If you want your dream to come true, don't tell it before breakfast....or is it after?
Last night I had the most scariest dream I do believe I've ever had in my life. I dreamed me, Michael and Jacob went to a basketball game. It was at Southern Miss. Well while we were kind of walking around before the game started, we saw this girl that we both know online. We've actually met her in person like 2 or 3 times. Anyway, so we sat down and started talking to her. I was holding Jacob, and Michael said "I'll be right back...I'm gonna go get something to drink." So I sat there with Jacob, talking to this girl for a few minutes, and she was all like "Awww, Jacob is soooo cute!" and then she asked me if she could hold him. So I was like "Sure." So she was holding him, and I turned my head the other way to look at something that caught my attention for like TWO seconds, and I turned around and she AND Jacob were GONE. I looked all around me, up the steps, around the concession area, and she was NOWHERE to be found!!! First of all, I was mad simply because she went somewhere with my baby without telling me where they were going. But then I started really getting scared that she had ran off with him. I bumped into Michael and told him what happened, and we frantically began searching the whole arena. After what seemed like hours, and even getting the security people involved, still nothing. And THEN we saw HER in line at the concessions, she had NO baby with her, and she gave me this evil smirk!!!!!! She dumped my baby!!!!!!!!! Well right after that I woke up, and would have woke up Michael, I was so scared, but Travis was in the bed with us and waking Travis up is a big NO-NO, so I just laid there, soooo glad that it was only a dream.
I probably dreamed that because Travis went on his first outting yesterday with a non-family member and without me, which was a lot more nervewrecking than I ever thought possible. Now I know exactly what my mother went through every single time I went anywhere without her, lol. My neighbor down the street that has a little girl a little bit younger than Travis, called me yesterday morning and asked me if I thought Travis would want to go to story time at the Horn Lake library, and I was thinking to myself, "Ummmmm.....let me think of an excuse why he CAN'T go" but the problem was, I couldn't come up with one, so I said "Well if he wants to, sure." I was so paranoid about this that before she got here to pick him up, I took an index card and wrote his name, date of birth, address, and phone numbers on it and taped it to the inside of his backpack, so that if he turned up missing, at least his backpack might turn up. Call me nuts, but this world is full of sickos and I really don't want my kids on the 1-800-THE-LOST ads, ya know? Now don't get me wrong...I wouldn't let Travis go with a complete stranger. We've known this neighbor since before her daughter was born, and we've been to each others' houses a lot. It's just my paranoid self. And now I'm thinking I'm turning into my mother!!!!!! Before they left, I asked her how long story time lasts and she looked at me like I had a screw loose just for asking!!! But she told me it lasts 30 minutes to an hour. It started at 10:30, so I spent the next hour thoroughly cleaning every single toy in the toy box and throwing away little tiny pieces that might be considered a choking hazard, JUST to pass the time. 11:30 rolled around and I started getting anxious. I would look out the window every 30 seconds, craining my neck to look down the street as far as I could without actually going outside. 11:40...11:45...11:50, STILL not back yet. I got the phone book out and looked up the number for the library, called, and asked "How long does story time usually last?" to which the lady on the other end replied "About an hour." Okay great. So I called Michael and said they weren't back yet. And Michael was like "Maybe she took them to McDonald's to get a bite to eat." And I was like "Michael! A parent NEVER takes someone else's child somewhere OTHER than where the parent said they were going!" He acted like it was no big deal!!! And I'm like "What?? I'm sorry, but *I* would *NEVER* take someone else's child somewhere without telling the parent first!!!" ESPECIALLY a TWO-YEAR-OLD!!! Now my mother, when I was in freaking HIGH SCHOOL, if I went somewhere with somebody's parents other than where she knew I was going to be, she would be P'D ROYALY!!! And all that happened was, I spent the night with a friend, and her mom was driving me home, and ON THE WAY HOME, her mom stopped at Walmart to pick up her paycheck and then we went to my house. That made my mom sooooo mad and I never spent the night with her ever again. Maybe THAT was a little extreme. But I don't think it is too much to ask a parent to let you know where they will be taking your TWO-YEAR-OLD!!! ANYWAY, 11:55 and I heard little kids' voices outside the door, and they were back, safe and sound....WHEW!!!!!!!! I NEVER could understand why my mom worried so much about me when I would go somewhere without her, but NOW I know the pure agony she felt. I used to even ARGUE with my mom and say, "When I have kids one day, I'm not going to be overprotective and I'm not going to worry about them like you do me." And now I have kids of my own and it's like open mouth insert foot.
