Snootyvixen

While I was in the shower, I thought of many more gripes than I’ll probably write here.  But it all started with the video below. If you haven’t watched it yet, then watch it and come back. I’ll hold your place Off you go now!

So, I had posted this particular video on my Facebook page, mainly because I think that Ciel has a natural affinity for the camera. I apologized, when I posted, for my untidy house and shouldn’t have been too surprised when someone commented that I needed to crack the whip and get the girls to tidy up after themselves.

Then I got to thinking. I think that video was taken on a Saturday morning. Now, I don’t know about anyone else, but when I get home from work, I’m not always “home from work” – I belong to the neighborhood association (which means meetings), I belong to Central Illinois Men Against Domestic Abuse (which means meetings, including subcommittee meetings) and I’m on the Board of Heartland Head Start (which means meetings) – we go to the library on Monday nights. The girls have chess club on Thursday nights and Girl Scouts on Friday nights.

So, I offer NO apology if you look at my house on a Saturday morning and see crap all over the floor.

As a single mom with a full time job and community commitments, I’m on the go from 5am until 11pm most days, and on Saturdays – if there is no chess tournament – and Sundays, I like to sleep in until around 9am. Selfish? maybe. But it saves my sanity.

If my house is untidy. I am the one who has to live in it. If you don’t like it, you are under no pressure to visit. We are clean. We are just untidy.

That brings me to the second part of my gripe, and you’ll soon see that it’s just a wallow through the mire of self-pity. I’m sick. I can’t help that. I just took two days off work because I really couldn’t make it in. Oh, and I didn’t want to give strep throat to my coworkers. Do those of you who live in two-parent households ever stop to think what happens when a  single parent gets sick? Sure, you can send the kids to school and be sick while they are there, but while they are home you have no business being sick!  You have to get your children up for school, get them in the shower, make sure they’re dressed, get their breakfasts, pack their lunches, make sure their hair is brushed and they have everything they need for school, then get them off to school.  When school is over, do it all in reverse … make sure homework is done, make dinner, wash dishes, wash lunch boxes, get kids in pajamas, read for half an hour, get teeth brushed, get kids in bed and kissed goodnight. Oh wait, you need to do laundry!

Now, I love my kids to death, and will not make them suffer because I’m sick – I just wonder when I have time to be sick. To be honest, I slept all day today and I still feel like crap.

I’m done complaining for now. Just ignore me and I’ll go away