the top 10 things that scare the crap out of me
10 - When ONE silently tip-toes downstairs (when she’s supposed to be upstairs napping) and catches me watching an episode of “Sex in the City.” DAMN that Samantha…
9 - When I realize that ONE isn’t right next to me, holding on to the shopping cart. In fact, she’s not even in the aisle. Or hiding in the round clothing racks across the way.
8 - Rushing downstairs in the middle of the night to check the status of the porch door lock.
7 - What being a teenager will mean when my girls get there.
6 - Losing the remains of a buzz from a night out with the BF just in time to realize that I’m pretty much alone in the parking lot. Why didn’t I accept her offer to drive me to my car?
5 - Watching ONE’s night terrors from the doorway because I can’t wake her up. Listening to her scream for something to go away. Hearing the thump of her feet as she kicks off her blankets. Watching as she sits up, thrashes and scoots close to the edge of her bed. Touching her hands, hair and face as she cries for me, but knowing that she doesn’t hear my voice or know that I’m there.
4 – The thought that leads to a thought that leads to a thought of me giving my husband’s eulogy.
3 - Ladybugs.
2 - Rolling over in bed, waking up just long enough to check the clock (only 2am…sweet!) and seeing that ONE is sitting on my floor, staring at me.
1 – When the silence of my 5am writing time is broken by the sound of the battery-operated Duckie game playing by itself out on the porch.
whirrr whirrrr whirrrr whirrrr whirrrr Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack whirrr whirrrr whirrrr whirrr whirrrr
October 31, 2008 at 6:44 am
I have 3 nieces so I know the feeling #7 gives me in the middle of the night. I mean, have you seen some of the halloween costumes that are available for 5 year olds? I always end up thinking about S&tC and that episode where Samantha says she may not have grown up with the money and privilege that the b.j. party brat in the episode had, but at least she had a childhood. That’s all I can hope for, that my girls childhood and innocence lasts as long as possible.
xo c
October 31, 2008 at 9:16 am
I do # 4 too its a creepy image when it pops into my head. #2 would scare the crap out of me also, but I can’t seem to wrap my mind around #3????
October 31, 2008 at 9:26 am
Ladybugs!! Haha!
October 31, 2008 at 9:27 am
The strange random toy noises!! All the time!!! Even scarier when cow-related. Moooooooooooooo
October 31, 2008 at 10:10 am
Just wait for the BIG #1 scare, teenagers and the 2:30 am phone call and the kid’s bed is empty. But please, lets not worry about that one yet…
October 31, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Awesome list. Instead of a duckie, we have a bus with “Thanks for learning with Leapfrog” that randomly plays and scares the bejeepers out of me.
Um, can you do some ’splainin’ about those ladybugs, please?
October 31, 2008 at 4:33 pm
To add to the chorus . . . ladybugs?
And I’m right there with you on number 7. Yeah, I have boys, but I know what teenage boys do, and I really don’t want to go to jail for beating the crap out of them for doing something incrediably stupid.
And I worry about # 9 too . . . only it seems to happen a lot in our house.
Great post, as always!
November 1, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Great post. Reading these makes the stomach fall out of the soles of my feet. Just thinking on them now – #2 utterly unsettling, #5 deeply so. #4 bounces around my mind every so often too…
November 2, 2008 at 11:32 pm
#4 and #7…right there with ya.
September 28, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Glad someone else doesn’t like ladybugs