Sometimes it would seem once we a become stay at home mom, we as individuals cease to exist. Why does this happen? I think part of it (an only part of it) is due to our nurturing nature as females. The rest is the kids simply sucking the life from you!! Well, I am only half-way joking. When you have 3 kids and each with their own demands coming at you at the same time, not to mention your husband/significant other arrives home from their day, you are immersed in their needs wants and desires. You don't have a moment to think of your own let alone make some attempt to see it through. .
By the time you have run the errands, gone shopping (and not the fun kind)picked up the kids from school or from their friends house, helped with the homework, picked up the house, washed some laundry, refereed some arguments between the kids,and then your husband arrives home from his day..and of course dinner still needs to be made. Oh crap! I forgot to take anything from the freezer, so it's scrambled eggs and toast, bacon if they are lucky. Then berate them into the showers and pajamas, stand over them as they brush teeth (5 seconds is not long enough!) and if you're really on your game have them little critters in bed before 10pm, that's a good day. After all this I can't seem to carve a little time out for me. I am simply too damn tired Oh, to read uninterrupted or watch something besides Sponge Bob or "American Idol" or the like. Someday, someday. That's what I keep telling myself anyway!
Realistically, I know that my little critters will one day be gone (one can only wish!) and I will be ......... I will be what? A mother that is no longer needed on a daily basis. My husband will not be retired yet so no one I can travel freely with. These thoughts leaves me with only one conclusion, I need to either get busy doing something now, or I will simply go crazy! \What a wide open opportunity. Can't wait to see what I do with it.!
By the time you have run the errands, gone shopping (and not the fun kind)picked up the kids from school or from their friends house, helped with the homework, picked up the house, washed some laundry, refereed some arguments between the kids,and then your husband arrives home from his day..and of course dinner still needs to be made. Oh crap! I forgot to take anything from the freezer, so it's scrambled eggs and toast, bacon if they are lucky. Then berate them into the showers and pajamas, stand over them as they brush teeth (5 seconds is not long enough!) and if you're really on your game have them little critters in bed before 10pm, that's a good day. After all this I can't seem to carve a little time out for me. I am simply too damn tired Oh, to read uninterrupted or watch something besides Sponge Bob or "American Idol" or the like. Someday, someday. That's what I keep telling myself anyway!
Realistically, I know that my little critters will one day be gone (one can only wish!) and I will be ......... I will be what? A mother that is no longer needed on a daily basis. My husband will not be retired yet so no one I can travel freely with. These thoughts leaves me with only one conclusion, I need to either get busy doing something now, or I will simply go crazy! \What a wide open opportunity. Can't wait to see what I do with it.!
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