Every time we get home from school, as I’m trying to get Rush and Tate and all our stuff – backpack, lunch box, diaper bag, purse, and for some reason always more than that- inside, I think to myself, at least I’m going to be in great shape from all this work. But you never really look at a pack mule and think, wow, look how healthy he is.
Today, however, I did have some help lugging in bags of groceries in the form of an addictive upper. I gave up drinking caffeine on a daily basis a few years ago but occasionally splurge on a Diet Coke or cup of coffee. Typically though, I’m drinking water and mainly water without ice because ice just became too time consuming. Because the weather was nice this morning, I made a pot of (what I thought was) decaf to drink while Rush played outside. Cup after cup after cup and a wild, manic feeling later, I realized that I actually made good ol’ regular coffee. Yum. I think it actually made me a better mother and certainly a more productive one.
Now I’m trying to savor the remains of my felix felicis feeling.
In the first season of Desperate Housewives one of the moms takes her sons' ritalin and finds that she is amazingly, tile-scrubingly productive. I may have taken the wrong message from that show- I watched that episode and was jealous of her drug stash.
ReplyDeleteI am so reliant on caffeine to get my through early motherhood that I might as well be Jessie Spano. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so....scared.