Non-Maternal Moment

Being a mother is such a wonderful thing!!!! Everything you do is centered on this one way of life. No matter, what you do, what you say or how you feel, you will always and forever are a mother. With that in mind, I was having what I thought was a non maternal moment, yes a moment where I thought for the next 2 hours I am not a mother. Not because I dislike being a mother but because I just don’t have the times like I had last Thursday night. Me and a few of my fellow co-workers decided we would head out for a night on the town at a local bar that is known to be quite the place to hang out on Thursday nights. I was just saying how good the drink special of the night, the $5 margarita was on point and how I was about to indulge in a second drink when my phone begins to vibrate my hind parts. While, I could have had my phone in my purse, I had it in my back pocket because in the back of my mind I was having maternal thoughts and I also knew that my children were only a phone call away in my hind pocket. At first, I thought it was my imagination that I felt the vibration but then I felt it again. Lo and behold the caller id says, “Hubby”. Now if I’m out with the girls my husband is very good about not calling me unless there is what he calls an emergency. In this case, it was. In a loud bar of music, I can only hear blah, blah, blah, wah, wah, as I say HUH, I CAN’T HEAR YOU, WAIT A MINUTE, LET ME WALK OUT!!!!!!

So this is the conversation when I get outside to hear:

Me: “Ok, what’s up?” My thoughts, “This better be good.”
Hubby: “Can you stop by the store and get some tape on the way home?
Me: “We have tape. Didn’t you just tell me the other day there was some packing tape there? Can’t that work?”
Hubby: “No, not for this.” Avoiding right out telling me what’s going on.
Me: “Well, what do you need the tape for?
Hubby: “For our eldest child.”
Me: “Okay, what is she doing that she needs tape?”
Hubby: “It’s not what she’s doing; it’s what she’s done.”
Me: “Ok, again what is it.”
Hubby: “Well, she had a little accident. She was running in the house, when I told her to stop and then she comes in the kitchen, not saying a word only to lift her foot up and there is blood and no toenail.”

So there went my night out with the girls without husbands or children. Needless to say I had that second drink because he seemed to have everything under control and I didn’t know when this non-maternal moment would come again. It really didn’t do any good because in the back of my mind all I could do was think of my baby and her toe, so I had to leave and get that tape. LOL…..

Gotta love husbands and children!

Jassy B.