So guess what I did all night last night? I lay awake in my bed playing out horrific scenes of rollover car crashes with my 9 year old being smeared all over the highway. Honestly, it was four AM, and I was trying to force images of Cameron's funeral out of my head.
I really, really don't like to let other people drive my kids anywhere. Especially at six AM when the drivers might be tired and doze off while going 65 MPH down the freeway. Or what if the tires on someone's minivan are bald and there's a blow-out? All kinds of horrors passed through my mind.
Consequently, I was dead tired today. I dragged myself through my daily chores, and finally, at 4:30, my son came back in the front door, all in one piece.
Hallelujah! I am gonna sleep good tonight!
Being a parent is exhausting.
Or maybe it's just being crazy that makes it so rough.
Right there with you on the morbid imaginations that plague us parents while we lay awake at night.
ReplyDeleteI'm so paranoid about SIDS that I check on Juliana several times a night. I can't help myself!
I'm glad Cameron came home in one piece and hope he had fun! :)
Oh my Gosh! I thought I was the only one who did that..I was starting to think I have some kind of obsessive worry mental issue thingy going on. Uh, no I guess I am just a mom.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how I will feel when Alex is driving soon. I think I will need a Valium!
Not having children of my own and having had to rearranged my life so so loose a half a day once because some crazed parent did not trust me to drive their daughter I think you're NUTS. Do you think the driver wants to get into bodily damage? Do you think they intentionally want to harm your child? NO, they don't, they will drive that much better knowing they have someone else's precious person in the car.
ReplyDeletePoor you! I'm sorry it stresses you out to the point of not sleeping. Glad he returned safe and sound.
ReplyDeleteWe've all got our own flavor of crazy! I have only let my kid ride with my MIL a sprinkling of times and it tears my nerves up every single time!
ReplyDeleteGlad he made it home safely!