What time is it?

SUMMER TIME! Okay how lame am I, quoting some HSM 2? I can't help it though, nobody says it...or sings it better than that dreamy Troy.



So it's officially summertime her in Rupe Corner. I had my last day of work and the girls had their last day of preschool today (sniff). I am so EMO about them ending preschool, I don't know what's wrong with me - especially because I'm using terms like EMO. They love their teachers and they've made so many friends, I'm so sad for them that a chapter is ending yet excited for new beginnings. I just get so hung up on daily routines and when they end, I freak out. Like yesterday for example. I'm sitting on the 210 freeway, in traffic, in 90 degree heat. I'm running the air and watching my gas light come on....as it does every other day now. I think about how I take my usual route, exit Irwindale, left on Arrow (sometimes I stop for Jack's 2 taco deal), right on Vincent...this is where my cell phone usually goes out if I'm talking to someone, which I usually am. I HATE this part of my day and yet yesterday, I'm crying because it's the last time I'll go through that routine.



Next I pick up the girls. Maddy's friends see me coming and always yell out "Maddy, your mom's here". Maddy greets me with a big hug but then tells me to go get Lily. I go get Lily who runs screaming towards me..."mommy!!!!" or sometimes it's "I want daddy!" We go get Maddy, I promise them snacks in the car and then we head out to the car where the fighting begins.



Lily doesn't want to sit in her seat. She sits in Maddy's and won't move, then she wants to wave to the cars driving by, then she doesn't like the snack choices. I end up pinning her down in her seat to get her buckled in and then she'll scream "I don't like you!" Everyone buckled in, I'll pass out snacks, Lily will try to direct me and if I don't turn where she wants me to, she'll scream. Maddy doesn't want the freeway even if the roads are blocked off and there is no other choice. We fight over the radio. Lily wants "come on" (Janis Joplin), Maddy wants "chair" (dancing through life). We settle on Wicked and we all sing. Lily says "Mommy don't sing", Maddy says "Lily's looking at me", Lily says "Maddy's not my friend," I want to jump out the window....on the freeway.



We get to Chino Hills and I say, "girls were almost home" and Lily responds "no we're not!" I say, "yes we're in Chino Hills"



Lily: "NO Gino Mills"



Me: "Yes Lily, look at the sign, it says Chino Hills" I'm seriously trying to reason with her?



This goes on as long as Lily wants it to because even if I don't say anything, Lily will demand I say things. She'll feed me line by line of illogical toddler script that runs through her head. And if you know Lily, you just humor her and do it. She's not the quiet and delicate flower that her name suggests.



We arrive home and I am not allowed to open Lily's door without yelling "Boo.....raaaaaar (like a lion)". She has to get out herself and although I always have to pee very badly, she's not quick about exiting the car.



Both girls will then go over to the next door neighbor's fountain and proceed to soak themselves before going in the house.



Doesn't all of this sound lovely? And I'm sad it's ending?