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Family Time

Don’t we all have exquisite visions of  family time?   Oh, we will play and laugh and run and jump together!!!  Encouraging one another and helping too!  Blah blah-bitty blah…

Ugh.  It’s been a long, hot day.  I hope those of you who read here also keep up with me on facebook so that you know I’m not always griping. 

As I was cleaning up the dishes from supper, my husband strapped on his roller blades and motivated the kids to go outside and ride their bikes with him.  I was looking forward to some alone time (more than 10 minutes, please?).  I opened a bottle of wine and poured a glass.  Then my two year old, no doubt sent by my husband, came running up the steps yelling, “Mommy, I need shorts!  I need shoes!  I need you!  Can you come outside with me?”  So…I helped him with his shorts, and looked with no luck for his shoes.  I sent him back out, barefoot, with the message for his dad, that I would come out if I could sit in a chair and just rest for a while as they played.  So, I took my glass and headed outside…where there was not a chair to be found.  I sat on the steps and attempted to relax, but every mosquito in Ohio landed on my legs, I began to sweat, and both of my kids started yelling for me to help them…as my husband rolled off jolly-like down the sidewalk without a care in the world.  It was then that I decided I did not want to be outside in the 99 degrees and 100% humidity swatting at gnats and mosquitoes, babysitting the dog and helping my kids get on and off their bikes.  This was not my idea, not my plan, not my suggestion, nor my invitation to the kids to come and play with me.

And…I must be an awful mother and wife, because I let them all know this and went inside with the dog and my glass of wine.

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