Just For a Second...

Just for a second, I am going to whine about being a stay at home mom.

It's hard. Really hard. 

Not hard in that I have a headache at the end of the day because I am mentally exhausted from using my brain for exciting, earth-shattering things, but hard in that I have a headache at the end of the day because I banged it against the wall 10 times. 

I banged my head against the wall once for every time I: 

 - changed a diaper 

 - wiped a face

 - did a dish 

 - cleaned the floor 

 - picked up toys

 - put in a load of laundry 

 - folded a piece of laundry 

 - cleaned the floor 

 - picked up toys 

 - made a bottle 

 - made breakfast 

 - cleaned the floor 

 - made a snack 

 - made lunch 

 - cleaned the floor 

 - picked up toys 

 - put a kid down for a nap and breathed a sigh of relief .. right before the other one woke up 

 - made dinner 

 - cleaned the floor

 - picked up toys 

The moral of this story is: 

1) I need to get an area rug for my hardwood floors. They are killing me. 

2) I need to start making my kid pick up her own damn toys. 

Some days are just like this.
Particularly when your husband travels for work and you haven't had a break in two days ...

with one more still to go. 

Some days I miss teaching... a lot. 

But then I make myself think of the days when I wanted to bang my head against my classroom door because being in charge of twenty-some second graders ain't all that easy EITHER! 

So, we take the good with the bad. And most days... are good and usually...  great.
I do all of this for them... and me ... and I don't take it for granted... I will never, ever regret this time. 

And I know that. 

I just need to get a damn area rug. 

And the sun. 

The highlight of my day: bedroom sunlight on my girls (albeit, brief)