February 21, 2006 - Tuesday
Current mood: crazy
This is a true story. The biography of a 23 year old girl, temporarily thrown into motherhood well before her time. The people are real, but the names have been changed to protect the identities of everyone involved.
It all started on a blustery Wednesday night in mid-February. There was an eery chill in the air and Nicola knew she was in for a stressful week. Her parents had decided to jaunt a few states over to Florida to watch the Daytona 500...A slight inconvenience, of course. But Nicola contemplated how her parents had provided and cared for her throughout her entire life, and she decided to comply with their request (that, and they really left her no choice). Wednesday night was rather uneventful. Her brother Mitchelo, finished his homework, took care of the animals, and retired for the evening. Nicola took care of some household chores, and prepared herself for her lovely day off tomorrow.
Thursday was wonderful. No problems. No major messes. Nicola began to think that perhaps this week wouldn't be so terrible afterall.
Friday morning, Mitchelo got ready for school, and Nicola groggily took him to his friend's house where he was to catch the bus for school. Nicola made sure she had plenty of time to get him there, but Mitchelo noticed the bus passing by on the way to his friend's house, and told Nicola that apparently the bus had come early that morning, and that she would have to drive him to school. They arrived back home, and Nicola resigned herself to the fact that she would not be resting anymore that morning, and about 10 minutes later, Mitchelo's friend Keitho called to ask Mitchelo why he wasn't there to catch the bus. Nicola wearily took Mitchelo and Keitho to school that morning, and as she was driving, Keitho explained that the bus driver drives past the house two times to go around the circle before actually stopping at his house. Nicola's brain was saying, "I told you so", but her mouth simply smiled.
When Saturday arrived, Nicola knew the remainder of the weekend, and into the next week, would be very taxing on her. For now she would be caring not only for young Mitchelo, but also for a bright young girl named Kristena and her teenage brother named Davido. She worked hard all day long, and then stood in the freezing cold temperatures to fill up her car with gas for the long and grueling journey that lay ahead of her in the following days.
The next two days were filled with entertaining children, preparing food, cleaning up after children, enforcing regulatory bath and shower times, and supervising calls to mommy and daddy.
From Saturday until Tuesday, Nicola drove over 150 miles, just around her small village. She had to continually travel back and forth between the house of Kristena and Davido and the house of Nicola and young Mitchelo. Mitchelo was requried to take care of all of his animals twice a day, which made for some very tiresome journeys through the vast countryside. Nicola would arise around 6:00 in the morning, and not lay her head to the pillow until approximately 12:30AM because she was busy cleaning, preparing for the next day, doing laundry, and writing in her online journals.
There were some tears, some tummy aches, and some wimpering calls to mommy, but through it all Nicola learned the joys and challenges of motherhood. She decided that she would never have children and probably never even get married...Either that, or she would simply not attempt to manage two households at once for a long time...
And they all lived happily ever after. The End.
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