In the world of stay-at-home mom'dom there are playdates, parks, storytimes, and Mommy and Me classes to keep mommies and little tykes alike entertained. But after four consecutive years of this madness, plus the three years I put in while taking a few classes or working part-time, I am BORED to death. To DEATH I say. How much Nick Jr. can any one grown woman take...I'm sure my own 3 year old is bored out of his gourd with me AND Nick Jr.! But with a birthday falling after the October 1 deadline for our school district we're stuck together until 2010. That's another 2 and a half years away seeing as school starts in August! What is a girl to do?
I am honestly tired of the concept of a playgroup only because I'm not the only bored SAHM, evident by the way our playgroup is run like a Fortune 500 company. When there are stringent rules on when, where, how and why we attend playdates...PLAYdates, you know we are some bored mamas but what can we do? It's one way to get around other adults and allow your little person to enjoy himself with other kids but even that has become boring to me. So I've read up on the issue. I'm not the first nor the last to do this SAHM gig so someone HAS to have some insight on my tragedy.
Find and do something you enjoy while you're home with your child. That was the first tip. So I found another website hiring writers to contribute in blog fashion, I'll apply and see what happens. I'm currently writing for another site, www.parentingsquad.com where I get a chance to write and at the very least have my stuff read by other writers. Hopefully someone out there at some point will read it and enjoy it too! Maybe that's a good starting point.
I just feel like it's a new year and I should be off and running and I'm not. I'm stuck and I'm driving everyone in the house crazy while I spin my wheels trying to come loose from whatever muck I've found myself in. Bored, bored stiff I am. If I come up with more tips than that site offered, you, my friends, will be the first to know about them. Meanwhile, I'm off to fold clothes and tidy the family room...that outta keep me entertained.
1 comment:
Dear GOD I understand. I'm so freaking bored! It's been almost 3 years. I feel like I'm just waiting for the toddler years to pass. Sometimes they're incredibly cute and I do love them to death. But another few years and I'll be truly brain dead. I don't think it was meant to be this way - all of us living in our separate houses, having to come up with ways to actually talk to other adults. We're surviving. Some days it's better than that. Some days it's not. Thanks for writing.
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