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Heather

Hide and Seek

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	Hide and Seek Mar 5, 2008
Am I the only one who occasionally hides from her kids? I don’t mean seriously hide, I mean standing in the corner of the laundry room, eyes shut, clutching a handful of carbohydrates. Every now and then I just have to steal a few minutes in a room I know my kids would never inhabit. This leaves me with two choices; the laundry room or the cedar closet. Until I find a guy who thinks the smell of cedar is an aphrodisiac I’ll stick to the space behind the dryer. It just gives me a moment to re group and re adjust. It started out as an experiment. I would wait in there while my children screamed for seconds on lemonade. I thought that if they did not see me they might actually seek out their own liquids. So far no such luck!
Posted by Heather Mar 5, 2008 2:51 PM PST Report Abuse

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	Ha! I don't even have kids, but the ONE TIME my husband's niece stayed at our house, I knew I wasn't ready to be a Mom yet. Sure, the first couple of hours of playing dress up with my old Halloween costumes & putting on plays in the living room was fun (she kept making me the princess, and my husband a dead turtle... love that kid!), but after a while I started realizing that my head ached, I was exhausted, and she seemed more hyper than when she first started playing! Some girlfriends of mine stopped by, so they kept her entertained most of the evening, taking some of the pressure off of me. And, I will admit it... I let her stay up WAY past her bedtime, thinking that way at least I would be able to sleep in too, right? WRONG! That kid was in my room nudging my legs and whining my name at 5 am! FIVE AM! So, I FAKED BEING ASLEEP. After about 10 minutes of getting no response out of me (poor kid probably thought I was in a coma or something), she finally went to my husband's side and got him up instead. And that was just fine with me. I love children, I really do, but I think I'm going to need more practice runs like this to really master how to get my husband to pick up the slack in EVERY situation!


	I think that every mom has hidden from there kids at some point. I have even hid from them in there own rooms!


	I have hid from my kids on occasion. One night the electricity was out and them and their dad got on my nerves so bad (nothing to do and all, what did they do before electricity) I hid in the closed for probably twenty minutes. They had a real hard time finding me in the dark, but believe me they tried.