day 4 without boys
They come home tomorrow!! I can’t wait to see them and wring the stories out of them. Are they covered in bug bites and sunburn? Did they make new friends? Is DS1 sore from riding, rock climbing and canoing? Is DS2 exhilerated from his first week alone from home? Even DS1 hasn’t done that yet! He’s always with friends he already knows!
Of course, I CAN wait to SMELL them. Both boys have been at “rustic” camp experiences. DS1 on this Journey thing where they bike, climb, canoe, horseback ride and what all half way down Wisconsin. DS2 is at the Ox Lake “international” village..read “here’s a taste of how the 2/3s of the rest of the world lives.” Platform tents, no running water or toilets (biffys…it’s not like they’re going in camp!) No electricity. Horseback riding, canoing on the lake (not the river) and general camp stuff.
It will be grand and glorious to see them again. And frustrating and heart-breaking because they’ll look all grown and won’t pour the stories out like I’ll want them to.
Such is the life of the mom of teenage boys. I know. Still…
Here’s what I’ve learned about myself this week. (Some of which makes me very afraid for my life after they’re grown and out of the house.)
1. I ate crappy. I made one giant chicken pasta salad on Sunday afternoon and that’s all the cooking I’ve done all week. I either grabbed fast food or packed the chicken salad along for the ride…except for the night I ate ice cream for dinner because I didn’t want any more chicken salad and I didn’t want to cook anything else.
2. Even though I know it would make me happy, I do not clean house. I have gotten nowhere on DS2’s room as of right now and the kitchen is a mess. I haven’t unloaded the dishwasher since Tuesday and so all the dishes from yesterday and today are in the sink and on the counters.
3. I do not go to bed at a decent time and yet, I do not have the guts to blow off 8:00a.m. meetings (which I’ve had EVERY freakin‘ day this week.) and meetings every evening until 9 or so. So, I’m tired. I day dream about a nap. My thinking is muddled and I’m just a teensy bit emotional (of course that could be the full moon/ovulation…but whatever.)
I need my kids back so I can put some discipline back into my own life. How pathetic is that?
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Attended the Worship commission meeting at SAPLC tonight. Seems like a good group. Interesting to learn who is playing which roles….
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SH had some very disturbing news about the goings on at GA. He’s being subjected to the “task force phenomenon.” I feel for him, but I have agitated him that he needs to hold PS accountable. They were at week-long training together so he should be able to do that. I also told him that he (SH) had better have 1:1 meetings with JP, AC, GA, and NJ and make sure he is able to mobilize them as his floor team should the time come. This is such bullsh!t! In what freaked out pastor’s manual do they describe it as a good idea to “work around” the rest of your staff and existing committee structures? WTF??
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that’s all for now. I’m going to go watch a movie instead of the terror reports and hopefully fall asleep before my boyfriend Craig Ferguson comes on TV.
I don’t know why I think he’s so engaging. He’s actually a little rude and probably more so in real life. Still…there’s something…
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
