Hot Headed

If your air conditioner stops working on the first hot day of the year, take a few deep breathes and relax before deciding to call for help. Otherwise, you will agree to let the repairman come to your house that night "between 8 and 11 pm" with no regard to your own sleep habits, your children, or your neurotic dog.  Then, you will find yourself still waiting as 11 approaches with both kids jammed in your room to allow access to the attic (one child in a pack and play and another in your bed- both awaiting to wake and cry at the faintest sound) while you try to figure out how you are going to keep your Jack Russell from barking her head off and gnawing on the intruder repairman when he shows.   Take it from me, kids, save yourself from the barking dog, the crowded room, and the crying kids and just wait until tomorrow. After all, people went centuries without air conditioners, surely you are tough enough to make it one night. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to try to sneak out of my house and into a comfy hotel without Meggan and the kids noticing.