In the movie A League Of Their Own, Tom Hanks memorably exclaims “There’s no crying in baseball”.
Well, in the world of parenting, unfortunately, there are no sick days.
I’m entering day 3 of the worst cough, sore throat, headache, congestion you can imagine. Yesterday I was able to take a sick day at work.
But there was no sick day from parenting. I still had to get the Things dressed, fed, and take them to school. In the afternoon, I still had to do 3 separate art projects in 3 different classrooms as part of Parents Appreciation Week because I committed to it before I got sick. I still had to do a triple bath night, and a Lego project with Thing 3 I had promised him for Friday night because I wasn’t able to be at his Parents Appreciation event because the school scheduled all three at the same time.
Parents Appreciation Week? That’s when the preschool schedules a week’s worth of activities for you with your kids when they’d otherwise be far away at school.
Now today is Saturday and it’s more of the same. But it’s the weekend, you say? Time to get some rest?
In my world, there is another reality which is, There Is No Resting On Weekends.