"Come on...Really?"
Okay, as a single, working mom my days are pretty tightly scheduled with very little wiggle room for things to go awry. I am an independent contractor doing due diligence mortgage underwriting from home which means long, unpredictable hours. Then there is the daughter in dance...all the time. Today was like any other with a "to do" list a mile long and me scratching my head wondering how I was going to manage. Well, I haven't quite yet. It's 9:20pm. We just got home. Daughter is in the shower. And rather than finish my last two files for review I have chosen to vent. I'll do the files after.
You see, earlier today I made a nice home cooked dinner of pesto penne for my kids before we had to leave again for another dance class. The kids loved it, and they even helped me do the dishes. Things were going swimmingly. No, really swimmingly. My daughter started screaching as she looked down at her wet stocking feet, "What's all this water, Mom?!" I was at the sink while the kids were behind me drying. I had the water running. I looked down at the floor, and water was quickly flooding my tiny kitchen. Now, I have had leaky pipes before, but this was unreal. The pipe had literally fallen, just came apart with no warning.
A phrase my kids hear a lot was uttered once again, "I don't have friggin' time for this!" Well, perhaps my verbage was a tad stronger in the heat of the moment. And that is how I lost 2 hours out of my day. Yes, we made it to dance class during which I managed a four mile jog to de-stress. Tomorrow is another day...I shutter to think. But now when I look at the pipe, I kind of chuckle.
You see, earlier today I made a nice home cooked dinner of pesto penne for my kids before we had to leave again for another dance class. The kids loved it, and they even helped me do the dishes. Things were going swimmingly. No, really swimmingly. My daughter started screaching as she looked down at her wet stocking feet, "What's all this water, Mom?!" I was at the sink while the kids were behind me drying. I had the water running. I looked down at the floor, and water was quickly flooding my tiny kitchen. Now, I have had leaky pipes before, but this was unreal. The pipe had literally fallen, just came apart with no warning.
A phrase my kids hear a lot was uttered once again, "I don't have friggin' time for this!" Well, perhaps my verbage was a tad stronger in the heat of the moment. And that is how I lost 2 hours out of my day. Yes, we made it to dance class during which I managed a four mile jog to de-stress. Tomorrow is another day...I shutter to think. But now when I look at the pipe, I kind of chuckle.
This is gonna be fun to clean up!
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