It’s very clear why people leave Oman for Ramadan . . . it’s sucking the life out of us. We end up staying home all day because everything is closed, but by the time stores open at 7 pm the baby is almost ready for bed and we’re sluggish and feeling like couch potatoes and don’t have the energy to go out and do anything because we sat around all day doing nothing. And since we’re home all day the house is in a constant state of disarray, but no one has the energy (mental or physical) to clean up either pre or post tornado.
The weather has been beautiful lately, but I refuse to go to the beach if we can’t take food or water. Plus I’m not much in the beach mood because lying around the house all day makes me sleepy. So I’m either tired because I napped or I’m tired because I didn’t nap. Either way, by midnight I’m wide awake and not able to fall asleep until 2:30 or 3am which means I’m tired in the morning and the afternoon which requires napping or fighting a nap. Repeat for the next 10 days.
Yesterday was our 14th anniversary. What romantic thing did we have planned? We took all 4 kids to the doctor to get their physicals for school. Baby had her shots and then was crabby for the rest of the day. We sat in our living room all afternoon and folded laundry, napped, and knit while watching Netflix until our eyeballs were ready to fall out of our heads. Then Josh made dinner and we told the kids to go to bed. Many times. The end. At least we could joke that it was better than our 7th anniversary when we had to drive to Loma Linda with our 3 kids under the age of 6 (including our 1 month old baby) so Josh could have back surgery while I, the “support person” was out of my mind crazy.
Only a week left of Ramadan and then we’ll be Back In the High Life Again (remember the Lakers v Celtics NBA championship series theme song — 1987? Best basketball series ever). Looking forward to the Return of Lucy, the Start of School, and Normal Life Where Humans Eat and Drink during Daylight Hours. I better hurry and dig out of this rut before it turns into a ditch.
Good times . . . remember watching this one Dad? I wanted to find the highlight reel set to the song that they played after the Lakers won, but it isn’t in the YouTube vault. And what’s up with a Laker win, but the top 10 best plays are split evenly between the Celtics and the Lakers? (insert rant about East Coast bias here.)
***The basketball tangent came about because I was grumbling about our dirty house and then off hand thought to myself “pretty soon Lucy will be home and we’ll be back in the high life again” which made me think of that song, which always makes me think of the Lakers. The End.