What does YELLOW mean on the traffic control signal?
Drivers usually fall in to one of two categories.
When the light goes from Green to YELLOW do you:
A) DROP THE HAMMER, hope for the best and see what the Vortec engine has left in it after 150,000+ miles, 3 kids and their accompanying carseats, 2 dogs, and endless runs through any and all drive thru windows.
OR
B) exercise caution, cover your brake and slow your motor vehicle down safely behind the white line that protects you from oncoming traffic.
Lately I've been so busy with life - we've been so busy with life - that I haven't noticed "the light change from Green to Yellow." The pool closed for the season and with it another football season started. Another school year began with all of the fanfare and excitement that a 4th grader and a 1st grader can muster. Our "volunteerism cup" runneth over. House chores never went away and the days didn't suddenly get chronologically shorter. So why then, at the end of most days, do my wife and I giggle in hysterics only because we are too tired to know otherwise?
Life has been a hundred miles an hour. We are constantly on the go and have refrigerator calendars that regulate and delegate to our other refrigerator calendars. Without so much as a moment to breathe, Michele and I are doing our best to stay positive and stay active but if we maintain a pace like this something is surely to give.
The light is turning YELLOW.
The competitive drive inside us makes us think we are invincible. We just need to DROP THE HAMMER and press on through to the next challenge but in reality we know what we want to do.
Time to - exercise caution, cover your brake and slow your motor vehicle down safely behind the white line that protects you from oncoming traffic.
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The rugrats made us breakfast in bed on Sunday morning. Logan and I spent a lot of time in the woods last weekend listening to barn owls and recharging our own batteries. Mom & Emma got in on some retail therapy and even got my baby girl's ears pierced. Big happening in their little worlds too. Emma got voted on to the Student Council. Logan won a gift certificate to East Central Sanitation which he promptly turned in to $20 bucks - straight cash homie.
Our weekends are precious. For now, it seems like the only time that we can take some time to enjoy the ride. The rest of the time we're just hanging on.
It's good to have responsibilities some times... but some times a guy just wants to sleep in.
1 comment:
It is always fun to teach our toddler what the different color lights mean on a stoplight - Yellow means slow down of course - until you hammer down through the yellow light and she says from the back seat, "I thought yellow meant slow down not SPEED UP!" Ha.
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