feedback for "5-Minute Time Out: Jen Singer"
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i love the idea of a mom's holiday... but honestly, i take one every week. i'm a homeschool mom with seven children, i teach them fiddle, piano and Latin, plus a chronological survey of history with logic and worldview studies (on top of the basics, and of course with potty training, nursing etc)...
I would go insane if i did that monday to friday and then spent the weekend doing whatever my husband wants to do on his "time off"... so i started taking time off myself.
Fridays i call "Fun Fabulous Fridays' - whatever we do, i don't feel guilty about it. I'll take everyone to the park all day, with whatever snacks i can find in the fridge and hopefully some water and some bandaids, or i'll pitch my tent in the backyard and let them drag all the blankets out there while i read my book, or if baby is napping, lock my bedroom door and catch up on scrapbooking, or do some sewing i've been wanting to get to...
If i didn't have my secret weapon Fridays, i'd never get to do anything i like... I've got a great husband, but he can't read my mind, and there's not always time to go to "scrapbook land" AND the weight lifting store... so i'd rather get my stuff done and relax on my own special day :) - every single week!
posted by : mamazee73 on 6/20/2008 at 4:06 PM Flag For Abuse
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ohmygod - did you miss the entire point of the super mom thing??? I was about to write something positive like thank you to the author but I've just been stopped in my tracks and bottomed out with mamazee73's statement that she has 7 (I grew up as #5 of 8 so I really know what that looks and feels like) kids and HOME SCHOOLS. Somebody pour me a glass of wine - a BIG one (actually, make it 7). I think the point of the day off means that you actually don't have any kids with you. But I'm still so stunned by what you do every day and realize that you're so engrossed in giving to your family that you don't even realize you're not getting a day ENTIRELY to yourself when you "indulge" in your Fun Fabulous Fridays. I hope, and will send up a special prayer for you, that you will one day get a little bit of "just about you" time. You're not a Super mom - You are a total, unbelievable Wonder-licious mom and now I feel even more incompetent and petulant. I need to go do some affirmations. God, bless us all...
posted by : Lisaloo on 6/20/2008 at 7:15 PM Flag For Abuse
