Thursday, April 8, 2010

Kept

Right this second I think I would be happy for a lifetime being a Kept Woman.
The feeling will pass.
But right this second I wouldn't mind if my biggest worry was which eye cream would reduce my crow's feet.
Right this second I wouldn't mind if I never had to hold back a kicking and screaming-loud-enough-to-take-paint-off-the-walls child who's melting down because his mother left for work. Just like she's left for work 250 times before this.
Right this second I wouldn't mind if I never had to wipe someone elses's kid's butt.
Right this second I wouldn't mind if someone else dealt with the spilled juice and the boogers and the arguments about who hit whom and the tracked in mud and the strewn toys and the rejection of snack followed by the pleas for something to eat.
Yes. I think I would be happy for a lifetime being a Kept Woman.
But the feeling will pass.
Pretty sure.

1 comment:

  1. Chin up, Phoebe!

    If you were a kept woman you would have to constantly get your hair done (which strips it of natural oils), get fake nails (bad for your nailbed), and wear heals (just uncomfortable). That doesn't sound like your thing. The kids will grow out of it (eventually), and you won't have ruined hair, nails and feet. You probably will have extra crow's feet though....

    I know where you're coming from, and I don't even have kids of my own, let alone having to care for other people's kids!

    And, although I hate to quote the Baroness from the Sound of Music, it is apt, "Darling, haven't you ever heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school?" :) I am kidding, of course, but....

    Take care.
    Hope

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