Impatient About Patience
Apr. 28th, 2010 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryJD had lunch today with some of her friends. I had penciled into my schedule that I needed to be on kid duty from 11am-1:30pm...or so. Calvin started wondering what was taking JD so long around 1pm. Nigel joined in on the "Where is Mommy and why isn't she home yet?" bandwagon a little before 2pm. This snowballing of impatience grew and grew. I repeatedly requested that they practice their patience and find something to keep themselves entertained until she got home. JD's absence wasn't keeping them from doing anything they wanted to do. They just really wanted to know exactly what she was doing.
I snuck off at 2:25pm and called her cell phone. No answer.
When I returned to the living room, the impatience was boiling over into full-blown drama meltdown. The unknown status of JD's return was ripping apart their psyche. I told them that Mom hadn't answered her phone, so we had to just be patient because she would definitely be coming home as soon as she was done. As Calvin and Nigel were complaining that them going to the front porch to look for her wasn't sufficient in addressing their concerns, JD pulled into the driveway.
I am now in our bedroom doing deep breathing exercises and looking forward to the kids going out to dinner with my parents this evening. Tomorrow will undoubtedly be an office day for me.
I snuck off at 2:25pm and called her cell phone. No answer.
When I returned to the living room, the impatience was boiling over into full-blown drama meltdown. The unknown status of JD's return was ripping apart their psyche. I told them that Mom hadn't answered her phone, so we had to just be patient because she would definitely be coming home as soon as she was done. As Calvin and Nigel were complaining that them going to the front porch to look for her wasn't sufficient in addressing their concerns, JD pulled into the driveway.
I am now in our bedroom doing deep breathing exercises and looking forward to the kids going out to dinner with my parents this evening. Tomorrow will undoubtedly be an office day for me.
