That Dark And Lonely Highway

Alarm rings. It’s 4:10 a.m. I seriously think to myself “you can’t keep doing this every week. You should just stay home. Drop out you crazy person!” Negative thoughts continue to run through my mind as I prepare for the 3 hour drive. Everyone in the house is asleep—ok, all but the cat – so I peer through my window at a dark home as I drive away. I’m leaving my home, again. The kids and husband are all cozy in bed while I head off down that dark and lonely highway. Wait, that’s a song, isn’t it?
Radio sure is interesting in the early morning. On CBC Radio One I enjoy listening to news from Australia and Romania. It is interesting to hear their accents and find out what’s making the news around the world. I find the talk radio seems to soothe me in the early hours and keep my mind working so I don’t get too drowsy as I drive. There was a lot of fog this time, so that helped to keep me alert, as well. This makes me think about how my drives will change as the winter weather slowly approaches (please, every so slowly). It’s not going to be so easy to make the morning drives and I may have to break down and go down the night before. It’s incredible how important this extra night at home has become and I will hate to lose this. Hopefully we will have a mild winter and driving won’t be an issue.
Back at school I really don’t have time to worry about all of these things. It seems that every time I sit down they are handing us another assignment. That’s ok though, because the busier that I am while away, the faster the week will go. I try to get most of my work done so that I can spend the weekends with the kids. I know this won’t work out every weekend, but I’ll do my best! I also have the Monday at home to do work while they are at school and this was my plan for the week passed. The kids, of course, were lecturing me about doing all of my homework immediately and not waiting until the last minute!
Back on the home front, homework is being done, the cat is being fed, and meals are prepared. I suppose they can handle things without me and I suppose I’ll have to get used to that concept! I was reading in the paper about how moms now text their teens to nag about chores, etc. So, I suppose if I really wanted to, I could text my kids with reminders…if they had phones.