Thursday, May 7, 2009

Happy Un-Mother's Day


What are you going to do this Mother's Day? If like me you are a mother to small children, I bet I can guess what you secretly want but don't want to ask for.

Since having kids, every day of the year we are mothers. We work, cook, clean, do laundry. We somehow manage to always remember snack day, hat day, blue shirt day, sports team day, and beach party day. We switch hats between mom, chef, coach, referee, psychologist, teacher, disciplinarian, hider, seeker, tagger, taggee, and even Princess Leia once in a while. We truly love our kids and our husbands. Ok, well most of the time we do.

What we really want for Mother's Day is to have an Un-Mother's Day. One day where we can pretend we are carefree, where we can shirk all those responsibilities if only for few hours.

So husbands, here is what you need to do: take the kids out of the house for the entire day or better yet, send us away for the day to a spa or shopping or out to dinner with friends or other moms.

We will love you for it. And you may even find the favor returned come Father's, I mean Un-Father's Day.

1 comment:

Kat Connelly said...

YES!!! My ex has the kids every weekend and he actually asked if I wanted them back early on
Sunday for Mother's Day. I quickly thought of some excuse and said thanks, but NO thanks!!! : D And I only have them during the week.