We Waited for You Mommy!

I didn't get to post yesterday because.... I had a busy full day at work - I had events in the evening so I didn't get home until after 10pm. That's OK because the kids waited for me! I held a focus group about my project from 4-5:30, left the U at 6:05 rushing down to the downtown library for another event at 6:15pm. I was a few minutes late to the Library but the event was one of the best I have held so far - I think half of the success was I was simply too busy to worry about the whole thing. I think 40 people showed up. There was a panel of Great Salt Lake experts who presented to the audience following, A Desert Sea film screening. The GSL experts were a really fun bunch who went for beer after the event...I would have enjoyed joining them but another time in my life (2 children ago). I am a mom with little kids and needed to get to the grocery store for the next days' school birthday treats, a birthday cake and a few other necessities. I think Smith's is open until 11pm and I found it very unfriendly that they turned off many of the lights and had no check-out people for busy working moms who can only shop after 10pm.

I spoke with Sia around 9:30 that evening and said all was quiet at home. Setareh fell asleep at 6pm and had just woken up and was working on her spelling, the little guy had been asleep for an hour so all was good. Sia is soo good he makes parenting look easy...but the kids waited for me.

Tired and hungry I arrived home to see my daughter for her last night as a 6 year old and I was just about the eat the dinner Sia had prepared when Arian began to cry. The good father that he is he ran up to put Arian back to sleep so I could unwind with dinner and catch-up on Setareh's day. From the crying coming from both Arian and Sia...I ran upstairs to find mega vomit exploding from the tiny boy. Laundry, showers, burned food , chaos of it all and restless kids...finally around midnight things were quiet and we all went to sleep. Sia said, "the whole house was so quiet until you came home." I reminded Sia of what my mom has always told me about just such occasions..."The kids missed you and are just waiting for the mommy!" ohhhh how lucky! A belated post.