A Dad’s Role at Easter:
-Participate in Easter Egg Hunt activities
-Shower for dinner
-Get dressed
-Nap?
-Show up for dinner
That is all.
Mom’s Role at Easter:
-Weeks before Easter co-ordinate with sister, Mother, Mother In Law, Sister In Law, possibly cousins. Find dates that will work for a minimum of two Easter celebrations. Dates must not conflict with extra curricular activities of the six cousins or with any other family member schedules.
-Minimum of two weeks out start picking up “little things” for Easter from treats to socks to menu necessities.
-Create menu plan for meal you are hosting or dishes you are taking to multiple Easter feasts.
-Take children shopping for appropriate Easter outfits.
-Forgot to buy shoes. Go shopping again. Pre-teen will be all kinds of thrilled about this. Sigh.
-Week of Easter brave WalMart along with thousands of other last minute Mom’s to stock up on Easter Egg Hunt supplies and baskets. Suffer sticker shock at price of baskets stuffed with sad looking floppy eared bunnies and eggs that should be embarrassed to try and pass themselves off as chocolate.
-Create your own beautiful but pricy basket of joy and then give that damn bunny all the credit for delivering the perfect Easter morning.
Easter dinner is two hours away. Force the kinds into the shower and re-live the same argument that drying one’s hair after the shower is truly part of the “having a shower experience”. (every single time!)
-Present Easter outfit number one for dinner number one.
-Go to get dressed yourself. Realize you forgot yourself in the Easter Clothes shop of 2011. Try on six pairs of pants before you find one pair that is acceptable. Destroy closet in the process….another mess for later.
Check on girls. They have both altered their outfits to make them more “comfortable”. Decide to Let. It. Go.
Have they brushed their teeth? No.
Have they brushed their hair? No.
Are they wearing clean socks, any socks? No! Of course not, they can’t find socks. Ever.
Have an internal scream and go in search of back up. Where is Hubby?
Napping.
Deep breath.
Count my blessings.
Next year, playing the role of Daddy, will be me.
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I totally had this same thought yesterday! Why are holidays so hard on the moms?
Tell me about it! We actually got in a fight yesterday because I was sooo pissed. He slept until NOON!!! I swear where the hell would men be without us!
Loved this post! So damn true.
Ya my hubby’s role yesterday was, sleep in while I watch Sam, wake up and eat breakfast, go for a walk with Sam and I. Go buy a video game, get lunch with Sam and I, take a nap while I get Sam down and watch her when she wakes up. Then play his new game the rest of the day. He didn’t change one diaper all day. Must be nice.
ummm.. try every holiday I would like to be the dad. They do nothing and particpate in everything and they are done with their job as soon as the family leaves. The rest is all on us! Hope you had a great easter!
Yes, Yes and YES! And does anyone ever realize what we do? No. I once left all this up to the hubby. I had to go back and use a mind-eraser so that the kids weren’t permanently scarred….
you actually made him take a shower? that sounds too much like work…smiles. and thank you for all you did to make easter special….
So true, SO true. Good news is Mothers day right around the bend.
Rings a bell. I just don’t get it.
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Happy Monday. I think you deserve a nap today.
Yeah, somehow mom’s get the short end of the stick; don’t they? Other than all the drama leading up to it, I hope you had a great Easter.
Amen.
And that goes for every holiday.
Finally the truth is out there! (I haven’t showered since Good Friday)
Truer words have never been written. I think I’m gonna Go Dad for all the major holidays.
My dad dressed up as the Easter bunny every year.
Isn’t that just the truth, lol!