What does it mean when you sit up in bed at 5:17 a.m. like you've been hit by a bolt of lightning from a real as life dream where the van you're driving, which isn't your usual green one BTW, but some other van you've never even seen before, is speeding down your residential street at some unnameable speed, and not the legally posted 25 mph that you always do and the steering wheel is powerless in your hands?
What does it mean when you wake up from this dream on the Friday morning before Easter Sunday. The Easter Sunday that is 2 days away, and some 10 give or take relatives are due to come for dinner, and you haven't even swiped a counter, or dusted a table, or swished a toilet yet? When you haven't even penned out the grocery list yet, much less planned the menu, or shopped for it?
Could this dream have anything to do with the awesome Easter baskets that you're famous the "house-over" for, the very baskets that your children have been talking about for days, the ones that you always have prepared and they just can't wait to find all the clever clues tucked here and there in the house, that lead them to these heavenly baskets bursting with everything they can imagine? The wonderful baskets you haven't even pulled out of storage yet?
"Probably just that cold pizza you ate right before you went to bed," offers my husband. "Just go back to sleep." Maybe he can go back to sleep, but I know I can't. I fling back the covers, my heart still pounding from the dream. "I'm no dummy....I took Psych 101...I know exactly what that dream means," I mutter to myself. I throw on my cleaning clothes, pull my hair back in a rubber band, and decide I'll begin with the toilets. I can mentally do the grocery list while I scrub, and I'm pretty sure that within the next 24 hours I'll remember where I have the Easter baskets from last year...
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!
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I do have a preoccupation with toilets, and their cleanliness. The following will explain it all: I live with 4 males. Not as sexy as it sounds.
Hilarious - you are a great writer. And I absolutely LOVE your blog tagline. I'm your newest follower.
ReplyDeletePeryl (MBC asp. writers)
at times, i am so very happy that our closest family members live 6 hours away. i haven't even thought about easter dinner. we'll go to church and then i have homework to do the rest of the day. who knows, maybe we'll have cold pizza for easter dinner. :)
ReplyDeleteTiffany! Stay away from the pizza!!! Happy Studying Day, smart girl...
ReplyDeleteOh, Peryl!! I know you!!! My gosh, you're the one that led me to Organic Motherhood with Cool Whip. I owe you, girlfriend. Thanks for the visit, and the follow. I'm so very flattered.
ReplyDeleteLOL, I hope you have everything ready in time! :)
ReplyDeleteHilarious! And too true, I'm afraid. I desperately need to clean my bathroom for the 12 people we're having for dinner, but I'm blogging instead. Gotta have priorities...
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the preparations. You'll pull it all off . . . I would have done the same thing. I'd rather get started swishing toilets than toss and turn.
ReplyDeleteMH: I envision your home as ready, sparkling, and full of hospitality. I know I'm right, don't try to deny it.
ReplyDeleteDEM: That's why we loves each other, we both have our priorities straight.xoxoxo
mep: sigh, I'll get it done. But, oh, WHY do I let the stress get to me????
Happy Easter to you too.
ReplyDeleteHi! Stopping by from MBC. Great blog.
Don't stress. Just enjoy being together. You are a great hostess and your food is so delicious and healthy.
ReplyDeleteDear VL: So happy to see you here. Have a wonderful Easter, too, and thank you for your visit. Truly.
ReplyDeleteDear Anon: you know I love you, sweet thing.
There's still plenty of time... you can stay up all night writing clues and filling Easter baskets after they go to sleep!
ReplyDeleteFollowing your lovely blog now!!
ReplyDeleteHi there - yes, I agree with you, that dream was definitely your subconscious giving you a wake up call in more than one sense! I often wake up in the middle of the night and mentally add one more thing to my to do list - and then worry I might forget it again before morning so have to get up and go and write it down! You are not alone!
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Dear Lovely AM: taking a break from swishing toilets, what a wonderful surprise to see your face here. Great to start getting to know you. Your blog is lovely.
ReplyDeleteHey There, oh you'll get it all done..I can tell..you are one determined chick...or chic I should say...I would love to see your baskets..I stopped doing them a short time ago.. now I give a gift or $$$$$...but we do have fun anyway...Have a great one..!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you, too, Robin.
ReplyDeleteSounds like every holiday is super special over at your house. If I come for Easter, do I get a basket too?? XOXOX
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