If everything had gone according to plan, I’d be at the gym pool with the kids.
BUT.
There were many incidences this morning involving kids shrieking and yelling and slamming doors (most of that done from joy, actually) and my telling them to STOP. “I know you’re excited about swimming. But this isn’t working. Be excited in a way that does not look like THIS.”
But there was no stopping.
And what those sweet babies do not yet realize is that I am not just panting at the opportunity to put on a bathing suit and take them to the gym pool. I don’t like to be cold, wet, barely dressed, or around people, and this activity requires all 4 of those. I try not to let on, though, so they don’t know that I only take them out of pure stay-at-home mommy summertime obligation.
And also because I know it makes them so tired that later on they will take nice, long naps.
I sat them on the couch and told them that I wasn’t mad at them, but that there would be no swimming today after all. There would be no rewarding previously discussed behavior with a trip to the pool. You want me to take you swimming… then you should probably remember to be a bit more respectful to me and the generally accepted noise level standards.
I told them they could run around in the sprinklers instead and we’d try again real soon. They perked right up and went outside and I turned up Black Crows and then Van Halen really loud to drown out the sound of their happy yelling.
The music was louder than any yelling or door slamming. I admit it.
I just don’t have a problem with that irony.
I kinda like it.
I love you.
1:57 am
Enjoy your music! I like playing loud music too (as long as it’s my music), whereas shrieking and other “rough” sounds drive me crazy. But I guess that’s the price we pay living in homes full of happy, healthy boys. So it’s good if we can drown out the noise with our own once in a while.
7:28 am
Sara,
it’s completely necessary! the kids straightened RIGHT up after that yesterday – so much so that I took them swimming and today they are exhausted and crying with sheer fatigue. But… that’s just part of summer, too.
10:24 am
You seem so social and extroverted that it always surprises me when you say you don’t like to be around other people! I on the other hand…sound a lot like you!
4:06 pm
Laurie….
really?! i’m the person at church you’ve seen for years but know nothing about because she never talks or participates in anything and would really prefer not to make eye contact, ifthat’sokaywitheveryoneelse, oh please don’t look at me.
the big difference is that here, with y’all, there’s no social anxiety. night and day difference. : )
8:11 am
Yup, that could be me, too! ; )
9:59 am
Loud music can be just the ticket sometimes. I once drove through our itty bitty little town in my big, loud yellow truck with Switchfoot playing at nearly top volume and my windows down on a nice summer day. Got a couple of nasty looks from older folks walking by. Oh well.
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4:32 pm
GW,
I LOVE this image of you!! It’s about as clear to me as the description of your eyes from HOW many years ago? fantastic visual!
8:26 pm
Really? What did I say about my eyes?
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4:31 am
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