I have a love hate relationship with spring break. Yes it is great to give the kids and the teachers a nice break...however that means 9 1/2 days for my nonstop with all three kids home. I love my kids to pieces. I love their laughter, I love their hugs and kisses, I love their energy and I especially love their creative way of doing things!! I do not however love 9 1/2 days without a break from them, and them from each other. School gives them time away from each other, a much needed break I might add to keep our home calmer. I need the break too so I can get things done without them under my feet, without having to break up 11 fights in a day, so i can have some uninterrupted time with the baby and maybe take a nap if I need too.
However when they are off for 9 1/2 days there is no break. It was too cold for the park on the days it didn't rain and then when the weather finally got a little nicer, we all got colds and I refused to take the baby out with a runny nose and coughing.I know some moms are unfazed by 9 month old with a cold but I am not so lucky. I see every shopping cart, every kid, every swing at the park as a germ infestation waiting to take a hold on my kids and rather than carry around clorox wipes everywhere I go or chase them around with hand sanitizer nonstop...me I opt to stay in when the baby is not feeling well and her immune system is already fighting off one germ Heaven knows another germ in her means less sleep for me, more crying all around and in 24 to 48 hours I will have the new germ too!!
Maybe if we went on a vacation it would be nicer...HAHAHA vacations are suppose to be fun and relaxing...but unless you are visiting a family member (at their home preferably) what vacations really turn into is WORK. Packing, traveling, setting u a hotel room, trying t get 3 kids to sleep in a strange place. Trying to find food that everyone will eat that isn't going to cause obesity or a heart attack is always WORK too! Then we have 'vacation' by which I mean the kids find something to get into or do that makes me cringe, carrying dirt in buckets up to the walk way on the 3rd floor to sump it out to play with...or making phone calls to china on the hotel phone while I am trying to bath the baby in the itty bitty hotel sink that has 1 minute of hot water so hot it feels like it is burning you, then goes ice cold for 3 hours...more WORK! Then we have to pack it all up...travel some more with 3 sleep deprived kids who no doubt had more McDonalds fries and nuggets than I want to admit too and not enough fruit and veggies...then we get home and I have to unpack, wash everything, put it all away...yeah more WORK!
It is so much easier to just stay home...and relax! And by relax I mean lock myself in the bathroom for at least 1 hour sitting in a hot shower ignoring the knocks at the door, and the cries from the other room...while daddy mumbles curses at me under his breath. Or staying up t late making some new project and then sleeping in till noon one day..just one day...waking up to baby powder all over the bedroom/office because daddy forgot it in there the night before... and was so happy the kids were getting along that he didn't check to see why they were so quiet...yeah no relaxing for this mom!!
Thank the stars that school started back up yesterday, I think I found another gray hair or 200 since the week before!!
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