Auntie O’ K saves the day
Today was crazy. Hannah, Gabriel, and I jumped from one thing to another. Chores, errands, Tae Kwon Doe, visitors, and then it was suddenly 5:30 PM. Robert gets off work around 6:00. We are a one car family, and we have been experiencing very unwalkable weather here in the Northwest. The kids and I were going to pick up Robert from work. Around 5:35, Hannah signed to use the bathroom. I got her on the chair and she started screaming with watery tears, trying to deal with some constipation. . I was rubbing her stomach and singing songs. Gabriel kept wandering in to ask me to do something for him.
At one point, I was trying to assemble a remote control car and sing to Hannah. I stopped that when I realized how silly that was. Gabriel didn’t need the car at that moment. He finally asked for a movie, and I had him sing to Hannah so I could go start it. Hannah just cared that someone kept singing.
I came back and handed him the remote. (I do love that this is all I have to do anymore.) And I started a song as soon as he finished. I realized that we would not make it in time to pick up Robert. I left Hannah screaming and grabbed the phone and went back to the bathroom.
I called Robert’s sister. She, his parents, and his brother moved to town recently, and it is amazing having some support so close. I called her. Hannah was screaming, and I believe Gabriel had come to ask me something else.
"Uh, K, can I ask you a favor?"
It was great; she was cheerful, "What?"
"Would you pick up Robert for me please?"
"Sure, is dinner taken care of?"
Ok, she just moved up to Saint. I was realizing I wasn’t going to be able to get dinner made in time. "I think we are ok. Actually, no, I haven’t had a chance to get started on it yet."
"I just bought a rotisserie chicken. Do you want me to bring it over?"
"That would be wonderful."
So she became our knight in shining armor. She rescued her brother and helped with my heavy lifting. She told me later that it was funny; it was just like those old Calgon commercials where the mother says, "Calgon take me away." She could hear all the chaos over the phone.
Thank you so much Auntie O’K!
--Mom
