Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Caution: This is a "woe-is-me" post!
Oh, my gosh! I feel for all those single parents out there. I really do. I cannot imagine how life would be like caring for three kids all the time with no spouse for support. I have not seen Benn in three days. My kids have not seen their dad in three days and I am about ready to blow! You see, because of the slow down in the economy, Benn has been forced to find another job. Although, I am so grateful for this, it puts a big strain on the time Benn is at home. He goes to work during the day with his new job and then for the last three days, has come home changed and left to go do work for his company, Slide-Lok of Las Vegas. I would be the worst single parent! By the end of the day, I look forward to Benn coming home and helping me out with dinner, cleaning up, playing with the kids and then spending some time with him after the kids are in bed. The bright spot in all this is the fact that we are on track break and there is no homework to do. I would be even more crazy if we had the pressure to do reading, math, projects, spelling words, and writing. We took an hour out of our day today to go swimming at a neighbors house. It wasn't long enough to settle me down and now I am trying to get the kids in bed, which is not as easy as it should be because nobody wants to be first to take a bath, nobody wants to help me pick up the mess in every room and nobody wants to be quiet and settle down! I know this sounds so whiney but I just need to let off a little steam at the moment. And now I can go back to the mayhem just outside my door.
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5 comments:
Oh good luck! That stinks. Everyone is entitled to those days. Hope all is going well. Molly keeps pointing to the chair you sat in when you were here on saturday and says "Amy's chair!" Then she will keep asking "Where's Amy?" She misses you!
I feel ya! Call me, I will take a shift with your kids! Both of mine are in school during the day! Before we moved here, and Cole started a job here, I was stuck in Utah trying to sell our house. Well what was supposed to be a little while turned into 8 months! Alone with the kids while my husband was here. So call me if you need to vent! I totally understand.
I thought Mason was easy to put down to bed. Give them all the rock for me.
you should seriously call me when your hubby is out of town, It makes the time go faster when you have someone to share it with. Trust me..... I know!
You're so smart to time-out and vent. I am totally with you on the single parent thing. I remember thinking that at about 4am a few months ago when Alyssa would not sleep. I started to have a melt down and finally woke up Ben to ask for relief. I don't know how single parents do it!!
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