Enough Whining

I came to a realization the other day: I have it pretty flipping easy around here. I whine a lot about not having my man around, and I whine about wanting to move, and I bitch incessantly about the kids, and all the people I love tell me I am doing a great job. Yes, I have 4 kids with whom I spend all of my time with in a nothing little town where I know almost no one and interact with less people than that. I know that 4 days a week I am a stay at home single mother with all the weight of the world on her shoulders. We can't sell our house, I am so alone, I want to be near my hubby and my friends........BLAH BLAH BLAH. Here is the real deal - I am going to be honest with myself and everyone else (Renee) that reads my blog. I am living an easy easy life. Yep, I have the horde to deal with breakfast lunch and dinner, and there is cleaning and homework and issues and pooping....but when those things are out of the way, I am on my own. I can do whatever I like all day long. Here's to the women who go to work...I think of difficult things to cook for fun. Here's to the REAL single moms out there....I wait for Friday (Thursday if I am lucky) and hand off the horde to a willing and able man who is happy to cook and let me nap. Here's to the women who work AND have kids...God bless you, no one cares if I get dressed in the morning. My kids help me clean, help me take care of them, and generally make things pretty easy for me. Do they drive me crazy? YES. But they all go to bed every night and then I am alone. All these things would actually change if we ever DID sell this house. I would have another mouth to feed, for one thing. I would have more laundry. I would no longer be able to completely pass the kids off to James every weekend. I would have to get dressed, as I doubt anywhere I live would be secluded enough to let me wear my PJs most days. (especially while gardening) I would have THINGS TO DO....with no excuse to get me out of it. So this is me, thanking my lucky stars for the vacation from real life that I have been given. May as well make the most of it, I guess....I really DO have it pretty easy.