on being late...

sometimes being late is perfect. like right now. i am about an hour late for my november 3rd blog post... but that is okay.

it was a long day/night at work. we got out late. i came home to find my most wonderful and caring husband on the couch awaiting my entry into the house. he is now lying on the guest bed next to where i tap away at these keys. eva is with my momma in north carolina. they went to see my little brother (who refers to himself as my big brother). he will be deploying soon. eva keeps bragging that she'll be six when he returns, thinking "wow, i'm going to be six!" and yet, this saddens me to no end that my brother will not be so near as he has been all my life for two years...

when we were younger we had a system for who got to sit in the front seat (before all the laws about kids in the back and carseats until 80 pounds, etc.). we had "odd" and "even" days. i was odd... this meant that every once in a while i got two days in a row... but it also meant that yauncey got the front seat on his birthday, mine, and our momma's. of course, when portia and damien were in town, they were exempt and got to sit in the front seat... on account of their being born before us!

but we lacked such a system for saturday mornings.

i was talking to bobby this morning over breakfast about how i miss saturday morning cartoons. i remember for as long as i can remember mom having to work most, if not all, saturday mornings. yauncey and i would wake up without our usual phone call from the airport, and the sun would be shining through mom's windows, brightening her bedroom where we all slept on the king-size four post bed. he would usually wake up first, much to my dismay, because that meant he would get to choose the feature.

we would drag bowls, cereal, milk, spoons, and kitchen towels (because we didn't use napkins) into the front room where we would remain for the next few hours. until our friends woke up and called us out to play.

we knew that this show was on this channel at this time, but when it ended we had to switch to this channel for this show, which lasted an hour but we would stop watching it early so we could switch back to another channel for another show. bobby's world, eek the cat, pepperanne, x-men, fudge... the list goes on.

so, perfect timing, right? husband moved into our bed just now... i think that i'll do the same.