When the man and I first got married, and bought a house, the overwhelming feeling was, "This place is too quiet." We would turn the TV on in the background, or blast music through the place to overcome this complete lack of noise.
When the girl came along, one of her favorite things to do was to crawl over and push the power button to turn off whatever machine was pumping out my music. Also, car rides were no longer silent because she hated them and cried from the moment her carrier clicked into position to the moment the car doors opened again.
Sometime between then and now, silence slipped away. Quietly, no one really noticed. Now, I get no silence, ever. The TV is on at night until that noise is overpowered by the man's snores. The first thing I hear in the morning is either a screeching alarm clock or a whining child. The noise continues through breakfast, getting the oldest off to school, then the boy wants to watch cartoons, then the youngest needs me, then they play, noisily.
When the kids finally do settle down and go to sleep at night... oh yeah, the man turns on the TV again. The closest we get to silence is locking the bathroom door and taking a shower, or the rare car rides alone where I can turn the radio off.
So lets all have a moment of silence, for Silence. *<Mommy!!!>* yeah right!
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