When staying home with three younger children, a mom sometimes needs a quiet place. A place of solitude, the only place, it seems, where she can get away to read her daily bible verses and hold up a quick prayer. A place to sigh and rest. A place called the bathroom. Her cozy chair is a throne and she is multitasking like no body's business.
Unless, of course, it is the business of a three year old. The three year old, full of concern, worries why mother would close the door and sit quietly in the bathroom....alone. She knocks quietly.
And after no response, she then begins to say her mothers' name and knock harder. "You ok, mommy? Can I come in?"
"No mommy needs privacy."
"Oh," she says to herself, "privacy."
"What's privacy?" Knock, knock, knock.
"Mommy wants to go potty quietly, go play."
"Oh, ok, I will play here mommy till you done."
Sigh,"no go away."
"But mommy I love you! Are you going poopy?"
This is the point where I close my bible, forgetting what I was reading anyways and wrap up my not so quiet, quiet time.
I can relate to this. Actually, it almost feels like you have been living here in my house.
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