Women's Meeting

Tonight Tina asked me to take the kids for awhile so she could have her women's meeting here at the house. Once a month she and her friends get together in a formal setting to talk about their lives in a formal (no cross-talk please) setting. From what I can tell, they talk about the same things in this meeting that they talk about everywhere else.

I agreed to get the kids out of the house, and devised a plan to take them to see the new movie "The Incredibles" and then to bring them back home and put them to bed. Unfortunately we got to the theatre too late and the movie was sold out. I was not to be deterred, however, and so I made the executive decision to keep them out past their normal bed time and to see a later showing. That ended up being fine. We went and saw the movie and then headed back to the house.

When we came into the house, the women were all sitting there in the living room. The lights were down low, and there were candles burning. One of them was saying something about something until I came in. At that point, it got silent and I had the uneasy feeling they were all looking at me as I walked Hannah into the bedroom while holding Ben in my arms.

Once I had them in bed, I came back out into the living room with the intention of getting a Sprite from the kitchen. Again someone was saying something about something and as I entered the room, it became deathly silent. This time I looked, and sure enough, they were all looking at me. It was not a good look. It was a scary look. It scared me. As I walked upstairs I could almost swear I heard a sigh and then something like "Okay... he's gone..."