Lo and behold she is out of the sweats, washed off the week old grime on her body, brushed through the knotted waves of locks with pieces of last nights supper crusted so ever tightly with the other strands.
What a juggle! Is this insanity? But somehow we do it. Somehow through all the obstacles we forge ahead and get to work whether at home, school, or office. Some of us work at home moms even balance a laundry basket as we fax or have two kiddos hanging on your legs as you press send to a rather urgent email or trying to take a call while kids our home sick-near impossible!! They have been peaceful every second until you press that green button to take the call and its like someone sat on the remote's volume button. It gets louder & louder & louder & you lock yourself in your bathroom & its gets louder with the knocking & now you have an echo when you are speaking & its still loud so you decide to turn the vent fan on which makes them question are you outside & finally you are done and so happened the volume magically mutes as you press "end call" lol!
I've been there with the office moms as we are in a major conference call & the school is calling you right in front of you on your cell in the part when you are suppose to speak- Do you interrupt now? Do you ask to hold? Do you mute & take the call - praying no one would know! I've done each of them. Or the minute you drop off at daycare, you get a call to pick them up he will need stitches. Last week I dropped the 3 younger ones off at daycare then took the older one to get his cast on then dropped the older one off at school and just as I walk into home and log into my computer the daycare calls Easton has a fever they need to be picked up & off to urgent care which turned out to be another ear infection, off to cvs to get the antibiotic, and so on.
Also been there with the stay at home mamas-still am part-time, its really never ending on to the next to the next to the next & you wish you had a larger sink and that you did dishes at the last meal. Or the blessed child that just dumped your folded clothes to jump it in like a leaf pile. Bless their little hearts how cute (UGH)!!! lol!!! Joy plus frustration plus cuteness plus messes whoa...this is probably my most difficult since timeouts just to go to the bathroom don't work so everyone joins you then you wish you had a bigger bathroom & please don't unravel the toilet paper roll & wait I don't want a bigger bathroom cause I cant reach you right now to stop the shenanigans!
Torn....Either way -wow !!! this is no easy task and is a work/life/parent balance is a daily struggle. What keeps us going? Then I think how we were created so differently that no man would be able to comprehend the complexity of our thoughts as we multitask not only visibly but mentally. We even have a whole list of drafts stored up in which we edit, save and pull out later. For example the grocery list or house projects, etc. My mind is like a google search engine - just type in a subject & millions of thoughts, experiences, feelings come up based on that subject. My hubby often says you just listed off everything I have ever done wrong- not really eek - can we rewind??... it's just that that subject got typed into my mind's search engine in that moment and ~blah~ I apologize for throwing up all those thoughts at you. Its not what you asked for but my programming has some bugs/gliches that I'm constantly working on with all the other roles so don't mind me I will put a note for my IT person to fix that probably 2020 since we are so behind and understaffed because we are ultimately a one women show doing 100 different things/roles/favors/lists/volunteer/business/maidservices+roomservice/chaperone/referee/chauffeur/chef/executive assistant/handyman, the list goes on....
That's alot to handle. We are a lot to handle for ourselves let alone the daily tasks of our complex roles in life. Cheers to all moms since we work with great care & service that often goes VERY UNNOTICED but forge ahead it's worth it to you & your kids even if we don't get any recognition. We got each other & we can be so damn proud of our little ones knowing we did the best we could & ran in overtime to ensure they always had the best of us & their best in mind! ROCK ON my lady friends with our complex selves; let's wear it well ;)
