Haiku Friday: See Mommy Run
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 12:06PM 
See me run, run, run!
No time at all to slow down.
I am the Mommy.
Want to run and hide.
You can't see me. I'm hiding.
There's no Mommy here.
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Sometimes I feel like I have too much on my plate and I just want to run away and hide.
My husband and I have an inside joke when one of us leaves the house and it's been a stressful day, we say:
I'm going for cigarettes.
Neither of us smokes.
Sometimes it even gets followed up with:
Be back when the kids are 18!
When it's just the two of us though, that part goes without saying. We usually only add that in when someone else gives us a funny look about the cigarette part.
It's been one of those weeks and I really feel the urge to go for cigarettes.
I think it's time for a girls night out, but I feel guilty for asking my husband to stay home with the kids. He's been working hard at his new job all week.
Reader Comments (3)
On a bad day, when I tell my husband that I'm going somewhere, he says, "You're coming back, aren't you?"
I do hate that leaving-them-with-Dad guilt when Dad has been behaving himself reasonably well lately.... when I'm needing to escape him, too, then I have no guilt at all.
Pack up the kids, bring 'em over here... they'll hang out with my kids and effectively cancel each other out, and I have margarita mix in the freezer....
A sense of humor really does help, doesn't it? Cute haiku, and I'm hoping you can manage a little relaxing time.