…don’t exist in the life of a SAHM, plain and simple. I was seriously ticked when my husband came home and announced that his company was now giving them 3 sick days per calendar year. Retraction: I was jealous! Here is the thing: as soon as you decide it’s a good idea to push a being out of your vagina or suffer through an insanely tedious adoption process and then subsequently commit to a 24 hr/day routine of diapers and sippy cups for the foreseeable future, you can kiss any thoughts of getting sick goodbye. It’s a luxury and don’t let anyone tell you differently. Even if you are so flu-ridden that your spouse HAS to take a day off work, you are still “on”. Let’s be honest, what mother, however sick, is going to ignore her child’s desperate screams for “Mommy!”? And who else in the world knows what the very exact post-lunchtime/pre-naptime sequence of events is (read: toddler throws ginormous temper tantrum if even one thing is “off-kilter”)? Regardless of whether or not someone else is on duty, you’d better believe that your bedroom door is getting knocked on (screw that, just barged in through). And when no else can be there–lucky Mommy. No matter if you can’t breathe through your nose or walk upright without puking, it’s all you, Mom. So yeah, when my husband gets a PAID pass to curl up in bed when he’s “feeling under the weather”, it’s very possible I may be ruminating on some seriously unfair covetous thoughts…
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