I have to giggle at all the TGIF!!!!! tweets and Facebook updates because I honestly can't even remember the last time I ever said that. When you're a stay-at-home-mom or even a work-at-home-mom, then for the most part, Saturday is just the same as Friday, except it's sort of worse because in your mind it should be different than Friday, with your husband home for two straight days and all.
But alas, I'm awake at o' dark thirty with the kids, making breakfast, and already breaking up fights just like it's any other day, all while trying to catch up on emails, finish up a book proposal, and unclog a toilet that had an apparently larger-than-I-thought piece of a magic eraser shoved down it.
But today I've found a wide open bag of now stale chips on the counter, a pile of dirty pots still in the sink, and a very, very brave man still asleep in the bed.
Okay, so I'm wrong, it is a little different. But as you may be able to attest to, it's certainly not anything worthy of an acronym, unless it's WTF!!!!!!!!!!
You totally nailed it.
I hate saturdays. When I tweeted about it once people didn't understand. I'm sorry 2 days at home (or doing errands or outings) with everyone is exhausting.
Posted by: twitter.com/centsiblelife | July 14, 2010 at 10:48 AM
We need to start saying TGIM, because then at least some of the kids go off to school.
Posted by: Heather | June 30, 2010 at 12:11 PM
I can't wait to read the book you write with Liz. (I demand an autographed copy.)
(After I've done boughten it.)
Yeah, the days totally blend when you're home always. It's tough to see the silvery Friday-esque lining.
Posted by: Deb, i obsess | June 29, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Great post, love 'o dark thirty, comments also making me laugh. I find it excruciating how his Dad can sleep in no problem for a good 5 hours past when we are up. Yet if I even try to sleep for an extra ten minutes "Mommy up. Mommy up" and blankets pulled off.
I love the point some made, Karen (Submommy) and others about how it's actually more annoying than a weekday. I do find myself absolutely illl-tempered on Saturdays, always having that fantasy that it will be just slightly easier, and when it's not, and I can't even dream of a second to myself, (even during naptime when of course Daddy's FINALLY up) I get livid.
At least Sunday nights are not full of dread.
Posted by: Rachel | June 28, 2010 at 03:23 PM
I don't like Saturday because I actually like being in my office. And, I'm expected to help with diapers and stuff.
Posted by: muskrat | June 28, 2010 at 10:44 AM
It's a bit like working in retail then. Most days I don't know what day it is, just what my schedule is. Weekends, what are those? Is that what normal people do?
Posted by: Heidi | June 28, 2010 at 12:08 AM
It's totally easier when the Big Man isn't home. No one asking WHY the dishes haven't been done yet, or trying to feed the baby Twizzlers for breakfast... oh, how i wish I was kidding on that one...
Posted by: Domesticated Gal | June 27, 2010 at 08:38 PM
I agree!! Half the time I don't even realize it is Friday.
Posted by: SoMo | June 27, 2010 at 05:16 PM
This post cracked me up and the comments that followed were icing on the cake. SSDD is brilliant!
Posted by: Sabz | June 27, 2010 at 03:26 PM
Girl I hear you!
Posted by: Candace | June 27, 2010 at 01:35 PM
AMEN, sister.
What weekend?
Posted by: Karen (SubMommy) | June 27, 2010 at 01:10 PM
YES! YES! YES! (and, oh how I wish I was saying that for some other reason...)
Some days I think that it's actually EASIER when my husband isn't home. At least on those days I'm not annoyed that he's laying on the couch, watching cartoons with the kids, and not doing the list of things I think he should be doing.
And it's not as if my kids seem to notice that daddy's home. At least not right away, anyway. They still come bursting into the bedroom at the crack of dawn yelling out my name-even when it's my morning to sleep in. (though, bless my husband, he did hustle thme out of the room first thing yesterday-right after my daughter walked in and yelled MOMMY)
Posted by: Amanda | June 27, 2010 at 10:04 AM
You know even the calendar says WTF after Monday and Tuesday!
Posted by: Kelly | June 27, 2010 at 01:31 AM
The title of this post is AWESOME. lmfao.
Posted by: The New Girl | June 26, 2010 at 11:03 PM
For me, its TGIS. I love Sundays, my husband lets me sleep in. I wait for it ALL WEEK. :)
Posted by: Teresa | June 26, 2010 at 09:31 PM
I think SAHM and WAHMs should start tweeting "TGIM!" Because really, that's what I say during the school year. Some weekends, Monday can't come fast enough.
Posted by: Amanda | June 26, 2010 at 05:38 PM
I use the acronym SSDD for Same Shit, Different Day. It's fun!
For me, I like Mondays the best, but every day is just a day. I, too, am a sometimes single mommy!
Posted by: april forshee | June 26, 2010 at 02:22 PM
I am going to vote that as working mom, weekends no longer mean what they did when I was younger. They now just mean I have to get more cleaning done and try to catch up sleep, and try to keep a kid entertained. I am the one that gets up early, most weekends, and I plan activities. Someone still thinks that he should get to have downtime on the weekend. As if.
Posted by: Amelia Sprout | June 26, 2010 at 02:02 PM
Yep - you nailed it. Just add in the geographically single mommys due to deployments/buisness trips, etc. Same shit, different day.
Posted by: Mom on the Move | June 26, 2010 at 01:45 PM
I so agree.When you are a SAHM or WAHM Mommy, it really is same shit different day. The only thing different here is that Daddy is in town and sleeping in..which makes me a little envious, a little pissed off and a little homicidal!Aww, the joys of Motherhood.Happy Mothering!Now, make Daddy have a Daddy /kids day and you go sneak in a nap!
http://motherhoodthetruth.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Debi (Truthful Mommy) | June 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Definitely! Was up at 6:30 this morning with my little one, who decided that he didn't need dinner last night, and therefore was about starved by that time. We then crept about and watched more than a little TV just to keep him quiet until Papi finally surfaced at about 9am, by which time I was about ready to go back to bed myself...
Posted by: Dapbim | June 26, 2010 at 12:20 PM