Shipwrecked!: Pushing Our Luck

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Pushing Our Luck

We had a hard day.

I'm not really sure why either. It just didn't work out. You know sometimes, someone pisses in your coffee and the whole day is ruined.

Okay hopefully that didn't actually happen.

We started the day by attempting to go to church as a family. But Camden was having a trying morning, and when we attempted to drop him off at the nursery, he conducted a spectacular fit of rage that we could not ignore no matter how much we tried. So, Brad and Calen stayed, and I took the rage machine home. Who fell asleep in the car by the way, at 10am.

Then, while we were home, he somehow managed to smash his face (I'm not sure how, as I was outside busy chasing Chance around the neighborhood). He has a huge welt on his forehead and a black eye.

P.S. Calen leaped off his bed yesterday and landed face first into the train table, giving himself a massive welt on HIS forehead.

CPS will be calling soon.

Then of course I had to drive back to church and pick Brad and Calen up, and locals will know that today is the ONE day of the year that you don't ever, ever leave your home. Shoobies have invaded and it took 35 minutes to get 3 miles down the road.

Well that eventful morning aside, we had a good day outside riding around on the 4 wheeler and doing yard work. And then we pushed our luck this evening and let the kids stay up WAY past bedtime and go to the Sunset Parade on base.

Sunset Parade: little ceremony done at sunset a few times a year on Sundays that is open to the public. Recruit companies are marched out in formation, cannon is shot at sunset, color guard honor guard etc etc. On lucky days maybe even a flyover (not today though).

It was definitely pushing our luck. Camden was a basket case the first half of it and on the walk back to the house in the wagon, Calen said "I'm just so SO very sleepy." To which I said: "That's the best news I've heard in years, buddy."

But that's okay. It was worth keeping them up late enough that they didn't even try to negotiate extra bedtime stories or play when we got back. They went straight to bed and we never heard a thing from them again.