As we embark on this 4.5 hour car trip, meaning 7 hours with children, that will likely seem like light years or half-lives or some other completely unacceptable time-frame— O, HEAR MY PRAYER! O mani padme ohm, O mani padme ohm. Namioho rehnge KYO. (Thank you Angela Bassett)
No car trouble.
No DVD malfunctions.
And for God’s sake--yes, I sincerely mean for your sake and mine Adonai--may Husband’s bladder endure 75 minute intervals rather than 45 minutes. Or dear Lord? At the very least may the intervals not interfere with naptime. (I know, I know, I should get him the Stadium Pal) Nothing like a sleeping tot to make Husband start his potty dance.
May we have temperature equilibrium, rather than battle between fresh or faux. I prefer fresh, don’t you Yaweh? Or maybe you and Mother Nature engage in this same age-old argument?
If things go poorly, may our offspring not incriminate us to our inlaws. Like that one time the airport shuttle kept passing us over and over again at O’hare, and Five who was Two at the time cried out “Oh SHIT this SUX” two days later and apropos of nothing. I know yesterday Twopointfive was growling and muttering “dammit” under his breath, and that “under my breath” happens to be my specialty. But, dear heaven-on-high, especially may he refrain from experimenting with the JC word in front of The Christians? CHEESE ON RYE! HE SAID CHEESE ON RYE!
God? Seriously? No tickets for asinine moving violations like u-turns or running a yellow light. I don’t even think that’s a real violation, and even though I passed the damned field sobriety test—thank you God for not inventing the Mother’s Exhaustion Scale. In any case, I can’t afford more points off my license.
And finally, in addition to our basic health and safety;
I pray for clean potties I pray for clean potties No Twopointfive no touchy I pray for clean potties.
Faithfully yours,
Ann
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Thank you to Joanie from Joanie's Random Ramblings for this sweet little number
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