Miles, Clark, and I just (and I mean an hour ago) returned from a 100+ mile round trip to "the big city" to fix an order boo boo.
It was fairly blissful, the three of us riding along in our nearly empty 15 passenger van. There were no seats in save for the one I was sitting in, the vacant one beside me, and the furthest back seat on which Miles and Clark sat strapped into their carseats. They had both fallen asleep before I'd gone 20 miles from home. That was good.
Long about 40 miles from home on the return trip, Clark woke up and apparently thought he'd DIE if he had to sit another moment without a hug and a kiss from his mother. (I'm sure that's what it was......right?).
What's a mom to do in the dark of night in a van that huge with such a vast expanse of nothing between herself and her darling---but squawling---cherub?
She did what every sane mother would do. She stopped at the nearest milkshake place and instructed the 3 year old how to spoon feed shake into the 2 year old's mouth as they rode side by side in their car seats.
Raise your hand if you happen to know the sound of a plastic spoon falling to the floor of a van. I was truly hoping I was simply imagining it......but moments later, as I suspected, I heard the fateful, "Mommy, I dropped my spoon."
Sheesh. Being pretty much a LOT of miles from nowhere, I told him, "Just wait a little while."
And that worked. By the time "a little while" passed, Miles fell asleep again. Clark did not and he was, apparently, ready for another hug and kiss. This time I tried drowning it all out with the radio, which has by necessity to be played loudly anyway due to the front passenger window being lost within the door.
We're home now, none of us the worse for the wear. Clark, in true fashion, is not a bit tired because he had taken the snooze earlier. Since it is now some minutes past midnight, I believe I'm about to hasten the sand through his hourglass.....
Long about now, Paul, Maria, and Audrey are probably in central Missouri. They left early this afternoon with friends from church to attend a wedding planned for tomorrow.
~Colleen
