Mommy Dog Days - Part 2

I have been waking up early this whole week (yes I know we are only on Wednesday, but give me the benefit of the doubt here), and taking a shower and having coffee while blogging or something that will inspire me before Liam wakes up - I have not showered before Liam awakening since he was born in June 2006. Instead, I choose to delay that gratification as a decompressing exercise before every night with my glass of wine, yes, I do bring it into the shower with me.

So I got dressed and poured myself and my hubby a cup of tea this morning knowing that I would be writing at Panera with a large cup of coffee and a nice sandwich. Stomach turning from hunger would have to wait a while longer. I woke up Liam, and of course, immediately came his plea, "I not go to school today mommy." I got him dressed and fed and out the door 15 minutes early (I never thought I'd leave that early) and this only gets us to school 5 minutes early (his school is 10 miles and 25 minutes away. I peel him from me like a leech and hoping his crying and tears would subside soon, I am off to write.

I get my coffee and sandwich and sit down. I spend a few minutes rereading the last page I wrote and putting on the cloak of my protagonist and close my eyes to imagine the setting in Mendoza where my story is based. I write for 2 hours, freezing myself to death, changing the music on my ipod to better inspire my writing process. When I'm too cold I go outside to warm up under the sun, listening to Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and find a new inspiration bit for my story. I loved that one. Breaks are always good, they provide perception. I go back and finish another half hour and go to rummage the fun housing racks at Marshalls, something I haven't done in a year or more. I catch a mom I don't know perusing and we started a conversation, I wanted to get her contact info but didn't. I should have. I should do a personal card like my friend Harmany to hand out.

So far so good. I pick up Liam from school and wehead to the Post Office to do his passport card for the cruis. We stand in line for 30 minutes, while Liam is trying to pull the line marker down but mostly being very well behaved until the asshole attendant very annoying tells me that I have to have an appt. UUUGGGHHHH!!! Did I tell you I have a toddler and that we had waited for a half an hour?

So we headed to the downtown office, completely 10 miles the opposite direction towards downtown, with my little boy happy as could be saying, "We go down town mommy." We make a pit stop at the golden arches (McDonald's) knowing that this is going to take a while. Only to go to the wrong office, cross busy streets. But all the while Liam happy as can be at the many sights of police cars and policemen in uniform like the ones he only sees in books. We find the right place and see a very lovely woman who informs us we need two things we don't have. Again, UGGGHHH!

We head to Payne Park so that Liam can play and have lunch - I really wanted to reward him for being so good. But Payne Park sucked with hardly any playground under no shade on a very hot day. We drove all the way past our house, another 12 miles, to the brand new park whose opening we attended this weekend. Liam was happy, and also, was just starting to have a poopy accident in his underwear. Did I mention that we are also potty training and that we must take these precautions of asking potty questions and keeping in mind all of the places we will be going to and where and if there are bathroom, making provisions for all of the trees he will have to pee on if they don't?

Well, I got him cleaned up and on the playground, eating his nuggets and apples, where he was happy as can be, and I sat under a slide trying to get all the wind in the shade of a slide. We'd been at the part for almost 2 hours before I called it quits, to my child's astonishment because he still had tons of energy.