Ahhh..... Silence

I love night time, after everyone is asleep.  Chances are, if you know me well, this might surprise you.  I do love going to bed early too.  BUT - on these rare nights that everyone is asleep & I'm up - hearing nothing but the fans & the dishwasher running - there is such a peacefulness about it.  I guess even though I'm tired, I stay up late just because I'm postponing tomorrow.  Tomorrow will be filled with business, like today, so if I stay up later tonight, I can enjoy the fact that I'm done for now.

Granted, it is only 10pm right now (yes - I'm a wuss).  The girls are usually in bed by 8:30, but it was 9:30 tonight because we watched the Razorbacks play.  (YET ANOTHER pay-per-view wasted, but it was a good game, with sucky calls.)  Jeff was pooped so he crashed immediately.  Usually, I'm the one crashing & he stays up till God knows what time.  I have fallen asleep to football & ESPN a million times over the years.

Anyway - on nights like tonight, I usually think of my mom.  She worked full-time.  My dad worked a hard job & was not one to help around the house.  As a matter of fact - none of us were.  I'm so sorry mom - I wish you would have been meaner & made us at least do our own laundry!  I think about how our laundry room would literally be knee-deep more times than not.  And that was just the dirty clothes.  There was a whole other pile in the clean clothes section, which was a counter in the laundry room.  The pile there was from about from waist to chest.  And I think of the "PUNISHMENT" sticker that my mom stuck above the doorway to the laundry room.  She is funny like that.  But I never thought to ask her - punishment for what?  :)  

Back then, I remember my mom sometimes taking a diet pill when she went to bed.  My dad always wanted her to fall asleep with him.  Boy does that sound familiar.  She would take a diet pill so she could sleep a few hours, then wake up in the middle of the night, when everyone else was asleep - the she would do laundry.  I promise you, when I'm up late or in the middle of the night, I almost NEVER do laundry.  Sometimes I read or watch tv (Suze Orman on CNBC & I used to love it when I caught Wings - that show is funny!)

The older I get, the more I feel like my parents.  Rather it be like my dad when I snap & just take the girls toys away that they are fighting over (or throw it out the window driving down the freeway - which I have done & gave me the best feeling ever.  Both girls were so shocked, I had at least 3 minutes of peace), or my mom when I bought a sign at Hobby Lobby that is hanging over my laundry room door:  "Mom's Laundry Service - Help Wanted - Inquire Within."

But - all in all, today was a great day.  I wanted to take the girls to watch the finishing of the Mud Run, but they were so awful this morning we just stayed home.  They have fought over everything today - even the stupidest stuff.  Lauren has gotten 2 spankings, sent to her room twice & Jaci got sent to hers too.   They were fighting over this stupid little pink keyboard that plays like a piano or you can push a button & it will play a song.  It was loud & they were on either end of it, each trying to yank it from the other.  I put it on top of the fridge.  When Jeff got home, we ran some errands - then Lauren & I took a nap when we got home.  This evening, JR & the Courtneys came over to watch the game.  I got the piano back down & sure enough - they started fighting again.  I was folding clothes & put it beside me & told Lauren "Don't touch it again."  I saw her finger extend towards it, like some force field was drawing her in.  I looked at her & said, "Lauren - I said don't touch it!"  She said, "But mommy, its so beautiful!"  

hahaha  If pink plastic is so beautiful & she can't keep from touching it, watch out trailer park - here she comes!  Later, I said, "Lauren, are you TRYING to get on my nerves?"  In her sweet little voice, she said, "Yessssssss."

So - this week - I've had Jaci crying that her life is horrible, LG running from Jeff - screaming don't talk to her, Jaci telling me, "OH REALLY?  Well you don't know that!"  Not to mention, this morning when I was getting on to them both - I busted Jaci mouthing my exact words when she thought I wasn't looking.  

But - LG did make sure to give me her Christmas list today:  a GILR tent & sleeping bag, a GIRL computer & a GIRL camera.  Perfect for a 3 year-old huh?

Well, I think I've had enough of basking in silence.  Time to hit the hay.  Y'all be sweet!