Momservation: Today was such a tough day to be “Mom” that I needed my mommy.

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    Ever wake up and want to call in sick to being Mom?

Maybe it was because I went away for a girls’ weekend and got a taste of nobody needing me, whining my name, expecting me to do something for them or having to drive somebody somewhere.

Getting away from it all for a weekend in Tahoe with some skiing thrown in was supposed to recharge my batteries so I would return a pleasant Mommy again, happy to my job.

It didn’t take.

It’s not just that you can never escape from the never-ending laundry, the constant bickering and it being the right thing to do to feed your family on a regular basis. It just hurts my brain and instantly fatigues me before I even open my eyes in the morning when I start processing all that needs to be done free of charge, unappreciated and without hazard pay.

Then the worst part is instead of still dreaming about being stuck in an elevator with Orlando Bloom, my rising pulse is now caused by guilt about being a bad mother. What mom doesn’t want to see the beautiful, sweet faces of her children first thing in the morning?

How about a mom who knows those faces will be whining for their favorite shirt at the bottom of the dirty laundry, panicking that a field trip form isn’t signed and due today, and demanding that her brother get out the bathroom and leave her alone? And that’s only the beginning.

Copy, paste, repeat until the weekend when they then wake me with fighting over the remote, demanding to know where an athletic uniform of some sort is, and thinking the only way to eat food is if Mom leads them like a pack of starving wolves to the refrigerator.

Now don’t get me wrong – on a general, overall, everyday basis I like my life, I love my kids, I adore my family, but MAN is it exhausting to be so happy. It’s just some days you wake up and the ol’ tank is empty and it’s overwhelming to think there are no days off when you’re a mom.

Even if you have a heck of an excuse like being trapped in an elevator with a young, delicious, Brit who wants you to take him to Cougartown.