Sick Days for Moms!

I have not written a blog in almost two weeks because my family, like every other I know, has been hit with fall illness. Not the flu, thank goodness, but enough to keep us all feeling less than 100%. Kids were coughing, sneezing, and not sleeping. Hubby has a sore throat and cough and I have spent the last week feeling like my head as been packed with cotton. As a mom we all know that we give up a lot to raise our kids. Your life no longer belongs entirely to you and I am more than o.k. with that. I just wish that I could take a sick day once in a while.

It’s not that my children don’t care that I’m sick (or maybe they really don’t and we’ll have to deal with that later in therapy) it’s that they are young children and are completely and totally self-absorbed. The two-year-old only thinks about her blanket, chocolate milk, and what Dora and Diego are up to today. The eight-year-old is rapidly approaching an age where showing feelings for her mother is SO uncool. What I want to do more than anything is curl up with a cup of tea, maybe a good book or a movie, take a nap if I feel like it. What I have to do is pick the kids up from school, finish pulling together Halloween costumes, make Halloween cupcakes, and maybe clean up the house a little bit since my husband has been out of town and comes home today.

I tell myself all of the time that the day is coming when the kids will be grown up and out of the house and my husband and I will be back to just being a couple. Secretly I don’t long for those days. Shhh, don’t tell anyone. I’ll suffer coughing fits during story time; sniffles while helping with homework, and not feeling the best while my kids still demand the world from me. That way I know that they still need me and that I’m still an important part of their world. I tell myself that they are kids and that someday (if we raise them right) that they will do for their children what we do for them, regardless of how they feel. I still wouldn’t mind that one sick day every once in a while though. A paid sick day would be even better!