10:15 PM - Bid the last of our beautiful home group friends good night. Load up the car and kids.
10:45 PM - Arrive at my parents' house, get the kids tucked into their beds, set out hunting stuff, go to bed and pretend to sleep.
5:30 AM - Alarm goes off. Get up, get dressed, pack lunch.
6:15 AM - Leave for hunting spot.
6:45 AM - Unload four-wheelers and head into hunting area.
7:00 AM - Dad gets a flat on his four-wheeler. Spend 20 minutes trying to fix said flat, to no avail.
7:30 AM - Continue into hunting area with Dad driving on a flat tire.
8:00 AM - 2 PM - Hunting. Discover that my blasted thermos has developed a leak and lost approximately 3/4 of my coffee on the way in. Lots of laughs, lots of does, but no bucks to shoot. This is, however, the view from our blind. We really suffer for Jesus out there, you know...
2 PM - Head back to truck, praying the entire time for Daddy as he drives his broken four-wheeler. Sometimes I wonder if my daddy's guardian angels just look at each other, shake their heads, and say, "Here we go again!"
4 PM - Arrive back at parents' ranch, change clothes and pack bags.
4:30 PM - Leave ranch and drive 1 1/2 hours to town in neighboring state for 4th grade playoff football game.
6 PM - Drop Jerome off at the field for warm-ups, take the girls to find coffee for Mommy and dinner for them.
7 PM - Arrive back at game field to eat dinner and cheer on our boys. And yes, all 21 of them are my boys.
8:30 PM - Hug and comfort our sweet guys after a heartbreaking 6-0 loss, eliminating them from the playoffs. Find a drive-thru to get dinner for Jerome and a post-game snack for our 3 bottomless pits.
9 PM - Leave Farmington for the hour drive home.
10 PM - Finally get home, get the girls in bed, and find a few minutes to breathe.
I'm actually impressed I got all this down coherently. But my brain is now shutting down, so it's time for bed for this mommy.
1 comment:
Your brain might be mush, but it sounds like you have a new hunting tale to tell now :)
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