The woman who cut my hair yesterday asked if I worked before I had kids. I answered in the affirmative (without moving my head, of course) and went on to describe a few secretarial and administrative positions. I remarked, "nothing glamourous!"
Then I came home. I was actually happy to find that Sno-Bowl, unlike bleach and various other cleansers and toilet bowl cleaners, actually does remove hard-water stains from my toilet bowls! (Sno-Bowl was only 97 cents and actually advertised that it would remove the hard water stains but I thought I was too smart to fall for the hype on the label).
Then I did laundry and found several pairs of soiled underwear, stuck to the bottom of a hamper.
In the afternoon, I picked up the kids and my daughter--who had stayed up too late finishing a book the night before--burst into tears 4 separate times before 4:30pm.
We made it through homework, studying for quizzes, dinner and bedtime. As I sat down to read a children's book last night (to help quiz my daughter, who has been having trouble with reading comprehension quizzes), it occured to me that I was wrong.
I used to wear heels and makeup, drink coffee with adults and no matter how busy my day was, I could usually manage to still squeeze in a game of computer solitaire. My house was fairly neat (we weren't home a lot and we did not have much stuff) and I could go several DAYS without loading my washing machine. Ah, the glamorous life!
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I was going to insert a link up there for "Sno-bol" from Amazon.com but felt I should add a warning here! When you pull up the product, it mentions a "high acid level" and adds that it "kills Gems!" (Take off that jewelry before scrubbing the pot!!!) ;)
2 comments:
Very true...glamourous life is different for all people. I wouldn't want the glamourous life of others. Sure, being a mom isn't very glamourous from the outside, but when else can you color, read, and play and get so much out of it! :) Forget the cleaning, cooking, nagging, and all the other unfun things that are also part of the job description. Just think, you are excited about Sno-Bowl right now, in a few weeks you will be so excited diapers and spit up :)
I'll have to check into that. We have hard lime deposits on everything. Even my windows and windshield from the sprinkler. I've tried everything on it and besides using a pumice stone - there is no getting rid of it.
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