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Truthful Mommy
http://motherhoodthetruth.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-so-called-leisurely-life.html
I'm flipping through the channels trying to find something to watch on
television, after all, it is the first time I've sat down all day and I
need to decompress. One daughter's in bed and the other one is all ready
to hop in my lap and hold me hostage for a couple hours until she
drifts off into lala land. I happen upon Dr. Phil. Imagine my intrigue
when I hear the topic is a study done by a Dr. John Robinson of the
University of Maryland ( you'll want to remember this name, take
note).His study has found that Mommies have 30-40 hours of leisure time
per week. Holy shit batman, did you all know this? What am I doing
wrong? I mean obviously I am doing something wrong, because at 8 pm
tonight was the first time I had sat down all day...and I'm sick. Then
he went on to explain. Apparently, root canals, being stuck in traffic,
probably the time you spend changing your spat up on and peed and pooped
on clothes, the time you spend asking the same question 30 times of
your 3 year old, the time you spend trying to talk on the phone, make
breakfast, and do laundry all at the same time..that all counts as
leisure time. According to him, we are working more at home than men but
we don't get paid so its considered "leisure" time. Talk about adding
insult to injury!
I don't know about you but my idea of "leisure" is sitting on a beach
somewhere, reading a book with nothing but the sounds of the sea gulls
flying overhead, the smell of the beach in my nose,and a beverage with
an umbrella in my other hand. That's leisure. What I do every day is
definitely not leisure.Working tirelessly from 6 am in the morning until
around 2 am every night of the following day, leaves me with about 4
hours of very interrupted sleep. Is that suppose to be my leisure time?
If it is, I am getting ripped off because I am only getting in 28 hours.
By his definition, the two hours I just sat in the chair trying to argue
my 2 year old to sleep is considered leisure time. I find that amazing
because to me that felt more like jail time!
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