SOLS #16: In the Night

"Just start getting it down," Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird.  Well, here we are past the halfway point.  The hardest thing about this challenge is putting something out into the world every day.  This needs A LOT of work...but I just thought I'd start getting it down.  

My alarm went off at six o'clock this morning.  Slowly I put two feet on the floor still tired from reading Slice of Life posts well into the night.  I walk into the foyer with eyes half open.  I first notice a laundry holder resting by the dryer.  "That's strange," I think to myself.  I try to wake up to make sense of the clues.

I open the dryer to find my son's clothes inside.  Still half asleep and trying to focus I think back.  I had let the dog in for the night, turned off the lights, and locked up the house before going to sleep.  I was up until after midnight and didn't hear him come into the house, but signs are everywhere.

Still trying to put it all together I wander into the living to find my son's shoes and belongings on the floor.  As I wake up it is beginning to make sense; surprised I didn't hear him I check for the final sign.  I walk across the kitchen floor and into the dining room.

As I walk into the dining room I glance at the table to find the snack basket is no longer heaping with snacks.  The Doritos are gone.  The Sunchips are gone.  The Cheetos are gone.  I'm sure he was amazed to find I had actually been to the store recently.  The last few times he has visited there has hardly been a thing to eat according to him.


The signs are all there, sometime in the night my son must have quietly arrived home for the weekend from college.  I'm looking forward to coming home this evening to catch up with him.  I'm sure the Fritos will be gone by then.