well wednesday has become such a mad dash. I nanny from 7:45am (which puts me out the door by 7:30, up before 7! for me right now in my life this is crazy early) until 5pm, at which point I make a mad dash to catch a 30 min shuttle to the medical campus, take a 2 hour Epidemiology class and then 30 min. back on the shuttle. By the time I am home (like right now) I start to envy things like the alphabet pasta in my soup It is fun to be a nanny-for 20 hours a week I'm paid to pretend to be a homemaker and it makes me realize (sorry) just how really much that is not for me. Not that I don't love my job. I do! Today I got paid 12 bucks an hour to fold laundry while singing to Joni Mitchell! (while the girls were all at school) that's good stuff and I like the parts when they're home as well. BUT I think the reason I like it is because negotiating how many muffins is too many muffins with a 2 year old is SO different from my usual everyday stresses. It's fun to do dishes when your other choice is calculating the prevalence of schistosomiasis (cause I do that a lot)
Kudos to mothers that do it all the time. Kudos to women who don't go mad. I think my soup has cooled down and now I am so hungry. good night
1 comment:
Sounds kinda dreamy really. I mean you get to experience 'motherhood' part time and still be your own person the rest of the time. Not to mention not being the one to worry about money for clothing and home and other bills. How on earth can they afford $12 an hour without it being one of their salaries entirely? They must both be more educated than I.
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