Being a mother during the year is one thing. Being one when the kids are out of school is another. It's been a week and I'm begging for mercy. I know I whined about this before, but have you tried to work from home when the kids are present? Ha!
Oh but you want a sample day?
This morning I picked up a little friend of my ten year old at his house. He lives 20 minutes away but his mother has a crippling illness and cannot drive. Right as we arrived at the house, their cat was chased, attacked and mauled by a dog in the front yard right before our eyes. Because the mother cannot move I got involved the best I could but was powerless, and powerless to protect the children from seeing this carnage. It was awful. The owner of the dog managed to make the dog let go of the poor kitty, but the cat, badly hurt, crawled under the house where we could not dislodge him.
This took half the morning.
I finally brought the kid to our house, but he felt sick, poor little guy. He wanted to be brought home, which I did. (another 20 minutes each way.) The instant he got there he started to throw up. I was relieved it did not happen in my car, but now worried there are flu germs all over my house. I stopped feeling sorry for myself when I added in my head: 1 sick mother+ 1 near dead kitty+ being sick away from home... Some ten year old have more on their plates than most.
Now my kid is home and pressuring me to go to the movies because "he has no friend to play with and has not even seen Transformer and is BORED'. But movies are loaded things too. For example: don't bring yours to Year One. That was one seriously filthy movie, and I am no prude. If you're a mom there is no way to look at the ratings and know what to expect from a movie. Someone told me about a website that analyzes movies and describes each scene in detail. I recommend you keep Kids in Mind in your bookmarks. I'll know for next time. (read this and marvel at the level of obscenity they have managed to cramp into a short hour and forty minutes while maintaining a PG 13 rating (spoiler alert)
So now it's 3PM and I haven't done any writing (blogging does not count, sorry.) Should I just reach for the bottle of Tequila and call it a day?
