I woke up to the alarm at 4:51 am. The alarm was at 4:50 am, but I had been
reading Anna K until midnight, and am prone to spending too much time asleep
with the alarm sounding. David had, as
he proudly told me, been up since four, and he reported in a kind of sleepy
chatter, “Mom and Dad said we are leaving later.” David and I loaded the car, resulting in a
missing purple thermometer, and partially blocked rear-view mirror. (The mirror
part was easily fixed; the thermometer was Anna’s fault.) “New plan,” Dad said, “We are going to leave
at 9… at 10… at 11… If we go soon we’ll still get to the square dance. Just help Mommy. Stop wining.”
“Can I go to my library thing?”
“Yes, we’ll come and get you and then go.”
I got home
from the library program at 1:00 and met exactly what I predicted to Daddy on
the car ride: a flustered Mom and kids loafing on the sofa.
Finally we entered the Richman Express,
but that does not mean we were prepared to go.
No, there remained the important issue of what movie we were going to
watch. Anna loudly declared that Liberty
Kids was the only movie worth watching.
Miriam voiced no opinions, but we all knew she just wanted Thomas. She loves trains. We only actually brought one Tomas video
though, because the rest were lost, (and later found in the musical instruments
bucket, curtsey of la goose.) Leah voted
Tangled after Little Bear was smudged, and David and I remained neutral as long
as it wasn’t Liberty Kids. Tangled was
selected with 20% of the votes, and no strong objections.
Anna, much to the misfortune of
everyone involved, got the end seat on the first brown bench, the seat that
formally had the broken buckle, the seat with half door responsibility shared
with me in the end seat, back bench.
Leah sits by the window in the back, Miri in the seat right in front of
that, and David in the middle, back row.
This leaves the middle, front bench, empty. But the front end is mostly the go between. The go between is the portal linking the
front seat city to the back roads town.
Our highway hoards popcorn, and can’t take care of the baby. Anna is NOT a good go between.
Tangled was not finished. In her middle seat inspired distress, Miriam
got bored, and we put on Thomas, Salty’s Stories. If I never hear that story again I will,
following the suit of Cranky in the episode, be very happy. We did watch Liberty Kids in the end, and
someone picked the theme song for a sing along.
States for day one:
#1. The state of my skirt covered in dog drool
#2. The state of my
voice after singing The Wheels on the Bus way too long (the Sarah on the bus
goes read, read, read.)
#3. The state of
Mother’s frustration as we sit around and she cleans, not a nice state to be
in.
#4. The state of
everyone, fatigue.
States for day two:
#1. The state of Dad’s missing deodorant, it is no longer
just a territory.
#2 . The state of Mommy’s life as a 14 year old, (old
selfies and cards anyone?)
#3. The state of a
clean van, it was mussed up on the drive.
(lol, Dad [inside joke])
#4. The state of the
adorable kittens’ fate, the stars are not with them.
