Once upon a time there was a beautiful, if ditzy, woman named Gena. She imagined her life as a frenetic act on an exposed stage, the one where the person has thin poles and keeps plates spinning on top of all of them at once. Each plate had a title; Wife, Mother, Daughter, Cook, Chauffeur, Maid, Handyman, IT tech, the "Can you...?" go to person... you get the idea.
Now, periodically, Gena would get distracted by one plate and a few others would drop. Like when the DSL router died leaving all three computers in the house off the net for over a week. And between teaching and getting her son's bedroom ready for him to reoccupy she forgot about scheduling her twin daughters Senior pictures. And paying a few bills...? Well, I'm sure we can all relate to this.
When the plates start falling, chipping and splintering around her, Gena likes to remind herself of another time her plates all fell. Feeling sad she hid herself away in her Mother's bedroom, quietly shutting the door behind her. She was feeling horrible, as if she'd let everyone down.
At the time Gena REALLY wanted a few minutes to herself. Well, she got it. A very few minutes. About five minutes after stealing away her children found her and quietly arranged themselves around her. Did she feel she'd been invaded? Absolutely. Did she mind? Not so much. You see, as the invasion commenced there was not a sound. Silently they came in and cuddled up.
For the last two weeks Gena has been dropping plates but she's found the Elmer's! I predict that she will be doing pretty well by next Monday or Tuesday.
4 comments:
I have been plate dropping a lot too! Thank goodness for people who love us unconditionally! This is a sweet memory!
I am sorry you've been having a plate dropping time! I thought I was the only one that did this. Man I feel like for the last year or so that is the story of my life. One plate dropping after another. I'm so glad that we have people to love us and help us glue things back together again!
I've been thinking, "where is Gena?" "Chris Came Home"...and then what??? I didn't realize all this plate spinning and plate dropping and glueing was going on... sounds so stressful! It's hard to be all things to all people but they've even given it a name, it's called Mother. Sorry about the router but now that your computers are back in business you'll be surprised how much better things are...hahaha! Have fun in Utah, it's beautiful here too. We will be up north for the game on Saturday (I can't believe we're doing that again) and then it's off to Breckinridge until the Marathon.
That is the sweetest picture! They love you SO much! I am happy to tell you that plate spinning is not allowed at my house. Your plates have been put under a magical suspension spell for the duration of your visit! See, around here I can only handle one plate at a time. I pull it out and carry it around until it gets too heavy, then I put it away. Sometimes I don't even get another plate out for awhile!
Paper plates...that sounds good for the rest of the week!
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