Evaluation and Validation

Ever wonder how other people’s days go?  What are all the other moms doing in their houses all day? Sometimes I want to request a schedule from everyone I know to see if they are handling things the same way I am.

It can be a little tricky to switch from those days that are hijacked, crowded, and insanely busy, to those days when I just know I must have ten thousand things I should be doing, but somehow all of them have slipped my mind and my day is wide open and drifting slowly along.

Sometimes I think I need a supervisor. Perhaps I have been ruined by years and years of receiving grades on everything I did. I need some kind of outside evaluation and validation.

Just last week I made a really wonderful pumpkin pie at the request of my dear husband. I could see that it was wonderful. I could imagine that it smelled divine (I can’t actually smell a darn thing). But I still needed someone else to come in, take a look, and say,

“Yes, you are right. That pie is a thing of beauty.”

I really did call my dear husband out of his sick bed and make him look at it.

And actually, right now, at this very moment, something just happened that totally proves my point.

I am sitting here, writing away, and sort of wondering where I am actually going with this. So I called Lynn to make her tell me if it sounds ok and how to wrap it up. She wasn’t home. (She never is- she actually lives at her kids’ school). Then I immediately called Maren so she could tell me how great this post is and how to wrap it up. She wasn’t home either! My sisters are busy- don’t they know that I am in some serious need of validation and evaluation!?

I am taking a stand. I am reading this darn post, telling myself it is fine and then I am going to feel completely satisfied! After that I’m going to march into my laundry room, clean it all up and tell myself that it is absolutely fantastic and that I am a super hard worker, good housekeeper, and good mom. Yay me!