How I Failed Five Today

He wanted to play "Star Wars" after school, and I didn't make Four surrender the tv as soon as he walked through the door.

How I Failed Five Today

Told him he could have two chocolate chip mini muffins, but when he went to get them, there was only one!

How I Failed to Fail Five Today

Today I drove him to Walgreens so he could buy a Beanie Baby with his own money. And when we got home, he saw it had a hole, and I sewed it! In the same day! No fail for me! Suck it, Five! (Too harsh?)

How I Failed Five Today

After Tae Kwon Do, I brought the pizza home, instead of letting him eat it at the restaurant. I am always messing that up

How I Failed Five Today

Even though he is quiet in his bed, I always snuggle with Four first.

Lyrics to Live By

Even through a stone a flower can bloom
You just need a little push, spring is coming soon
Umbrella in the rain, let it roll off your back
Weather what you can, realize what you have

Put a little light in the darkest places
Put a little smile on the saddest faces

"Virginia Bluebell"

MIRANDA LAMBERT

How I Failed Five Today

Wouldn't let him eat salami at 9:00 at night.

Luminous Lyrics

Until the last resilient hope
Has frozen deep inside my bones
And this broken fate has claimed me
And my memories for its own
Your name is pounding through my veins
Can't you hear how it is sung?
And I can taste you in my mouth
Before the words escape my lungs
And I whisper only once

"The Secret's in the Tellling"

DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL

How I Failed Five Today

Ha! I did not! We walked home from the bus stop, and we stopped at all the storm drains to watch the rushing water from the melted snow. And I did not hurry him at all.

Luminous Lyrics

It's been minutes, it's been days
It's been all I will remember
Happy lost in your hair
And the cold side of the pillow

Your hills and valleys
Are mapped by my intrepid fingers
And in a naked slumber
I dream all this again

"Crack the Shutters"

SNOW PATROL

How I Failed Five Today

Let me count the ways. Most egregious: I promised him Burger King and five puddings, because he had a horrible day, he's crying, you know, just like that time in gym, and then I did not get him Burger King!

Luminous Lyrics

The fire, the wine, the bed, and you
In this crimson light I find the truth
And truth is like a punch or two
It hits you hard and knocks you through

So I get on the road and ride to you
I get on the road and ride to you

Kiss like a fight that neither wins
One tender payment for our sins
You are the drug that I can't quit
Your perfect chaos is the perfect fit

"Get on the Road"

TIRED PONY

How I Failed Five Today

Told him the foot doctor would just look and see that everything was fine, but instead he had to remove some dead skin. I didn't deliberately deceive him, but I feel like I actually failed him this time.

Luminous Lyrics

Now your eyelids, they faint and they shiver
Like the wings of the last bird to leave
For the south, for the heat, for no reason
I watch as they fly for sheer joy.

The wind shakes the branches above us
And the cars shake the ground at our backs
But the dark Roman wine in our bloodstreams
Makes the cold just a word, just a sound.

"Dark Roman Wine"
SNOW PATROL

How I Failed Five Today

Wouldn't let him drink an entire bottle of Gatorade before bed.

Luminous Lyrics

Love, it will not betray you,
Dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free.
Be more like the man
you were made to be.

"Sigh No More"
MUMFORD & SONS

How I Failed Five Today

Made him go to sleep with no pain reliever for his sore arm. The one he was using to wrestle his brother, with no complaint, up until the very moment I laid down to snuggle.