A Clock, and whoops! The Coppers!
No one from Social Services has visited me, or called, nor have I had a letter. I am assuming that I will be left alone, provided that no more incidents happen, or more correctly, that no more incidents get noticed. Which brings me to Monday morning. The Monday Morning Of Awfulness And Resulting Sweaty Armpits.
As you may recall, our filthy buggy got stolen a few months ago, and so now we drag the enormous, new buggy ( although slightly mouldering in places) down the stairs at night, and up again in the morning. It is just another extra difficult job to do when you are trying to get five people dressed and fed and lunches packed and breastfeeding done and ties found and jackets on and then have to walk fast for 25 minutes to Edgware Road, getting stung in the eyeballs by miniscule black pollution-bits which make your eyes water and your mascara run and your hair gets quite fluffy in the panic and sometimes there are taxi drivers watching you (and I don't think it is with admiration). Anyway, Mark decided on Sunday night to lock the buggy up halfway down the stairs with a bikechain. Presumably, to make things easier for me.
Mark: The key is on your pink key ring.
Me (really angry, but without the leisure of time to fully express it): Oh. Ok. Better go find it, then, in the minute and a half I have left! (Hangs up violently, which, of course, can't really be done with a push button phone. But there you have it).
Anyway, while I am searching for the key, getting really sweary, I tell the kids to put on their jackets and wait outside but DO NOT GO UP THE STAIRS! Precious minutes tick by. I finally give up, and decide to take the very small pushchair to put the baby in, and Casper The Reckless Wonder has to go on the scooter. Not good, but what else can I do? I really don't want to sign the Late-Person's Book! Because that would be like, failing. It is 6 minutes past 8. DANGERZONE. I yell at them all to get up the stairs, quickly! NOW! But they are not where they are supposed to be. They have "disappeared". I hear giggling. They are all rammed together, hiding under the metal, rusty stairs. Cracking up at their miserable, terrible, annoying and ill-timed joke. And the baby……where is the baby? The BABY!
The Baby, Dear Reader, has climbed up the stairs, past his brothers who have been absorbed in their parental trickery games, and is wandering along the pavement, teetering like a drunkard. And who else is in our road? None other than a carload of your local, friendly POLICEMEN. Yes, uniformed officers are just meters away from my unaccompanied little baby. It was another awesome moment of motherhood.
Luckily, though, they were there for some dramatic prostitute-y matter, and had not noticed the small unaccompanied teetering baby. This close, fellas, THIS CLOSE to real and warranted attention from the authorities.
It chirps, sort of like a Robot Sparrow, with laser eyes, and a bit of bobbing of the head. It was supposed to be for Casper, but I changed my mind. But last night, on the virgin run, not a wink of sleep was to be had, because Robot Sparrow emits a red, unnerving, radioactive-esque light and bathes you in it. The numbers light the whole room in womby-red and pierce through your shuttered eyelids like a migrane. Turning Robot Sparrow to the wall just makes the light bounce back into your head. And then, when Robot Sparrow wakes you at 6:30 for the Morning Ugliness, you just want to break him. Charmless.
Anyway. So. Time for True Blood, episode three. Does Anna Paquin's voice get less adenoidinal?
5 Responses to A Clock, and whoops! The Coppers!
My dvd emits a laser type light which seems to be always aimed at my eye which I covered with packing tape. Pretty ugly but does the trick. Any coloured plastic or even paper might work to tone it down a little.
Is it bad to laugh at the misfortunes of others? If so, sorry!
I feel for you on the red light of doom from the alarm clock. Middle son has taken to bringing is green globall of a night light in when he comes into our bed bathing us in ghastly green glow and waking everyone up.
This is so funny, and so true. No one but mothers understand how the morning and evening shifts with the children must run to clockwork and anything that causes unplanned delay causes disaster.
II know I shouldn't laugh but….REALLY funny! Have you found the key now?
Bad mothering – natch! I left a broken wine glass poking out of the recycling at toddler eye level (found and shouted about this morning) then fed Erbie sesame seed snaps (again) which led to a serious nasal swelling, heavy doses of antihistamine and an aborted trip to A&E. Followed by therapeutic vodka swilling with friend awaiting prognosis of breast lump already removed (scary scars) whilst Erbie snored on sofa through only open airway.
p.s: Glad you all sound well. The sun is coming back, Lady Di's pirate ship is a beckoning.