Walking On Sunshine

It’s 9pm on a Tuesday night and I feel like I took the midnight train to Georgia, got drunk as a ho-bo, forgot to get off the train, jumped out of the vagrant boxcar and rolled back home via a ditch I landed in all in-order to get the next day’s Harvard curriculum outline done. Needless to say….I’m TIRED and showing it.

It’s all because we started homeschool this week. So far I’ve only made him cry once. That’s pretty good considering I cried multiple times in unoccupied bedrooms and closets. But hey, not bad for day 2 out of 5. 

I do feel like I’ve been to war though. War with myself, God, the Mexican border crisis…and a printer. Printers are evil. They never work and when your husband finally fixes it (after a 2 year long waiting period) with a new printer purchase, this said husband uses the new ink to print an 8×11 photo of you having a meltdown. All so he can hang it in the medicine cabinet over the sink and laugh until he wheezes every time he brushes his teeth. Pray for me. 

I’ve learned homeschool takes ALL the same accouterments as running an academy, but for ONE student. One! I’m working my cracked tailbone off for ONE STUDENT. I cannot understand how a teacher does this for 28+ students. Kudos to you public school warriors!

I have had to slam so much new change into our lives over the last 4 days that I look like a crying mad hatter with slightly less enthusiasm for her very merry un-birthday party. 

Scouts was another difficult commitment to honor after my 4 days of endless tasks and less sleep than a newborn. By 7 pm, ON TUESDAY, I was DONE! Game over! TGIF on a Tuesday.

My “messy bun” had turned into a vacant rats nest that set a top my head like a crown of rooster’s feathers in full fight mode. Alas, I have no more fight mode for tonight. All I’ve got is wide eyed panicked dead face that’s painted with lipstick bleeding into my lip wrinkles like it’s their escape route. Its counterpart mascara has absconded away from my lashes when it should be clinging to them and making me look gorgeous and effortlessly beautiful! Why does make up run when duty calls? STAY AND FIGHT YOU INGLORIOUS FACE DEFECTOR! 

In this state, I drive the one mile back to my house while listening to a wiz-bang production starting Nathaniel and Stampy the Cat. It’s loud. It’s ridiculous. It’s a little representation of my life. 

During this THREE MINUTE ride home, I turned on the radio to drown out the Shakespeare in my backseat and catch a musical little ditty screaming,  “I’m Walking on Sunshine! WHOA-OH! And don’t it feel good!” No. No, Katrina and The Waves, I’m not walking on sunshine. I’m staring into too bright LED brake lights and I’m dragging home like a wounded cage fighter. 

MMA mom down!

Mom down!

#everydayridiculous