Library Fun…..

Thursday is “toddler day” at our local library. As the weather has turned, so have our options for daily child-friendly entertainment. So I had a brilliant idea – What’s is more fun than listening to a person with seemingly no off-days read with such animation? Follow it up with a craft or art project and we have the perfect morning time-waster, right? Maybe if you have earplugs and are highly medicated.

We make it, honestly, to page two and my two year-olds are fighting over who gets to sit on which knee, who gets which puppet and making me, (please note - the only mother there with two children) stick out like a sore thumb! So I grab our things quickly to avoid the glares I can feel penetrating my skull. As we are making our way to the back I realize I have left a beloved sippy cup, I make a mad dash back with my boys running behind me “mommmmmmmmmmmy….” We appear to be circus at this point, I mean the real thing.

Finally, we are all calm, we pick out books and head for the stairs, just then one of my boys decides he wants to stay and “read book, read, book, READ BOOOOK” - Now, what mother refuses their child a book? Me. So I say “okay bye bye Parker” which was quickly followed by an echo of a “BYYE, BYE Par-per” coming from my other son – he is of course screaming this – As I try to persuade him to “shhhhh, and whisper” he looks right at me “shhhhhhh, whisper Mommy” then of course “BYYE, BYE Par-per” comes screeching out. I wish the floor would swallow me up. I will spare you the rest of the details, of how I managed to maneuver my way out of the library doors and pile all three of us into the car safely.

As I drive past McDonalds, I think “I should just stop and pick up Happy Meals all around” - but I don’t because I know I have the BEST leftovers waiting at home. “Hole Mole” Taco Chilli, no one can resist it not even the hooligans in the back seat.