This morning, I found myself on the wrong side of the law, and lacking the necessary documentation to back up my right to be behind the wheel of my car. That\u2019s right, ladies \u2013 I started my morning with a friendly chat with a local policeman.<\/p>\n
Singing along with the radio and ignoring the speedometer? Check.<\/i><\/p>\n
Pulling over at the sight of flashing lights? Check.<\/i><\/p>\n
I dutifully handed over my insurance and registration and realized with dismay that my wallet \u2013 and more importantly my driver\u2019s license \u2013 were sitting on the kitchen counter at home. Darn that online pizza order!<\/i> Why didn\u2019t I remember to put my wallet back in my purse?<\/i><\/p>\n
Hello, darling. Won\u2019t you join me for a blue light special?<\/p>\n
Police officers are largely not impressed with your lack of a driver\u2019s license, in my experience. Also not impressive? <\/i>He had to hand me a pen to sign the unsigned registration form for my car.
\nWorse still?<\/i> My proof of insurance expired last month. Mind you \u2013 my vehicle is<\/i> insured. But I didn\u2019t have the little blue square of paper on hand to prove it.<\/p>\n
While the man in blue ran my plates and considered my lack of appropriate paperwork back in the squad car, I considered how overwhelmed I am with my current life circumstances \u2013 certainly a factor in my lack of preparedness in this moment.<\/p>\n
I work my family in around the forty hours I contribute at the office. I try to wash just enough laundry to keep us all in clean socks and undies, and just enough dishes to make sure we\u2019ve all got cereal bowls in the morning \u2013 and spoons to go with. I\u2019m ashamed to admit that I don\u2019t remember the last time my husband and I had a date night, so I\u2019m not managing to work him into my priority list at all. And as for me?<\/i> \u2018Me time\u2019 is dictated by the IV drug treatment I receive once a month for MS \u2013 my guilt free day off every 4 weeks.<\/p>\n
Today, however, is not my<\/i> day. Today belongs to Officer Calhoun.<\/p>\n
\u201cMa\u2019am \u2013 I\u2019d like you to slow down and pay a little more attention, please.\u201d This advice is more valuable than he could ever know, and I plan to do my best to take it to heart on, and off<\/i> the road.<\/p>\n
And officer? Thank you for letting me off with a warning.<\/i><\/p>\n
How about you? What are you not<\/em> doing to care for yourself?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, I found myself on the wrong side of the law, and lacking the necessary documentation to back up my right to be behind the wheel of my car. That\u2019s right, ladies \u2013 I started my morning with a friendly chat with a local policeman. Singing along with the radio and ignoring the speedometer? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[120,35,164],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellness","tag-liz","tag-perfection","tag-self"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}