Eileen says that our kids should be kind and look the other way if we go hog wild when they are out of the house and rent a van (or use Margy's) and we all go smoke pot and take off across the country. I see the appeal...
Part of why she said that is that many of us are oldests, or at least some of the more responsible siblings in our family. Sometimes it gets old! Why didn't we go hog wild when we were 20?
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The first time I read this (years ago) almost none applied to me, but now . . .
Okay, you force me to comment!
ReplyDeleteI just spent the morning shopping with 3 children (yes, I know, most people have more, but it is more than any other person I saw out today) and then spending naptime working out a budget without waking the baby who will only sleep if laying in my lap. When did we get so boring and responsible? Ack! The children should be grateful that we hang around as opposed to leaving them with the neighbors, "losing" the cell phone into deep water and catching a slow freighter to Tahiti. Budgeting!?!? that is what old dead tired people do, not us young flowers!
I guess I have given up my glad rags for comfortable shoes, riding the bus as both education and entertainment, and giving little kids lots of hugs and kisses. Really, while they are asleep it sounds like a great deal! Better not to poll while they are awake. For starters I wouldn't be able to hear the questions, and my answers might be more "in the heat of the moment".
/C'est la vie/, but it is /la vie/ that we love!
PS. I couldn't see the attachment on the blog... I would love to, though!
"/C'est la vie/, but it is /la vie/ that we love!"
ReplyDeleteLove that! Gonna use it, hope you don't mind :-)
I just wish I had more time with the kids, especially when I hadn't just gone through a long day or work. And any time I feel too mature - well, I can grab the kids and see how high I can build a tower of blocks before someone knocks it down. Or blow bubbles, or play tag . . . things that non-parent adults are too 'mature' to do. I'll just cram the budget and bill-paying into my lunch break the next day, or do it after the kids go to bed. Now that they are old enough that they go to bed, and actually sleep for more than three hours before they need their parents again.
And I totally hear you about the baby only sleeping in your lap. The girls only slept on the nursing pillow or in a stroller or sling for about seven months. Bjorn would set up a chair with the keyboard and mouse on it, and I would be nursing two drowsy babies while reading parenting articles on the Web - and I think I did some budgeting like that as well.
Bjorn's about to come upstairs and take me to task for not saying my prayers yet so we can go to sleep. Bye :-)