A Day In The Life...

Well as you may already know, Justin is officially deployed.  This bring tears quite frequently from Alexyss and has glued Luke to me permanently.  If you don't believe me, read on...

I made plans to head to Starbucks with a friend on Wednesday.  Usually I am able to shower, get dressed, apply make up, and blow dry my hair in 30 minutes so that I can be out the door.  Add to that some time to get Luke ready (Lex was at school) pack a bag of tricks, and such and I estimate it'll take 1 hour to get ready.  Normally I'd be right, but remember Daddy is gone.  I tell my friend I'll be ready by 10am and I pride myself at being on time.

8:45 - I head upstairs to shower with Luke glued to me.  I go into the closet, pick my clothes, decide to start a load of laundry, and made Lex's bed.  Luke has not left my side and I've bumped into him a few times and knocked him over once.  Into the bathroom I go where he's in my way until I enter the shower.  I get out and he's still there, playing with soap and water in the sink, waiting for me.  I brush my teeth then tell him to wait here, I just need to run downstairs to get a hair brush because they migrate (with Lex's help) to the downstairs bathroom.  He follows.  I figure while I'm down there I'll feed the cats, he runs right into me.  Upstairs we go and I get dressed, brush my hair, and blow it dry.  All the while he's sitting on the edge of the tub watching me, making sure I'm not leaving him.  I decide the shirt I picked isn't quite right so off to the closet I go.  He squeals an awful squeal and chases after me.  I try on another shirt and then another going from my room to the closet and the bathroom and then back again... and he's glued to my leg.  I tell him I'm going to run downstairs and get my phone because I need to make sure my friend hasn't tried to call.  He looses it.  Full meltdown... and I run down.  I run into him on my way back up.  I sit him on the bed while I text her and explain to him that I am not, under any circumstances, leaving him.  I head into the bathroom to apply make up and he rushes after me...  it's 10am.  Make up is finally on while he watched on and I go to his room to get his clothes... he runs after me.  His jeans are in the dryer, I tell him to wait there while I go right across the hall for them.  He squeals again and grabs my leg.  Clothes for Luke are found and into my room we go to get him dressed and to again explain that I am not going anywhere without him.  We head downstairs and I realize I don't have his DS to keep him entertained while we chat at Starbucks so I run around the house taking a quick look for it.  Guess who's on my heels and who got knocked over again?!  No DS in sight so we're off... 10:35am.  Grrrrrrrr.

Needless to say, we didn't leave the house today.  I just didn't have the energy.  I hope this too shall pass!  Otherwise I'm going to be one of those people who is always late for everything... and I despise those people!