I definitely need a vacation.
Well, what I really need is some QUIET time. Alone. In a room. With a blanket over my head.
It’s weird but this is the first time I’ve really felt the LOUDNESS of my life with two kiddies under the age of 4.
And I think it’s because it just got a lot louder LATELY.
Today at lunch I had to tell Bean “Shhh…quiet. Just EAT.” I’ve never done that before.
This morning, before lunch, we had to run a quick errand to the library to drop off some books. The entire two mile trip in the car was just…LOUD.
Bean asks a million questions. I encourage his curiosity, I do, but sometime it’s just SO much. So LOUD.
“Mama, see that cloud, Mama? That cloud is dark, Mama? Why that cloud so dark, Mama? ‘Cause it’s going to rain, Mama? Yes, Mama? YES, MAMA? YES, MAMA??!!”
“YES, BEAN. Shhh….”
“Mama, see that car carrier, Mama? Why it have cars on it, Mama? Where it going, Mama? Mama, you see it? See it, Mama? MAMA!?”
“YES, BEAN. I see it. It is carrying those cars to the car place.” (Car place? Hey, he fires them fast.)
“Mama, is it going to rain, Mama? Is it going to thunder, Mama? Why it thunder, Mama? And lightning? Why it lightning, Mama? Do you hear thunder, Mama? Is it going to rain? Is it going to rain NOW, Mama? Mama? MAMA?!”
Then combine this with my 2 year old daughter who just WHINES. “MAA-MAA…MAA-MAA..”
All the time.
Then, I get tired of hearing MY voice constantly ask HER, “What, Annabel? What do you want, Annabel? Use your words, please. What do you want? What?
“WHAT?!”
I find myself enjoying the 2 hour nap/stay-and-play-quietly-in-your-room time more and more lately because it’s finally QUIET.
Shhh….
Well, great, now it’s thundering. It’s really LOUD. I’m going to go lay down. With a blanket over my head.
Just for a minute.
