Mother’s Day Musings
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Do you ever have days where you just don’t know where to begin? Ok, that’s a stupid question. I find it hard to believe that I’m the only one in this great, big world whose eyes flutter open in the morning and thinks, Crap, I have too many things to do!! Then pulls the blanket back over my head and buries my face in the pillow.
Today is Mother’s Day. I set my alarm for 7:30 am. There used to be a time when I would wake up whenever I just woke up on a Sunday, but that doesn’t happen anymore. I have too much to do and Saturday and Sunday are the only days in the week where I have the WHOLE day to fill up with stuff that needs to be done. Of course, that is after I schedule baseball games and practice half the year and hockey games the other half, house cleaning, church, laundry and blah, blah, blah.
Ok, back in the present. The alarm went off and I quickly shut it off so that it didn’t wake up the kids. After all, mornings are the only time when I don’t have to answer a million questions about nothing from my kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love that my two boys still want to talk to me, especially my 14 year old. But, do I really have to listen to him tell me for the hundredth time that they crashed 300 or more Dodge Challengers filming The Dukes of Hazzard? Or, have him ask me some obscure question which I don’t have the answer to or even if I did would argue with whatever I said anyway…all this at 10 pm when all I really want to do is go to sleep, so that I can wake up at 5 am and start all over again?
Oh, yeah, back to the point. I got up and started reading. I have to finish the First Place entries in the PSWA writing contest in the next 2 weeks so I can award Grand Prize. I love doing it. I just wish I had a week off without anything else to do (like work, take care of kids, eat, etc) so I could just read. Wouldn’t that be rad?
I read for an hour, got a Happy Mother’s Day call from my long-time friend Aaron who I think I’m kind of dating (don’t ask) and then dragged myself out of bed. After all, I still need to do my Sunday walk to Dari-Mart to get coffee and a Eugene Register-Guard. I keep hoping I will sit down and read the paper cover to cover and get a million ideas for magazine articles I can write. Each week, I do read the front page, usually, and the City/Region so I know what’s going on in my neck of the woods. Did you know we have a new counterculture exhibit honoring Eugene’s Hippie past? About time…
Now, I’m typing this to avoid going to the gym (which I actually like to do—most days) and waiting for my new tie-dyed jeans to finish washing (Aaron and I made them at the UO street fair yesterday). I also need to clean the living room, get the laundry off my bedroom floor, do the dishes and find a CD I borrowed from a friend like 6 months ago. Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s out there and also to those surrogate mother’s that do all the work of a mother. Have a great day. Take care of yourselves. Hopefully, I will type more on this blog now that I found it’s a wonderful side-track from all the things I have to do.
