Family life is 1000 different kinds of wonderful but then
there are days that kind of suck too .... or whole weekends even.
I know that someone may read this and think I am being an
ungrateful sod, and to those people I would like to reassure you, I'm really
not ungrateful, I'm just honest.
Because there are some days (or whole weekends) where you
are downright knackered, the kids are turds, the husband is busy doing stuff
that doesn't involve helping you with said turdish kids and well those days suck
... big time.
My boys have beautiful hearts, they really do. Big fat
beautiful and sometimes incredibly lazy and inconsiderate hearts.
Just your typical kids really.
After an exhausting weekend running children around from one sporting
activity to the next, one party to another, grocery shopping, house cleaning,
clothes washing, working on a business proposal and some writing work AND
cancelling my own pre-planned outing on Sunday afternoon just so I could fit it all in - I
had a major shitty on.
I wasn't having a shitty on because of all the running around
or even because of having to cancel the one thing I had planned for myself.
That stuff is kind of to be expected when you are a parent.
No I had a shitty
on because when we got home from all that stuff, two of the kids got into a
punch up over a bag of sour strap lollies, one decided to run away from home and
take his brothers bike with him, I found dirty school uniforms scattered
throughout bedrooms that I had earlier been assured were in the laundry when I put the washing on, and to top it all off - the dog ran dog shit
through the house. The same dog shit that the kids were supposed to have picked up
that morning. The one and ONLY job they were supposed to do that morning before
we headed out for the day.
So I did what any self respecting mother should do - I ran away.
Yep, I packed myself up a plate of goodies, grabbed a vodka and a
book and I took my shitty on to the bathroom, where I sat for an hour and a half
and soaked all the shittiness of the weekend out of my system.
Being a mum is an amazing gift, but it ain't always sunshine
and roses and dog shit free backyards either.
Keeping it real people, just keeping it real.
Do you ever feel the urge to run away?
If so, where do you escape to?