Lutherville Mom
A Week of Summer Camp: Using the Time Wisely
One Lutherville mom feels guilty when her brief kid-free time isn't spent shampooing the carpets.
I made a friend of mine jealous today when I ran into her in the checkout line at Target. She was with her daughter and asked where my kids were. “They’re all at camp this week,” I gloated and then waited for her to tell me that she was envious. She did, but my self-satisfaction was short lived. For one thing, my house feels creepy when it’s this quiet. Even my dog is jumpy. For another, I put a lot of pressure on myself to get all kinds of huge tasks completed when my kids are gone for several hours a day. As I write this, a brand-new carpet steamer/cleaner thing (total impulse-buy at Kohl’s) is silently chiding me from the corner of my room for not even reading the instruction manual yet. Time is ticking. But the biggest reason I can’t …
Joanna Franklin Bell
3:19 pm on Thursday, July 7, 2011
Jenny, you're still free tomorrow, right? Come do mine! ;) more ›