{"id":9781,"date":"2009-02-19T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/19\/careful-what-you-wish-for"},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:41:15","slug":"careful-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/19\/careful-what-you-wish-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful What You Wish For"},"content":{"rendered":"

My kids are out of school this week for “Ski Week.” <\/font><\/p>\n

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Yeah. Ski Week. Officially, it’s called Presidents’ Days and Break, but as I listen to my kids fighting again in the other room on this sixth day of the break, I’m thinking it should be called Hell Week.<\/font><\/p>\n

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?        <\/span>?        <\/span>?<\/font><\/p>\n

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What I want to know is, Where the heck was this week when I was in school?<\/em> I gotta think this is a way better gift for a kid than a parent who now has to scramble for some made up holiday break to keep their kids entertained. <\/font><\/p>\n

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So Logan and Whitney, who moan every school morning, “Why do we have to go to school? Why can’t we stay home?” have finally gotten their wish.<\/font><\/p>\n

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And now they’re moaning, “I’m bored. What are we going to do?” <\/font><\/p>\n

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At seven and nine years old, the irony is totally lost on them. It’s not even fun to tease them about it because then they just think I’m being mean.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Here’s my thing: I don’t get Ski Week. It’s business as usual here. Bills to be paid. Groceries to be bought. Deadlines that still need to be met. In fact, I have the added bonus of trying to meet my normal responsibilities, but now with two whining, fighting, disaster making kids underfoot who think I should be dancing to the tune of Let Me Entertain You.<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I’ll tell you what’s entertaining. When one of the kids comes to stand over my shoulder while I’m furiously typing at the computer, trying to get a little work done while they’re distracted for 37.2 seconds with a mind-numbing Disney Channel show. After they don’t take the hint that I’m ignoring their Excuse-Me-I’m-Bored-Here sigh, one will inevitably ask, “When are you going to be done?”<\/font><\/p>\n

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Ah, the naïveté of youth that they can’t smell the deep doo-doo before they are about to step in it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“When am I going to be done? When am I going to be done?” my tirade begins as I swivel around. “You mean when am I going to be done playing waitress, serving you up three meals a day and snacks? When am I going to be done playing maid, cleaning up the messes you’ve left behind? Or drill sergeant for trying to get you to help? When am I going to be done arranging a week of playdates, indoor adventures and outdoor excursions together? When am I going to be done renting movies, making popcorn, making errands more exciting and planning them around your grumpy cycle?”<\/font><\/p>\n

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Slowly the frightened child backs away, only now aware they took one unfortunate step too many. But, I’m not done.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“What do you think Mommy does all day while you’re at school? Do you think I sit around eating bonbons? (My favorite go-to phrase, BTW). Do you think this is Disneyland where everything is just magically perfect? Mommy works! Mommy has work to do! Mommies don’t get vacations!”<\/font><\/p>\n

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As the bottom lip trembles, and tears well-up with youthful disappointment, I cave.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“Okay, as soon as I’m done here we’ll go for a bike ride.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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Someone must have wished for a guilt-ridden push-over for a mother.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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