, you’re at least not alone.
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Whew! You wear me out, girlfriend!
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9. Sit on the ground because it’s hot and you’re tired.
10. Stand up because you sat in an ant pile.
11. Try not to make a scene because said ants are crawling all over you.
12. Leave parents meeting and come home for 30 minutes.
Oh honey..this made me laugh so hard I spewed my iced tea all over my computer screen! Oh well, I needed to clean it anyway! hahahahaha!
Connie
Wow! What a day. I’m all worn out from just reading your post. Think I’ll have a short nap now…after I stop laughing. Thanks for a fun read.
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