Clowns, Jokers, and Me

the song goes something like...
Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right
Here I am, Stuck in the Middle with You.

That is the chorus of our song. I love it when it comes on the radio and my DH smiles at me, knowingly. Hubby and I called it our song because it was in the first movie we saw together (Reservoir Dogs). And it was technically our 'first date' though we went through the whole dating, married, kids thing fairly backward. We have survived nearly 12 years together and most of that married and with kids.

Middle seems to be a theme with me. I am a middle child and I married a middle child. We are very middle class (if there is such a thing). If average can be used as synonym for middle, I am average height, wear the average American woman's dress size and shoe size. Right in the middle. I pray that my I.Q. is above average but most days it doesn't seem likely. Running a house, home educating one son and sending one off to middle school, and staying completely in control of my thoughts and emotions is strenuous at best. Though sanity has little or nothing to do with I.Q. Most geniuses seem to be eccentric at best and completely mad at worst.