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Monday, 06 August 2007 00:00

"Hi.  Hi.  Welcome to My Gym, here we are, let's have some fun. Welcome to My Gym."

 

So, I am beginning to plan out my Fall schedule for the kids. I am humming all the ridiculous songs that I am permanently marked with, from the 5 years of pointless mommy-and-me classes. I am looking at all of the brochures, My Gym, Gymboree, Kindermusik, ballet, gymnastics, the art center, and so on. I am sitting before my HUGE ugly mom calendar - a different pen color for each one of my three kids. Jay - blue (his room is blue), Lola - pink (her room is pink), and Fifi - green (yes, her room is green). Jay - a proud 5, Lola - 3 (going on 16), and Fifi - a very sweet 5 months.



I am overwhelmed.



I think I will save this for another day.



Yesterday, Sunday, my Jay before bedtime asked me "Mom, why didn't we do anything today?" I exhaustively looked into his very sweet blue eyes and replied, "Jay - what do you mean we didn't do ANYTHING? We rushed out of bed this morning to have a cowboy campfire breakfast with our closest friends, rushed to 12:00 mass, ate lunch, made the 2pm movie, came home to prepare a 5pm dinner with Daddy's best friend, finally took Fifi out of her car seat, played with your new birthday toys, and here we are. We did SO much, look how wibbly wobbly Mama is right now from all of the day's activities?"



I am so overstimulating them with activities, I just know it - I think tomorrow we will just hang around the house with nothing to do and see how it goes. On second thought, I think I will invite some friends over to crash our play day.  Or just start a blog about it all.

 

Welcome to my blog.

 

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# Karen Blados 2009-11-26 06:17
Hello from another NE Ohio SAHM!

I've been lurking and started to comment a number of times, but seem to always get interrupted. The kids and hubster are still in bed (darn it, because I'm ready to leave for Thanksgiving in Dayton and I want to make sure we're there before dinner) and I decided I'm finally going to comment.

I have a boy(7) and girl(5) that I've been home with since the girl was born. I wish I'd found your blog earlier because I had a tough time adjusting to SAHMship.

The other moms (I call them Stepfords) I met told me how great being a SAHM is, how their children are wonderful and their husband is just perfect and they're so fulfilled.

They didn't tell me it's really just one endless circle of making and cleaning up messes. Don't get me wrong -- I love my kids and my husband and I'm very thankful that we're able to swing my being home with the kids.

But at least you're honest -- it's not all fun and games and sometimes it's downright boring (OMG, did I just type that?). Thanks for your voice of reason. I think you're doing a fantastic job and I hope to continue reading your blog for years to come.

BTW, my official title is Entertainment Director -- it's what will be on my grave instead of Mom because I hear "what are we going to do today" every single stinking day. ;-)
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