Sunday, October 13, 2013

Mom

When I was getting ready to go back to work after being home for many years, some man told me that I would see how I really did nothing all those years I stayed home.  This is my 3rd year working, and I still think I did a lot when I stayed home.  It's the little things you don't think about.  For example, my washer was probably 20 years old when I bought my house.  It was good to put off buying a new one  for a year or two, but the time had come to replace it.  Of course they don't deliver on a weekend.  Or after 5.  They won't even tell you until that morning what the 2 hour window is when they might show up.  I use to be the person who waited for the repair man.  Was it the most mentally challenging thing I ever did? No, but somebody had to do it.

Somebody still has to do it.  It just can't be me.  I guess some people have to pay a concierge service to do it.  Or beg a stay at home mom that they have not offended by insinuating that they don't have anything else to do (which I never remember being the case when I was home.)  I am lucky enough that my mom is doing it for me.  

Mom, thanks for making sure I'm covered.

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