If you are a mom and doubt whether what you do makes a difference in your family life, just decide to catch a cold or a stomach flu or something like that.
You don’t have to go very far to get your choice of germs. Your local playground will do. Or, you can do as I did. Have your child lick the end of the cart at Target and then when she comes down with something, have her cough in your face several times just to make sure that the germs get a chance to take hold in your body.
In my defense for being snarky, my daughter is well past the age of licking Target shopping carts. We’ve long done away with those fabric cart protectors. In fact, she would barely fit in the seat of the cart anyway.
In my daughter’s defense, she was bored and wanted to know what the metal part of the cart tasted like.
This week I am sick, where I don’t want to do much more than lay on the couch groaning and watching romantic BBC movies or the last season of Dance Moms. But for those of us who are moms without our own reality shows, things don’t work that way too much, do they? People need to be driven places. They need to be fed, papers needs to be checked and signed, and that mysterious goo on the carpet needs to be cleaned up (if I were at my best, I would first try to identify it, but being sick really puts your priorities in order).
Still, I can’t keep up with it all right now, and it is amazing how quickly things can fall apart. Yesterday, I realized that my oldest child has been wearing the same pair of pants for three days. Not because he didn’t have any clean clothes (I dragged myself to the basement to do a load), but because they are his favorite pants. The yogurt stain down the front doesn’t mean that they aren’t comfortable. Duh.
There are enough crumbs under the dining room table to fill a sobakawa pillow, and I don’t think anyone has eaten a green vegetable in days.
My youngest child climbed up on my prone body this morning and in his sweetest little voice said. “I hope you feel better.” Aw. Someone cares! Five minutes later he was back. “I want to go to the playground now. Going to the playground will make you feel better.”
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