Clueless

Todd's been up late the last few nights working on his thesis paper, and has been falling asleep on the couch for the couple hours of sleep he actually gets. So upon waking up, I was not alarmed when he was not in bed. As the next hour passed, I was busy waking up girls, making lunches, refereeing fights, wiping noses, repairing a skirt, getting Claire breakfast and sending three out of four out the door to school. When I finally had a moment of quiet (with the exception of Claire's incessant cry of "Mommy, I NEED you!!!" -meaning she wants me to hold her and look directly at her without distraction while she tells me something I already knew or something I didn't want to know.) I sat down to check my email when the phone rang. Answering it, I was surprised to hear Todd's voice on the other end! What!? I asked where he was and he told me he was at work already. I had to admit, I'd thought he was here somewhere the whole time. "When I noticed you weren't on the couch I figured you were in the bathroom." I wonder how long it would've taken me to figure out he wasn't in the bathroom.