I went back to work yesterday. We were one of the few schools open yesterday - due in part to the multitudes of eager parents who helped dig out on Thursday so we could open yesterday. I guess too many successive days home with elementary aged kids tends to make parents a little stir crazy.
It was time for me to go back. I couldn't take anymore of the constant movies, books, bloody mary, wine, cheese and crackers, the baking, the eating, the relaxing - ye gods, the relaxing! It's not that I didn't enjoy it. Oh, I enjoyed it. But it could so easily become a lifestyle. Shopping? Yeah I can do that right here on the laptop. Exercise? I'll just watch some sports on the tube. Make-up and hair? Naah. I'll just hang out here in my cozy pants and not answer the door. Kids, hand me my cell phone so I can call upstairs to ask your dad to bring me another cookie.
Yeah. It was time.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go find my running shoes.