Synonyms for Boring

        Well, Feisty Pants had a busy weekend. We attended a baby shower this weekend.  She was thrilled.  Last weekend, she had some weird bug -a tummy bug, we think, and so was stuck at home. Anything is better than being stuck at home .  Heck, she got stuck in an elevator (only for a few minutes) which she found funny.  Anything that freaks out an adult is a great thrill for her. Dinky Pants was there and created some mild mayhem as only a nine month old can do.  That delighted her even more.  Best of all, Feisty Pants has made some leaps in her speech as of late, so the mom to be, who is a friend of Hippie Pants, was there to be awed and amazed by FP's new verbal skills.  In her mind, all those presents and games about babies were just filler between elevator adventures and showing off and cake.

        Sunday was our typical Sunday.  Football and cleaning. Seemed to take forever but we finished and no one cried or threw up or had a temper tantrum.  The kid was pretty good too.  And that was our almost exciting weekend. (She says just one fun thing alllllll weekend doesn't count.)  Now it's another Monday night. As I sit here attempting to type this on my phone, Feisty Pants is sitting here dozing on the couch beside me. Missing one of her favorite shows (Spooky Hollow-it is not Sleepy Hollow she says, because there is nothing sleepy about it. )  But it is Monday night, she had a busy day at school and then massage therapy today.  Not a bad end to a busy day and a busy weekend.

           And that's the point of this post.  There a million ways you are forever different from other parents when you have special needs child.  But sometimes  more importantly, there are a BILLION ways that you are just like everyone else.  We love, eat, argue over football, hang out, embarrass our children with our oh so freakish existence.  We bore them and nag them and annoy them with our presence and horrible rules.  Just like every other weird, boring, embarrassing parent.
           And on this boring Monday in boring October,  when everyone is boringly well, a night of listening to my eleven year old dozing on the couch is absolutely boringly awesome. Tonight boring is a synonym for beautiful.