Showing posts with label mom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mom. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Ummm... Happy Birthday?

This is the text I get from the birthday girl yesterday: "Hey kids when you go to make your mom breakfast how about putting cereal in her favorite bowl, cause she is going to have to clean up after anyway. Cereal is easy. Egg, orange julius and toast is not.

I laughed,I called we talked. Her birthday wasn't really that funny as she was making dinner before all star practice. Moms don't catch a break.

My break has been filled with not wanting to shower or fix my hair, calling a rats nest unbrushed hair in a pony an "up do",  hoping the breakfast/lunch in the park keeps my kids fed, reading too much, not wanting to get out of bed, not wanting to stay in bed, wiping day old mascara from under my eyes and calling it eyeliner and wondering how 3 not fully grown kids make such a big mess and why NO ONE will flush.

What would I do if I stayed home all the time? I am sick of my self already and it is only week 3

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