When you are so cold and you reach down to pull up the blankets and accidentally whack yourself in the face.
And when your kids have been back at school for 2 days after Winter break and there's a snow day and over a foot of snow expected.
And you're kind of over the bonding with the kids thing.
And you're even done with Law and Order.
And people on Facebook are posting their school cancellations just in case someone from their town didn't get the same phone call, tweet, email, notification that they did.
And I'm thinking during a bombardageddon or whatever they're calling this blizzard that it may be more useful to post the towns that DO have school rather than repeating the obvious.
And do they really need to tell us the malls are closed? Is there an urgent need for someone to get into the car with their kids and run to Forever21?
And when, for the 18th year, you ask your husband why in the hell you live in New England when you both hate Winter? And you figure out in your head how many more years it can be til you move somewhere warm for the winter and then come back to your Maine house (that you will some day own) in the summer.
You know.
When I win the lottery.
And my kids go to college.
Which seems like it will never happen because as we speak they are wrestling on a couch with one yelling "STOP" 57 times and the other continuing to annoy his brother while simultaneously managing to complain they are bored and there's nothing to eat.
The thought that they would be able to figure out how to pass time and find something to eat on their own would clearly, not only impress any admissions office, but should really be the topic of their essay.
Signed,
mean mother who is making their child clean the room on a snow day.
And when your kids have been back at school for 2 days after Winter break and there's a snow day and over a foot of snow expected.
And you're kind of over the bonding with the kids thing.
And you're even done with Law and Order.
And people on Facebook are posting their school cancellations just in case someone from their town didn't get the same phone call, tweet, email, notification that they did.
And I'm thinking during a bombardageddon or whatever they're calling this blizzard that it may be more useful to post the towns that DO have school rather than repeating the obvious.
And do they really need to tell us the malls are closed? Is there an urgent need for someone to get into the car with their kids and run to Forever21?
And when, for the 18th year, you ask your husband why in the hell you live in New England when you both hate Winter? And you figure out in your head how many more years it can be til you move somewhere warm for the winter and then come back to your Maine house (that you will some day own) in the summer.
You know.
When I win the lottery.
And my kids go to college.
Which seems like it will never happen because as we speak they are wrestling on a couch with one yelling "STOP" 57 times and the other continuing to annoy his brother while simultaneously managing to complain they are bored and there's nothing to eat.
The thought that they would be able to figure out how to pass time and find something to eat on their own would clearly, not only impress any admissions office, but should really be the topic of their essay.
Signed,
mean mother who is making their child clean the room on a snow day.
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