I saw my husband for about an hour today…in 15 second intervals.
At 7am, I saw him for 15 seconds while I raced out the door with 6 kids in tow.
At 11:15 am, I saw him out my classroom window when he texted me “unlock the doors to your car,” because Levi had left his backpack in my trunk.
At 12:20, I saw him when he ran into my classroom, threw my forgotten lunch to me and then flew off to get Gabby to preschool on time.
At 3:45, I ran into the house after school and passed him as he ran out so that he could watch the first half of Sam’s football game. He sent me text message updates while I organized the girls for their piano lesson and tried to do the dishes.
At 4:45, we waved lovingly at each other as we drove by in opposite directions when we switched places at halftime. I was armed with the camera so that I could embarrass Sam by making him pose for a photo – serves him right for forgetting his picture envelope on professional photo day!
At 5:45, we waved again, this time as he was taking some kids to soccer and I was flying home to meet the ones still in piano lessons. (I think our piano teacher thinks we’re nuts. I’m just thankful there’s another adult in the house so we can leave some kids there for a minute or two!)
At 6:15, I arrived at the soccer game with the last piano-player and thought we would finally get a few minutes to chat. Then my phone rang. Sam had taken the bus back to school after his game and thought he had a ride home, but alas…
At 7:00, when the soccer game ended, we saw each other for a frantic 11 seconds while the girls ran into the house, flinging clothing as they went up the stairs so that they could change and get back out the door for the basketball practice we had forgotten about which started at 7:20.
We were technically in the same house from 8:15 to 9:15, but I’m not sure we ever even made eye contact! Between finishing homework, laying out clothes and finding all the pieces of everyone’s backpacks for tomorrow, we just shouted information up and down the stairs:
Down: Location of Dora the Explorer Backpack??
Up: Got it!
Down: Do the girls need gym shoes tomorrow?
Outside: Do you girls need gym shoes tomorrow?
Inside: No!
Up: No!
Down: Levi just said he’s Star of the Week! Do you know anything about this?
Text to Levi’s Mom: Do you know anything about Star of the Week?
Text back: Yup! Done.
(Phew. Thank goodness there are so many adults in this equation.)
Up: Yup! Done!
Down: Where’s the Guinea Pig?
Up: What?!?!?
You get the idea…
At 9:15, I saw my husband for approximately 9 second before we both completely passed out. Maybe we’ll have a conversation tomorrow.
You are not going to run out of stories, ever! I am sure you will still have good stories when they are in college too!
Posted by: Kristen | 10/18/2011 at 10:30 AM