I’m throwing out my “keeping the bottle half full” rule and replacing it with a tall glass of Pinot Honesty.
Truth be told…
Tonight is annoying. Tonight I am cranky. Tonight I am NOT a happy camper. And tonight I have no legitimate reason why. So I called in the big guns to deal with my medical semi-emergency.
Cue my girl, Doc McStuffins.
The Doc is In!!
Time for my check-up! She’s gonna check my ears, check my eyes and find out how much I’ve grown. Sure enough, Doc found some symptoms: irritability, worried husband who thinks he did something wrong, fatigue, and general urge to run away by myself to Target even if for just 30 minutes.
Doc thought about it and then realized the diagnosis: A General case of Sick-of-being-an-adult-itis. Yikes! This is one for the Big Book of Boo Boos.
According to Doc, Moms occasionally feel burned out after day in and day out of busy schedules, never-ending to do lists, a house that doesn’t clean itself and constant meal planning, baby bag packing, dishwasher emptying, and general need for making decisions.
Luckily it’s very curable. The treatment includes: sweat pants, a two-hour liquid diet of Riesling, an early bedtime and a round of take-out the next day to avoid a nasty flare up of ‘what the duck is for dinner tonight-itis’
So on that note, I’m checking out of life and pretending to be my 20-year-old self for just a few hours. I’m gettin’ ca-razy and I’m going to bed without my shirt ironed, without my K-cup placed strategically next to my to-go cup, without my lunch packed and without a dinner plan for tomorrow.
Will I regret this night of irresponsibility tomorrow at 5:35 am? You bet!
But by then my nasty 12-hour cranky-mom-atosis will be gone and I’ll return to my regular condition of Incredibly Thankful for all the awesome things we have going on in our world.
Once in awhile, feel free to let your bottle be half empty (especially if it’s your favorite bottle of wine). It makes you a human. And even Super Moms need to rest their capes once in a while.
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Cranky, Party of one… your early bedtime awaits!
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Oh girlfriend, I wish I could join you in that bottle of wine (or two)! We alllll have these nights – and alone time with wine and a chick flick or some isolation with the ipad is just what the doctor orderd. It doesn’t make anyone less of a mother, wife, friend, woman, person…. it’s just human nature! With so much to juggle, it’s ok to put all of the balls down for a night and retreat away from it all. If I had a nickel for every time I crawled directly into bed after putting Lainey to bed for the night, I’d have like 55 cents!!