I'm Not Paid Enough
Okay, I'm a stay at home Mom, so technically, I'm not paid period, but it would be nice to get something beneficial from being my eldest child's personal driver. I pick him up at school at 2 every day -- which really screws up my afternoon and schedule (mainly because I'm paranoid about leaving an appliance running when there's not anyone home). Now my child has started driving school -- 4 nights a week, from 6:30 to 8:10. The place is located far enough away to make it wasteful to drop him off, come home and then go get him. Which leaves me waiting in the car in the parking lot. There is a mall about ten minutes down the road, and a library somewhere near the mall, but I haven't checked them out yet.

Has hubby offered to drive the son one of the nights? Or to come and browse the mall with me? Nope. Then again, I haven't asked (I know that would be defense if I mentioned something).

And if I ask the child to do something and he doesn't do it, and I point out how I do all this hauling around of his butt, I get accused of using that to make him feel guilty. Well...yeah, I do. Because, yes I love my son, but you know what? I'm not the one who failed driver's ed at school (mostly because of a personality conflict with the teacher). I'm not the one who ignored the advice to check to see whether or not I passed driver's ed until it was too late to take it in school again. On the plus side for him, he did offer to pay the entire amount for the class, but we turned him down. It was enough that he offered. And he does wash his own clothes, which is a good skill to have (even if it wasn't one that Napoleon Dynamite listed *vbg*). But the good points really don't make up for the wear and tear on me as well as on my car.

I heard from an old friend today -- Fat Cat. Turns out she has a Live Journal account, too. I looked up her screen name and saw some familiar names on her friends list *g*. It seems that a lot of people I know are hooked up with LJ -- and that's always a good thing *vbg*!