So, my kids have have no day care this week and I've been mommy extraordinaire. We've had adventure after adventure, and I'm thoroughly exhausted. It's amazing that I can work 10-12 hours a day at my full-time job, run entire teams and multitask like crazy, but when it comes to tending to a 3- and 2- year old, I'm zonked.
We went to Davis Farmland yesterday, which is a huge petting zoo with a separate water park. I was there with the boys and feeling a little overwhelmed when I saw a mom with two kids who were about the same age except both were deaf. WHAT a challenge. When my kids run opposite directions, I can yell at one or the other and tell them to stop, and they generally do. When her kids ran opposite directions, unless they were looking at her, she couldn't get their attention to tell them to stop. Now THAT's a challenge. She'd have to run and catch one and then run and catch the other and then yell at them in sign language.
I was still exhausted, but I felt a little less like an uber-mom after that. It was very humbling...
