May 3, 2018

So as a mom I’m 100% sure that whether you are a stay at home mom or working mom you have not been sitting around all day with nothing to do, all by yourself, enjoying the peace and quiet. If so please let me know how that happened!

So far today this is how my day has gone….I started out by getting my son up and ready for school. He followed me to the bathroom to read me his word list while I was getting ready for the day. I then got him ready and out to catch the bus for school. Once he was on the bus I came back in to get my things ready to go to work. The dog followed me back and forth across the house until I went to feed her. I head out the door and the dog is following me again as I walk to the car.

I finally get to work and ready to start in on my day. I actually shut and locked my door so I wouldn’t be disturbed but someone had followed me to my office. It’s ok, I know sometimes people just need someone to talk to and I ended up being that person today. I continue on with my day and need to go to the other building to pick up my mail, so I do. As I’m leaving and trying to make a quick trip without being noticed back to my office, I look back and I’m being followed by another person wanting to talk about work.

I work for a couple more hours at which time I then have to leave to take snacks to the school, a PTO mom job. Then to lunch bunch with my son, which is a once a month lunch with your kid at school, which you feel obligated to go to as to not disappoint your child or have them sitting there alone while everyone else’s parents are there. Then back to work with my son in tow. I try to finish up another hours worth of work in the blazing sun and wind while he plays outside on the playground equipment. (All of which I am extremely grateful for. Not many jobs that are this flexible) If anyone has been following me during this time of my day I was too busy to notice. We then head home where the real work begins.

We get home and my husband is not due home for another hour so I get my son a snack, get him sent off to play, grab something to drink, turn on a home remodeling show, sit down on the couch and think ok…..I’m going to sit for 1/2 hour…..NOPE….nice thought though. First the dog is staring at me and wants out, follows me to the door. I sit back down and literally 5 minutes later my husband walks in the door. So that means his work phone starts ringing non stop. I can’t hear the TV and this is not relaxing so I give up. The dog wants back in anyways.

I go to start laundry, my son follows me, I need to see his Lego creation. I head to the bathroom, because I forgot that I needed to pee like 3 hours ago! I just get in there and here comes footsteps, I was followed again! My son wants to talk now and as he points out he can’t see me so he so he is actually giving me privacy. I head to the kitchen and he follows, he’s still hungry.

I decide to try to sit down and log onto my computer to try to get a little more work done. I get started and 10 minutes into working a mouse runs across the floor! Seriously! My husband is on work phone calls, the TV is on mute and now on a very depressing documentary on North Korea, my son needs to show me how he is learning to snap his fingers and the mouse has now been seen from the corner of my eye run across the kitchen 3 times. I give up! I shut my computer down, head to the store to buy some mouse traps, because of course there aren’t any left here. I proceed slowly back home so I can drink my energy drink and eat some candy that I bought myself at the store in peace. I’ll feel guilty later about that while I’m doing my crunches.

My husband follows me to the kitchen so he can get the mouse traps set. I start some more laundry and get dinner started. While I am cooking dinner the dog is now following my every move because her dinner is late and then get this, and this is no joke, the goldfish is swimming back and forth following my every move until I finally go feed it.

Everyone has been fed,the husband, kid, dog, fish and tortoise (the only one who can’t actually follow me). Bath water is run, kid is clean and ready for bed. Now I can go do dishes and swap laundry, just what I wanted to do.  I’m going to go sit down, finally, as the dog follows me to the couch. I am thankful to have these followers but could use a moment of peace to maybe just use the bathroom alone once a day or zone on the TV for a little while with a show that doesn’t involve politics or cartoons. I guess I wouldn’t know what to do if no one followed me though. Enjoy your followers while you can, I’m sure it would be lonely without them.