I’ve Been Ignored.
OK, so there’s a chance I overestimated my need to “be a single mom” while Bill was recovering from surgery.
In fact, quite the opposite has happened! I have spent nearly every waking moment in the hospital with my husband, making sure he can get up and around. It has been more like being retired than single motherhood.
Meanwhile, my children have been cared for in the best of ways – by grandparents. This means that they’ve gone off to school in the morning, come home and played video games and watched YouTube until dinnertime, then had people who love them like crazy take them out to dinner! It’s been more like a vacation than anything else.
So when I came home every night, the kids weren’t pleased to see me. They didn’t bother to look up from their computers or their TV screens to say hello. Two days in a row, I’ve been ignored. And even though I’ve pointed out that they’re ignoring me, the kids don’t seem to care.
Of course, I punctuate each evening with a lecture that sends Dylan storming upstairs to do whatever work his teachers have told me he hasn’t completed – as he screams that he DID THAT ALREADY! and that it’s ALREADY DONE! But his teachers send these emails while I’m at the hospital, and they say that Dylan has not completed his work, so… who am I to believe?
Shane barely even says goodnight, but I am here to make sure I can hear him if he wants to say it.
Interestingly, I am exhausted like I’ve been running a marathon, when all I’ve done, really, is sit in a hospital room and read a book.
Thank you, God, for grandparents.