What…Christmas Break?

I am a bad mother.  I am sure of it.  I adore my kids but today the letter from Sophia’s pre-school came and it revealed a fatal flaw that makes it worse than daycare or an au pair or a nanny.  Pre-school is on the local school system calendar and they take a break from December 18 through January 2.  Daycares take only 2 days off.  This 2 weeks seems like a very long time.  And it was not just Christmas break either.  They take spring break and teacher work days and everything.  To top it off, of course, summers are off.  I swear, after memories of this summer with no help, I broke into a sweat.

So I may call on other options.  I may find a daycare that will do half days and work around holidays and through the summer.  I want some time to type!   I cannot type with Sophia here.  I accidentally showed her clips of Elmo on the Sesame Street website and now she wants to be on the computer all the time.  Since the computer is my job, I need some alone time.  I take my hat off to all the moms who spend all of their time with their beautiful kids.  My daughter is a social butterfly who would much rather be with 20 2 year olds than with me, watching me nurse, for hours every day.  I get where she is coming from.  Often times I reminisce about when I worked at a bank with lots of grown ups to talk to or evenings with bunch of gals my age.  I get it!

I will find a happy play place for Sophia to spend her mornings away from mommy and with tons of friends.  I will also find a place that can figure out how to make Miles eat all this milk that I pump from a bottle so we can hire a babysitter and have a night out. 

Bad mom….I hope not.  I love them to death…I just want a little me time!

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