supervising from the couch: Least favorite day in my least favorite month

Monday, January 10, 2011

Least favorite day in my least favorite month

I'm with Melissa when it comes to January. And Mondays are no fun either—usually I spend the day trying (but failing) to catch up on laundry and doing clutter control. Nothing photo-worthy. Instead, here's one of the New Yorker cartoons Rob put on my bulletin board recently. I love his sense of humor.

2 comments:

Swimmingmom said...: Funny!!!!
Yesterday,Monday,was supposed to be my catch up day. I had hoped to combat the huge laundry piles, but alas. Only one load completed. There's always next Monday :-); January 11, 2011 at 6:52 AM
Melissa said...: That was good - made me laugh. Yep, in general I don't enjoy Mondays. Jonas was just saying the other day how he hated Mondays, too. He thought since no one really liked them we should get rid of them. If only I knew how to do that without just having Tuesday become the new Monday. I think there would have to be a maid involved for it to work.; January 11, 2011 at 1:11 PM

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here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.