- I'll get to the gym on a regular basis
- I'll plan nights out
- I'll re-organize the closets
- I'll make last year's photo album
- I'll get back to cooking great dinners
- I'll have a hobby
- I'll read
- I'll join things
- I'll write over-due thank-you notes
- I'll sleep
The 'Year of Amy' is not so much all that I dreamed it would be. The girls are wonderful and life is good, but I don't even seem to have a 'Minute of Amy' these days. Brad is working around the clock and I don't really have a second to breathe. Child care has been a major issue lately, and I just don't seem to have any real help. (Erin is still good, but I ended up firing the other girl I hired -via text message- after she canceled on me last minute for the third time, and I've yet to find anyone else.) I end up attempting to juggle work, kids, and house stuff (all at the very same time) much too often these days.
And there's no reprieve. On the days that Brad is working insane hours, which has been most days lately, I am up with both girls (Brad's already gone), I am here all day (whether there's a baby sitter for a bit or not), I do dinners, I do baths, and I do bed. Somewhere in there I squeeze in a work day. And then I start the housework...
"Me time"- that's just funny.
The moral of this story:
- Brad's job sucks (for all of us)
- I am tired
- I need to hire Alice from the Brady Bunch, or perhaps we should just bring on a sister-wife!? (probably cheaper than Alice)
- I need a vacation
- Being a stay-at-home Mom + full time employee doesn't actually work
- Something's gotta give
- I don't know how single moms do it
- I NEED A VACATION (thank god we do have a couple planned. Now to see if Brad is actually able to get away from work for said vacations...)
- Raising kids without your immediate family around is a very very difficult thing to do!
- I miss Connecticut
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