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I have discovered the breaking point. The point at which I fail. Loudly.
How in the mother-effing hell do single, full-time working parents keep up with the homework and studying of two children - one of which is ADHD and anxiety-riddled?
There is not enough time in the day to get home, fix dinner, get 2 kids-worth of homework done, take showers and then sit to study for tests on Mesopotamian culture and ratio/proportion math stuffs without losing your confidence as a parent and human.
Today I have heard exactly two songs:
1. Werewolf in London
2. Bad Moon Rising
I’m unsure what to do with this information.
I flew out on the red eye from LAX last night. I am stuck in Philadelphia. I have had the same clothes and makeup on for 28 hours now.
I am watching The Vampire Diaries on Netflix in my hotel room while drinking french press and eating Toblerone and rosemary marcona almonds from a gift bag for breakfast.
My life is weird.
Things I have done today:
- Take child to pediatrician due to scary health thingy that turned out to be nothing (thankfully)
- Run by seamstress to pick up item with repaired zipper (An old, ripped up sweatshirt of my dad’s that he cherishes. I could buy two new ones for what it cost me to repair the zipper.)
- Stop at crazy general store place to have house keys made for my children and mother (oh, and drawer organizers for bathroom because the toothpaste exploded and my 8 y/o decided she doesn’t want her toothbrush to be close to anyone else’s)
- Cash Christmas checks at bank (checks from my former mother-in-law made out to my kids that they want to spend at the mall this weekend)
- Swing by Invisible Fence to pick up new collar batteries (because I found one of my dogs across the street peeing on the neighbor’s mailbox)
- Drop prescription off at pharmacy (for sinus infection discovered at pediatrician visit)
- Swing by house to tell older child that smaller child and I are still alive and to pick up tax paperwork
- Complete 2011 taxes!!!
- Pick up prescription
- Run home to fix lunch and discover sink/dishwasher pipes are clogged and sink is filled with water and food from the disposal from two days ago
- Fix sink with bathroom plunger (now whole kitchen must be doused in gasoline and burned to the ground as I’ll never be able to eat in there again)
Things I have NOT done today:
- Showered
- Eaten
- Fed my children