Sunday’s Column – Fixing The Noise Level

Jul 21, 2013 by winjaw

It is proportionally more quiet around our house this week.

I take that back in part. Let us say it was proportionally more quiet for a couple of days. About the third day of said loss, the Little Black Dress decided to fix that.

Eldest SON of Thunder is missing. He left last week headed to the Boy Scout’s National Jamboree. It is his first real extended time away. And while we are excited for him, I am also a little sad. I realize this is the first of many, and eventually a final trip away from home.

The LBD felt it too. Those who know her know she is a woman of action. If something is amiss, steps must be taken to bring the earth back on its proper axis.

And so the phone call began. Soon the Younger SON of Lightning and the SON of Fire, close friends of the two younger SONs of Thunder, came over. The plan was for a sleepover. Anyone can figure out that combining the various elements of thunder, lightning and fire will create quite a bit of noise and destruction to boot.

I arrived home at the end of the day, a day that saw the various elements in, well, their element. I did not realize how many Lego pieces we actually had. Somehow, they found them all and the mountain of pieces was so high I just had to send it out to my various social networks.

But they soon tired of building various galactic battleships and asked what any kid nowadays does — namely, “what’s the password to your WiFi?”

At one point they had four Iphones or Ipods going. Plus two video games involving multi-players attacking or destroying something. I never really figured that out.

It was about this point that The Dress looked at me, slightly frazzled, and said, “what was I thinking?” I heard that comment more than once. On the bright side, she can accurately say she got her noise level back.
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The four SONs decided, unknown to us, to play the “let’s see who can stay up the latest” game. This is a game I no longer attempt. Somewhere in the wee hours of the morning, the LBD pretty much popped that balloon, telling them if they didn’t got to bed they would be too tired to stay over the next night.

In my rather dazed sleep mode, I rolled over and asked if I really heard her say what I just thought I heard her say. “What was I thinking” came out again.

Yes. It seems The Dress had indeed invited the horde, I mean sweet boys, for an extended stay. And to make it even more exciting, apparently the newly dubbed SON of Wind also would be joining us on the second night.

Throughout the day I received more than one text along the lines of “what was I thinking?” It is not that the various SONs are not great boys, it’s just five boys running all around has the tendency to wear out those of us with a few more years under our belts.

I have forgotten how much five growing boys can eat. I thought it was only in nursery rhymes that a bare cupboard existed. I witnessed it firsthand.

At night, watching yet another movie, we were down to the ever faithful popcorn chicken. Whoever invented whatever it really is deserves a medal. And as we were all digging in, we learned we were out of catsup or ketchup or however you like to spell it. I mean, there was a drop.

Somehow The Dress squeezed and shook that bottle enough that the red sauce came out to satisfy the entire crowd. She laughed as she was doing it, talking about Jesus and the fish and loaves. One of the SONs said they had forgotten the story, so she retold it — with quite a bit of gusto.

The house survived. The Dress survived and even got a Bible story in. My only fear is now that the house has proportionally lost a significant noise level, she’ll try to fix it.