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Monday, February 22, 2010
Cabin fever? Don’t forget your friends
The month of February is half over and my children have been at home more than school.
I admit it, the first big snow fall of the season is exciting - even for me. But, three of them back-to-back?
The excitement has all but fizzled out.
My new mantra is simply, “I love my kids, I love my kids, I love my kids …”
Over the course of the last month I repeated this through clenched teeth while my little angels climbed the walls.
The nostalgia of the first snow day and even the second was soon replaced with “we’re bored” and “it’s too cold outside.”
So, mommy found things for them to do - like, unload the dishwasher. We watched movies, played games and even broke out the Play-doh, too.
But my boys are full of energy and sibling rivalry - accompanied by incessant tattling - soon grated on my nerves.
“Mmooomm! Nicky hit me!”
“Mmoooomm! Noah said butt!”
“I love my kids, I love my kids, I love my kids …”
Finally at my wits end, I went where nary a mom braves to go (voluntarily, anyways).
“Saddle up, fellas! We’re going to Chuck E. Cheese.”
I wasn’t about to do this alone, after all my sanity was at stake, so I recruited two of my best friends to go with me. And yes, so desperate to get out of their houses, they showed up.
One even showed up childless (this has to be quite unusual at said location) to enjoy some afternoon “adult time,” if you can call it that.
The social time was much needed and the energy was well burned. But soon the walls were closing in again and that brought us to Valentine’s Day. The day of love that no longer holds any romantic value for exhausted parents.
So once again, we planned an afternoon with friends and children. This time at the bowling alley.
Frankly, it was one of the best Valentine’s Days I can remember. The kids played, the adults laughed (a lot) and no one cared whether there would be candles on the dinner table.
We all felt a little better, a little more relaxed, and though not quite ready for the next snow storm to shut us in again, we had warmed up a cold day with friends of all ages.
Thank God for good friends - and good kids - this dreary winter.
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