Happy Monday. Or … Is it?
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- October
- 30
I don’t know about you but by 8:30 a.m. (the time I often get to my desk), I feel I’ve already lived half my day. That’s because I’ve been up since 6, showered, dressed, made my kids’ lunches (after yelling up the stairs to my husband where the heck did he put the bread for the girls’ sandwiches?), rushed out to the food store (since he used the last of the bread last night and neglected to tell me), rushed back home in time to help my younger one straighten her hair, find her pink pants, and slab some mustard on fresh bread…whisk them out the door (thankfully my husband drives carpool in the morning)….then FINALLY put my makeup on. All before my first cup of coffee! At least amidst the mayhem, I remembered to pack my own lunch: a lovely Weight Watchers pizza which I’ll eat at my desk….all for the Great Balancing Act know as “Being a Working Momâ€? who’s “Trying to Do It All.â€? The fact that I get to work early (despite my frazzled morning rush), and will eat at my desk today means it’s easier (read; less guilt involved) leaving by 4:30 so I can then get dinner on the table (ok…pick up a slice) for my daughter, Sydney, and most likely a Cosi sandwich for my older one, Corey. Syd has Hebrew School tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. So the rushing and the carpool never ends……At least tonight I know I’ll have bread for tomorrow morning.
Let me know if you, too, have crazed mornings like I do…and email me some tips (and no, making their sandwiches the night before doesn’t work cause the girls say they taste too mushy)
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I think you need a Mr. Mom on this website!
Sometimes women think they are the only ones who go through hell why taking care of the kids and trying to make a living!!!!!!
:)
I agree with Brad. Statistically, more husbands are involved with the upbringing with the children – and spend time with the children – then ever before. Traditionally, woman stayed home. So what we have here is men crossing the line to be more participatory in the home life and woman working more. Yet, what it comes back to inevitably, is not a partnership (what marriage is legally termed as)but a exhausting search in women’s grasp for reality.