The only sound in my house right now as I type this is my dog sort of snoring, and I am loving it! For the record, I love my kids of course. As I told my husband last night I feel guilty - kind of. I have two great daughters 7 and 5 yrs old. Beyond random bouts of drama and some whining here and there they are good kids. I am grateful for no major issues with them, they are happy and 90% of time they are best friends. I only have 2 kids and a fairly slow paced life, so nothing to complain about.
BUT...By evening last night I was on my last mental leg for no good reason, except thatword mommy popped out of my kids mouths every 10 seconds for 4 days straight. I live in Upstate NY where for right now the weather makes us stay indoors quite a bit, we have been hunkering down together. To be honest I am just rattled. Beyond going out for dinner Sunday night, I had not been out of the house in a few days. Monday, with a break in the weather I thought I would do something fun with the kids to break things up a bit. It was frigid outside, so we opted for (big gulp of sanity) Chucky E Cheeses! Supermom or stupid mom, not sure which category I fall under for that one. We spent 2 1/2 hours there, I hated it but my kids loved it. Of course they thought I loved it too, would never let them how I really felt. Just followed along holding buckets of tokens and keeping track of tickets. By the time we left my head was about to explode and I started counting down the hours until bedtime and the lovely moment I could sit on the couch with a glass of wine by my fire and regain control of the remote control.
I thought I had ended this three day weekend doing great, we were home for most of it but did some fun things. Only to be woken up early yesterday morning with an automated call from the school announcing a snow day. What???? My husband looked at me with the greatest sincerity and ask "are you going to be ok". I said yup, and I was, we had a good day at home. My girls played together well throughout the day and I was actually able to tackle some of my to do list. However, I am grateful for school today, my few hours of some peace and quiet - minus a snoring dog.
My children are grown now but oh how I remember those days!
Posted by: farragio | January 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM