When You Wish Upon A.....

It's Spring Break in NBO land. Just the thought of a whole week of no school makes me incredibly happy. An entire week of not having to rush to get N to the bus in the morning, trying to convince her to let me brush her hair as B is repeatedly asking me to turn on Mickey Mouse, and O is screaming for pancakes. A whole week of not having to listen to the School Day Morning Medley that plays in our house:

Ouch! Mickey Mouse! Pancake! Mickey Mouse! Ouch! Pancake!

I was hoping that, one of these mornings, I may even get the chance to hear myself think. But yesterday morning, I realized that the Spring Break Morning Medley is pretty similar to the School Day Morning Medley.

Mickey Mouse! Pancake! Mickey Mouse! Pancake!

Since I still had to brush N's hair before we left the house--just a little later than usual-- she got to do a solo.

Ouch!!!!

Ok, so maybe Spring Break mornings aren't going to live up to my expectations. Spring break is still a good thing. The kids get to spend a lot more time together, which always makes my eye twitch heart swell with joy. It's so great when they are able to drive each other crazy  play happily together for a whole day. N was a little disappointed that we weren't going to Disney World like a few of her friends from school, and kept asking what we were going to do on Spring break, but I explained that we will still have fun--enjoying not being on a schedule, and just spending time together. We also get to see friends we don't see much when everyone's in school, and they get to stay up a little later than usual.

Last night, for example, we let the kids stay up late and we had a fire in the backyard. (This was Jimmy's idea. He told N and B that if they picked up all the sticks in the yard and brought them to the fire pit, he would build a fire. No sticks. No fire. Smart man. I'm totally stealing this strategy. Today I'm going to tell them that, if they weed and rototill the whole yard, we'll plant some flowers. No weeding and rototilling. No flowers.) So last night, because I wasn't up for playing "How long until O falls or is pushed into the fire", we put him to bed, and Jimmy, N, B, and I sat outside around the fire. We noticed that alot of stars were visible last night, so we were looking for constellations (yes, I said looking for, not looking at. Since we're pretty clueless in this area, we couldn't look up at the sky and say "Look, kids! There's Orion!" Instead, we played "Hey! Who can find a bunch of stars that look like...anything?")

At one point, Jimmy said "Wow, look! A shooting star!" We all saw it, but the thing was, it wasn't exactly shooting, or even falling. It was just moving, very slowly across the sky, and then it disappeared. We thought this was odd, but since we knew it wasn't a plane, we decided it had to be a shooting--or at least meandering--star. "Quick!" We told the kids, "Make a wish!" N happily informed us that she already had. A few minutes later, we saw another one. Again, it didn't shoot, or even fall, but made it's way slowly across the sky before disappearing. Again, N made a wish. Jimmy and I looked at each other, thinking maybe these weren't stars after all, but since they looked exactly like stars, and didn't have flashing lights like planes, and since they disappeared, we figured they had to be stars. Jimmy asked N what her wish was, and she told him she couldn't tell since then it wouldn't come true.  B, meanwhile, decided that he didn't care about shooting--or meandering--stars. He was much more fascinated by his juice box melting in the fire pit.

A few minutes later, we saw another meandering star, and now even N was questioning what we were seeing. In fact, she informed us that "This is really freaking me out". We assured her it was nothing to freak out about, thought maybe these weren't shooting stars after all. She relaxed, before rolling her eyes and asking, "Did you really just have me wish upon a plane?"

Of course not, honey.

Apparently, we had you wish upon an iridium satellite.

Now how many kids can say they got to do that on Spring Break?