Hiway @ MindSay

Many parents out there know the feeling behind the human need to strangle their children.  Or prehaps sell them to the circus.  And if the parents out there that don't understand that feeling......count yourself's lucky that you don't have children that are overly inquisitive, overly confident, stuck on stupid, or just don't use their head.

What happened to me this morning will cause me never ever to close my eyes again........not even for *just a second* in the presence of my children ever again.  Especially my daughter.

We wake up at normal time this morning.  Six am.  I get the kids out of bed, they get dressed and get breakfast.  I do my normal routine and go climb back in bed till about quarter till 7, all the while listening to the kids.  Everything goes smoothly.  I get back up, grab a cig, make sure both kids have their bags, homework, and lunchs.  Do my duaghter's hair.  I sit down in my chair with a blanket becuase it was chilly this morning.

It was 10 till 7.  I am still tired becasue I am working on 4 hours of sleep.  I open my eyes back up at 5 till seven telling them to go to the bathroom and lets round up and go outside the bus will be going by here soon.  I look around.  No DeLaney. 

"Coltin, where is your sister?  Go find her and tell her to get going."  said I.  "Okay mom." says coltin.

Coltin looks all over the house and goes I can't find her.  I said okay go outside she is probably waiting out there.  Because she has done that before on me, I am in one part of hte house and she goes outside to do somehitng with out telling me; which is a big no no in my home-kids will report on every lil thing they do and that includes going outside.  He comes back in and says I can't find her mom.

First thing is she went outside and got down by our landlord's horses and got stepped on or kicked!  So I go outside and start yelling for her and was in the process of going towards the horse barn, when Coltin goes

"MOM!  Her bike's gone!"  Sure as shitten the lil animal I call my duaghter decieded to get a bug up her ass and ride her bike 2 and a half miles into town (not couting the number of blocks to get to her school) along a busy Panhandle Road!  The first thing that went through my head was she is going to get killed by some trucker, rancher, construction, or late to work got to get the kids to school mom driving like dumbasses!  Next thing that went through my head was Good Dagdha above!  Some one could snatch her and her bike and we wouldn't even know where to look for her.  She is a raraty intoday's world of few blondes and blue eyed girls!  Then I thought Anu!  She is just fine and a state trooper has her and they are going to take my baby away from me.

I kept call.  Told her brother to go down to the end of the lane that the bus will be coming and stay off the road, I will be right back.  I ran back inside grabbed my keys and my flip flops and tore the hell out of the drive.  I took it slow down our streatch of country road and took my time along the hiway.  Can you believe that lil feral female of a daughter, managed to get a good mile up the road!  In less then 5 mins!  I spotted her and I pulled a ways in front of her, just as a car was coming up behind us...........I almost had to jump in front of a car then because she saw me standing in front of her with the van and she almost swerved in front of hte car!

I yanked her ass off the bike and took her by the back of the neck........I so wanted to beat the shit out of her.....Fling her dress up and drop her panties right there and blacken her ass.  But I didn't.  I didn't yell, I didn't scream, and I didn't go off on her.  I pushed her towards the van and said in a very deadly going to kill you later voice.....get into the mother fucking van.......NOW.  Literally thew her bike into the back of the van it landed on the first set of seats and turned around and made it home in time to let her brother know she is fine.  That he would be ridding the bus by himself and that I was very proud of him for not flipping out on mommy. 

I told her to go straight to her room and I went and called her dad.  It was either call her dad or me go off on her.  Randy came home and by that time I had managed to get out of her why she did it.  Want to know why?  Are ya ready for this?  Because I wanted to ride my bike to school!  Did someone ask to see your bike?  No.  I just wanted to ride my bike to school.  Are ya made at me?  Don't ya love me anymore.

Thank gods I am not some guilt trip person, But that is when I lost it.  Randy had to hold me back from her and shove me outisde and lock the door on me. And you ever do anything this stupid again I will beat your ass to an inch of your life.  You could have been hit by a car and been seriously hurt or killed.  You could have been snatched by some sick demented pervert and then mommy would have had to hunt you both down and kill the fucker.  Mom and Dad are more upset because we were scared our baby girl could have been taken away from us if a cop found ya first, killed by a car, or snatched away from us!

I took away the bike.  Randy loaded up all the bikes, hers, her brothers, and ours when he went back to work.  He took them and put them in storage.  Randy took away a weeks worth of tv and comp time.  And we are going to discuss about taking away soccer.

I love my children very much and this is the first time at age seven that my daughter hit that right button where her father had to physically remove one of us from each other's presence.  I always knew that we had confident strong minded kids.  And I had an inkling even though Randy says, Colt will be our wild child, that in fact it will be our daughter that causes us the most grief even before she hits teenage years.  With Randy's looks and his drama queen guilt trip behavior and my fuck it all attitude and Bugger all to authority behavior, DeLaney is going to make my heart keep jumping into my throat for years to come.

I immeditally called my mom and told her what happened and asked her if my siblings or I did anything like that and the answer was no.  And I then apologized for allt he grief I had given them growing up and still sometimes do when I call them to talk because I am so frustrated over things.  My mom started laughing and said wow......your oldest and one of your youngest uncles never got that until their grandkids got to be teenagers.  Your sister won't even consent to say she deservers her sneaky lil back talking daughter htat she has......which is just like her.  It only took you seven years of having a daughter that has the combo of you and Randy's over confidence to say it to me! 

The moral of htis story?  The moral is even though you may close your eyes for a few seconds or minutes and you think your kids know the rules of hte house......they can and will disappear on you in a heart beat.  Either on their own steam or by someone taking them.  And the fact is my daughter will be under lock and key until she turns 18!