I am going to complain a little…when I first decided to do a blog I wanted to only post positive things. I wanted to be happy and up-beat. Well today that isn’t happening! Everybody has the day off today. My PIC isn’t working and the kids are out of school. So right now PIC is playing computer games with my little brother (who spent the night…yay…fun!) and the kids are playing at friends houses, or doing what they want to do. Me on the other hand, does not get the day off. I have to do all the things I would normally do, and try to do them around a houseful of people. PIC, told me to kick back and just take it easy today. What he doesn’t understand it that if I do that then I am behind all week. I have to bake bread and do laundry and all the other daily chores that need to be completed. I want a day off, a true day off. I don’t know if that is ever going to happen while I have little kids at home.
4 thoughts on “The Plight of a Mother”
I linked to your blog from Shimmy Mom’s. I hope that’s okay. I have to say I completely agree with this post. I was once told that a sick day for a mom meant that you do everything you normally do, you just do it while feeling sick. I think days off are the same. If you work extra hard and get everything done then maybe you can have time to do something fun. Sounds a little like Cinderella’s life doesn’t it?!
of course it is ok to link to me!!! More the merrier!!!
I promise I am usually more upbeat!!
You know, it used to really hurt my feelings when my kids were really little and my hubby’s boss took him out to lunch a couple times a month. Because face it, I worked harder. And we were so so broke, I never got even a cheese burger.
I think one of the hardest parts of motherhood is getting to the point where we start looking at it as a joyful thing and as a calling instead of as drudgery or “a job.” I don’t know if I’ll ever get there, but it did help to simply ask hubby not to tell me to “take the day off with me” any more. As a mother, there simply is no such thing as a day off. Have you noticed too, that even when you get away from your family – like to a hotel – you still can’t just leave it all behind? It’s still in the back of your mind, “Are they okay? What’s the house going to look like when I get home?”
I agree 100%. If a day off isn’t really a day off!
I am going to complain a little…when I first decided to do a blog I wanted to only post positive things. I wanted to be happy and up-beat. Well today that isn’t happening! Everybody has the day off today. My PIC isn’t working and the kids are out of school. So right now PIC is playing computer games with my little brother (who spent the night…yay…fun!) and the kids are playing at friends houses, or doing what they want to do. Me on the other hand, does not get the day off. I have to do all the things I would normally do, and try to do them around a houseful of people. PIC, told me to kick back and just take it easy today. What he doesn’t understand it that if I do that then I am behind all week. I have to bake bread and do laundry and all the other daily chores that need to be completed. I want a day off, a true day off. I don’t know if that is ever going to happen while I have little kids at home.
I linked to your blog from Shimmy Mom’s. I hope that’s okay. I have to say I completely agree with this post. I was once told that a sick day for a mom meant that you do everything you normally do, you just do it while feeling sick. I think days off are the same. If you work extra hard and get everything done then maybe you can have time to do something fun. Sounds a little like Cinderella’s life doesn’t it?!
of course it is ok to link to me!!! More the merrier!!!
I promise I am usually more upbeat!!
You know, it used to really hurt my feelings when my kids were really little and my hubby’s boss took him out to lunch a couple times a month. Because face it, I worked harder. And we were so so broke, I never got even a cheese burger.
I think one of the hardest parts of motherhood is getting to the point where we start looking at it as a joyful thing and as a calling instead of as drudgery or “a job.” I don’t know if I’ll ever get there, but it did help to simply ask hubby not to tell me to “take the day off with me” any more. As a mother, there simply is no such thing as a day off. Have you noticed too, that even when you get away from your family – like to a hotel – you still can’t just leave it all behind? It’s still in the back of your mind, “Are they okay? What’s the house going to look like when I get home?”
I agree 100%. If a day off isn’t really a day off!