My husband is almost always late!! To everything! ALL THE TIME!! And it drives me crazy. And here is his reasoning: ” if the event doesn’t start until 10:00 am I don’t need to be the first one there.” Let me think about this for a minute…. Now, when I get invited to something or even, we’ll say church. Church starts at 10:00 on Sunday morning. Every Sunday. Now, if we are not on the Helps Committee that Sunday, in my opinion we should get there at least 5 minutes early. 10 minutes would even be better! Alot of times I am on the Worship Team and am there an hour early so he brings the kids at 10 but they walk in around 10:10-10:15.

Over the past 16 years that we’ve been happily married I’ve learned that when we get invited to something, if I tell him right away he will not remember anyways, so I will wait to closer to the date of the event and I will let him know that it starts about 30 min before it actually starts, lol. Now, I’m not saying that I have never been late to anything in my life because come on, I’m a mom! When you have 3 kids under the age of 5 and you’re trying to get them all loaded up, all the bags packed, toys, snacks, diapers etc., you are bound to be late. It’s not easy!

I’ve come to find that it’s a lot easier, in my opinion, to just stay home sometimes too. We are very much home bodies! We’ve realized together as a couple that we don’t have many friends outside our family or work circle and we’re ok with that! My sister is my best friend! My sister-in-law is my best friend! My husband, best friend! That’s my circle, they know we will be late and they are ok with it! We like to make jokes with each other that when our kids are out on their own, what are we going to do with just each other? We actually get along pretty well and we do have a couple hobbies we both enjoy doing together so we should be ok!

This makes me wonder if I get more annoyed by it the older I get? I don’t remember when I was younger if it seemed to bother me as much as it does now, but I also find that the older I get the more other things annoy me also! Anyone else have that? I pray that I’m not the old lady on the block when I’m older that yells at the kids running up and down the sidewalk in front of my house shaking my cane at them to “get on outta here, ya hoodlems!! ”

I also notice that the older people get, the less they seem to care about what other people think. They are brutally honest and don’t apologize for it but they can right? They paid their dues!! Anywho… I could go on and on in multiple directions with this one but that’s enough for now. I’m happy in my little bubble and just know, if you ever invite us to stuff, we’ll probably be late and I’ll learn to be ok with it 🙂