So Little Time

Pity Party

June

I’m in a mood today. One: because I have to have a root canal.

Two: Because everyone else (meaning Other Moms who either don’t work or have full-time Help) seems to have it easy in the summer.

Let me just vent (this is my blog, after all, and did I mention the impending root canal?)….While other moms have kids at sleepaway camp FOR SIX OR SEVEN WEEKS, I have two in day camp (one’s a counselor, one’s a camper) for six (meaning I’m still the carpool chief!). And because we live in this upscale community where everyone else is on a teen tour or sleepaway camp, my kids have no one around to “hang” with—which means tensions are high and we’re already sick of each other.

School just ended last Friday; camp began this Monday. There’s been no time to “veg” in between. And with all my friends at the beach or the pool or living large at work because they no longer have to rush home to worry about dinner for picky eaters or pick up their kid’s clothes on the floor, everyone else is RELAXED and TAN and wondering why I remain so uptight!!!

Please tell me I’m not the only one struggling to get into summer mode. (I promise after my root canal, I’ll be more fun in tomorrow’s blog!)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am by Jeanne Muchnick.
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3 Responses to “Pity Party”

Steve C. June 27th, 2007 at 11:18 am
I’ll trade you the root canal, with my water and kitchen disaster how’s that?
as for camp cant afford it. we barely afforded the 1 week camping experience for our 2 boy scouts.
Elizabeth June 28th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Heh, I just wrote something similar!
karen June 28th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Hm…when I was a kid we weren’t richie rich but my parents always managed to shove us off to sleep away camp for at least a few weeks. I think it was a girlscout camp somewhere up in the catskills. I’m sure it was worth every penny, lol. There is also a place up in dutchess county called sprout creek farm where kids go for a few weeks and get to work on an actual farm. I don’t know if your kids would be into that but I think that the cost is pretty reasonable. It may be too late for this year, but maybe next year it’s something to think about. http://sproutcreekfarm.org/education/summer/summer.html

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