I nod without speaking because I'm now smart enough to keep my mouth shut when she's letting off steam.
"After that," she continues, "I've got to rush to Cheerleading practice, horse riding lessons and the modeling class."
I quietly nod lovingly.
"When I'm not driving or coaching, I'm working. Two books and two more classes before the end of the year and I'm squeezing it in while I wait on the girls."
Suddenly she stops and stares straight at me.
"Are you finished with your edits?"
Shaking my head from side to side, I quickly engage in a brilliant diversionary maneuver.
"So you're going to join the PTA?" I sympathetically ask.
"I suppose," she sighs while I exhale.
"Plus they want us to buy a hundred dollars worth of candy bars to sell. That's in addition to the discount cards we're already selling for the school band ..."
"I sold two more at the Breakfast Club today," I proudly announce.
Sarah looks at me as though I am blabbering, drooling and setting my hair on fire.
"Shit!" I think to myself. "I broke the rule! Keep the damn mouth shut!"
She picks up a book bag that must weigh 300 pounds and easily flips it over her shoulder and I know that she can break me anytime she wants as she yells, "ARE YOU READY FOR SCHOOL?"
One girl is spraying several gallons of hair spray on her head while the other is desperately searching for shoes that match. Both freeze for a second and then explode into a frenzied last minute dash to get ready.
Meanwhile Wonder Woman easily lifts another 300 pound book bag and leans forward to kiss me goodbye while simultaneously shepherding both girls to the car.
She shoots out of the drive way as though someone fired the shot to start the Daytona 500.
I blow her a kiss and marvel at her motherhood.
I have no idea how she's going to both coach "Girls on the Run" and attend PTA meetings at the same time but I have no doubt that Sarah will pull it off.
She's simply amazing that way.
Now, I wonder what I did with the book I'm supposed to be editing.
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