Holy Marriage or Holy Mystery?

Monday evenings are particularly busy around our house.  Olivia has dance class from 5:45 till 6:30 and Abigail helps in her class.  Emma has soccer practice from 6:30 till 7:30.  It takes team work to get all of this accomplished.  This team work concept is difficult for my husband to grasp sometimes. Normally, he is off working and I don't generally request his assistance unless absolutely necessary where the kids are concerned.   

This fall it just so happened that Emma's soccer practices fell on Mondays, which unfortunately for Scott fell on his day off.  Guess what Scott?  You get to help!!! YAY!  Let's be honest here, if I had to be two places at once, I would find a way to work it out.  After all, I am a mother, capable of accomplishing anything and everything required of that position!  However, I don't want to attempt such a daring feat.  I am not Chris Angel after all!

Now dinner time is difficult on Monday nights.  In anticipation of the evening, I whipped up a meatloaf earlier in the day and placed it in the fridge to cook later.  I forgot to put it in the oven before I left to take Olivia to dance class. I called home to summon team work before Scott left for soccer with Emma.  The conversation went something like this:

Ring, ring, ring.....
"WHAT?" (in an obnoxious tone)
"REALLY?" (in a what the hello kitty tone)
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"WOW!  Never mind!" (click)

I sat in complete disbelief and wondering if it would be possible for me to reach out and touch someone via the cellular world!  About ten minutes passed and he called me back and that conversation went like this:

"What did you want?"
"I can't talk to you right now!  I will have to call you back." *click*

About five minutes later, I called him back and it went straight to voicemail.  A few minutes later he called back.

"You called?"
"I was simply returning your call!"
"Well what did you need?"
"I needed you to put the meatloaf in the over so we could eat dinner before midnight!"
"Why didn't you just say that?"
(Thought to myself, "I WONDER YOU STUPID JERK!!!!")
"Hmmmm, well probably because you answered the phone like I was bothering you"
"I was in the middle of a situation!"
"What kind of situation?"
"A dead hamster situation....Sarah was holding Abigail's dead hamster in her hands and said it was sleeping!"
"Oh!  Next time, I would prefer you just don't answer the phone if you are going to act that way!  I mean God forbid the nerve of the phone to ring during a time when you are busy!"

Now I understand that he was busy dealing with the dead hamster situation but to answer the phone like that is just not acceptable to me!  I deal with "situations" all day long and still manage to be cordial to anyone who happens to call. What irritates me even more than the behavior he displayed is that he seemed totally oblivious to it! The only perk to the evening after this was that he did all the dishes and cleaned up the rest of the kitchen. 

Oh and if you are wondering what happened to the poor hamster, someone left the cage open and the dog got it.  Sarah came across it and brought it to Scott.  However, Sarah is the one who claims to have found the hamster and she does have a propensity towards violence to animals.  She killed one of the girls' fish awhile back.  She had taken it out of the fishbowl to "play" with it! There was also no mention of the pink dinosaur, she must have been stuck in the wall!

Sincerely,
The Queen of Insanity