As a new stay at home mom, I frequently struggle with whether I\u2019m doing too much\u2026or not enough…for my family.<\/p>\n
For example, take this morning: I was going to get up early and make\u00a0homemade cranberry orange muffins and yogurt\/fruit smoothies for the kids.\u00a0 Three too many snooze buttons later and breakfast was cold cinnamon raisin bagels with glasses of o.j.<\/p>\n
Not enough?<\/p>\n
Then, after my son went up to get dressed and my daughter had a second bagel, I proceeded to pack snacks for the kids.\u00a0 Those orange-y crackers with faux fromage (read cheese) inside and a fruit roll-up.\u00a0 Well \u2013 actually I packed that for my daughter but my son doesn’t like those crackers so I packed him those weird little breadsticks and the orange-y dipping-sauce-that’s-supposed-to-be-cheese and comes\u00a0in little individual packages.\u00a0 And a fruit roll-up.<\/p>\n
Not enough?<\/p>\n
After having been up in his room for a full ten minutes, my son then comes back down with his pajama pants tied around his waist (Not on.\u00a0 Tied.) complaining the whole time that he has no clean underwear in his drawer.\u00a0 So let me get this straight.\u00a0 I collect all the dirty laundry.\u00a0 Sort it.\u00a0 Wash it.\u00a0 Dry it.\u00a0 FOLD it.\u00a0 And leave it to sit\u00a0in nice, neat piles on the counter in the laundry room waiting for someone to just simply put it away, but no one ever does.\u00a0 And it\u2019s STILL not enough?!<\/p>\n
As a side note \u2013 my son totally could have walked through the dining room to get his clean underwear out of the laundry room without anyone having been any the wiser.\u00a0 I think he just walked through the kitchen for fun\u00a0 (as a side note to the side note – he only got one pair of underwear instead of bringing up the whole pile so we\u2019ll have a reprise of this scene tomorrow, guaranteed)\u00a0 and to show off what he described as \u201csomething Tarzan would wear.\u201d\u00a0 And it was, except for the logos of pro football teams all over the little helmets on the pant legs tied in a knot and hanging down his back.\u00a0 Which didn\u2019t quite<\/em> cover his bongo-drums.\u00a0 This of course was all designed to elicit an eckkkkghh noise from his sister.\u00a0 (you know eckkkkghh.\u00a0 It’s the noise you might make while hocking a loogie.\u00a0 Except you\u2019re ten and a girl and you need to put all the loathing you feel into it.)<\/p>\n Just a word-to-the-wise at this point: do not watch cooking shows while running on the treadmill after everyone leaves the house for the day.\u00a0 I will now be making chicken fricassee for dinner.\u00a0 But first I have to buy the chicken\u2026and all the fricassee fixin\u2019s.\u00a0 And don\u2019t EVER watch any show where Martha Stewart is doing the cooking.\u00a0 It will make you want to commit full-on mayhem.\u00a0 Martha and I have a love\/hate thing going.\u00a0 But she doesn’t know it.\u00a0 And it’s mostly hate on my part.\u00a0 I mean, come on!\u00a0 Who can really<\/em> be like that?!\u00a0 Says Martha to Matt Lauer, \u201cNo, Matt, it\u2019s pronounced Bow-kay Gar-neeee\u201d. \u00a0Says me to Martha \u201ceckkkkghh!!!\u00a0 I will cage fight you now, Martha!\u201d<\/p>\n But wait!\u00a0 Speaking of committing…I just remembered that I\u2019ve committed to attending a friend\u2019s clothing party starting at 5 tonight (drinky-poos to be had so don’t want to miss it!).\u00a0 So the fam won\u2019t be getting frickin\u2019 Fricassee after all.\u00a0 Franks and beans it is!<\/p>\n Too much??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a new stay at home mom, I frequently struggle with whether I\u2019m doing too much\u2026or not enough…for my family. For example, take this morning: I was going to get up early and make\u00a0homemade cranberry orange muffins and yogurt\/fruit smoothies for the kids.\u00a0 Three too many snooze buttons later and breakfast was cold cinnamon raisin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}