So, school has started, for 3 of the 4 of us! Elem and Maris have started at the Appletree Christian Learning Center; Gretchen has gone back to Excel Charter Academy. Busy-ness is very much upon us. Fall is here.
However, when I close my eyes, I like to dream. Instead of being a working mom - full time working mom - I am a stay at home mom....My days go something like this:
8:00 a.m. - get up and lounge in PJs and I find the children breakfast. I make pancakes in fun shapes like dinosaurs and dollies.
8:30 a.m. - We read books together, still in our PJs
9:00 a.m. - We have learning time with all the fun preschool activities that I have made. Elem sits nicely at the kids table working on cutting, painting, and drawing. Maris quietly listens to music on her Fisher Price headphones. I lounge on the couch reading a book.
AND THE DAY GOES ON
But then, I wake up again. Hmmm, instead the day looks quite different. The evening really looks like:
5:45 p.m. We pull in the driveway from daycare both kids are crying that they are hungry, sucking their thumbs or pacifiers, clinging to their blankets, wanting 'mommy....' to carry them to the house.
6:00 p.m. Supper is half an hour away from being done. I just stepped on a huge crumb, tripped over three shoes and am having a hard time breathing from wearing pants that are too tight all day.
6:30 p.m. We eat - okay Jeff and I eat. The kids cry about how the dish is too spicy, they don't like beans, and scream out 'how many bites do I have to eat?' Meanwhile pulling and leaning on me, getting my school clothes dirty, as I sit on the broken chair.
UGH.....real life. Dreams are free though, right? SMILE.
