Halloween | makingbabycoutts's Blog

Welcome to November 1st, my birthday.

Doodles is spending the weekend at her grandmothers so that Daddy Coutts and I can have the weekend off unencumbered. The plan was to take her up to her grandmothers then go out to a haunted house in downtown.

I got to thinking about it though. I pictured the crazy busy hustle and bustle of downtown traffic, made even more dangerous by all the one way wrong way no left turn no right turn streets. Then there are all the bright car lights from oncoming traffic and oblivious pedestrians in all black jay walking and darting from in between all the parked cars lining the streets.

I thought about what a nightmare parking would be. Provided there was any to be had at all it would likely be far away and cost more than we wanted to pay. Once we had tackled all of that we would be standing in line for a long time.

Now, those of you who have been reading these blogs for a while know enough about Daddy Coutts to know he HATES absolutely HATES traffic. He will curse and huff and puff. It used to make me nervous but now I just take it in stride because he gets over it once he's home. I thought about what condition he would be in after navigating through the drunk drivers, the pedestrians, the crazy streets and the parking lot jungle.

He also hates waiting. He can be patient when he wants to be but most of the time he doesn't feel like being patient. I'm not complaining, but it did play a role in my decision to go out last night. I knew that he would already be frustrated and irritable even before getting to the long line that would no doubt be wrapped around the building by the time we got to it.

Do not misunderstand. I am not blaming him for us not going out. I am glad we stayed in. I decided to stay in because everything we were going to downtown for was still going to be there tonight and with much less of the halloween crowd and hassle. It just seemed easier and less stressful. Isn't the first time I've celebrated a holiday the day after :)

I ended up sleeping instead and believe you me that felt wonderful. I needed that.