I think a mother's hour should be twice as long as a non-mother's hour. Doesn't that sound fair? Our job is the hardest job in the world (Say's Oprah) and we don't even get paid for doing it!
We are gardeners, except we grow children instead of flowers. We are cooks, housekeepers and laundromats. We are personal organizers, chauffeurs and referees. We are teachers, healers and body guards. We do not work a 40 hour work week. We do not get a half hour for lunch, sick days and vacation days. Our work week is more like 168 hours, our lunch breaks are when we grab something quick to eat and have to share it with 3 other people. Our sick days consist of us getting sick without any time off, getting our kids sick and having to take care of our sick kids while we are just starting to get over being sick ourselves. Vacation days? What the heck are those?
A mothers hour is never long enough to get the job done. At the end of the day, all the left over work just gets rolled over to the next day. If it could only be more like pre-paid phones, no roll over minutes, you just start from scratch when the month is done. I could live with that! I could also live with 90 minute mothers hours....either that, or maybe an extra set of arms.
The kids all went to bed with stuffy noses, it is going to be a long night of whining and sniffling, hmmmm, ....I think I just changed my mind about the whole mothers hour idea. Sixty minutes with 3 sick kids sounds a lot better to me now, than ninety minutes with 3 sick kids. Though I do still think the extra set of arms would come in very handy tonight!
