I Am Tired!!!!!!

Why don't children and husbands come with power buttons? Why????? I just need one day, one stupid little day where I don't hear 'mommaaaaaaaaaaaaa' or lewd requests from the Old Man.

I'm seriously considering taking my next paycheck and holing up in a motel for the weekend. No cell phones so that the Old Man can't call and ask me where the receipt from Home Depot is. (Seriously, do I take care of that stuff? Nooooooo. Check in one of the umpteen hundred stacks of paper you have lying about the house). No TV from which Hannah Montana twitches and belts out sappy love songs for teens. No fighting over who did what in the kitchen chores last night. No asking if annoying little bratty friends can come over.

Of course, if they did have power buttons, would they stop growing and changing when you had them switched off? Say, if I turned one of the kids off and put them in a closet for safe keeping while I was taking a break ( it would just be creepy to have a powered down kid hanging around)....and I forgot about said turned off kid....and left him/her there for a year....when I finally got around to cleaning that closet out, would they be still 6? Or would they have grown?

Hmmm....I'm pretty sure they'd still be 6. So maybe that's not such a good idea. My goal in life is to get them raised and out of the house. Not prolong the process. Don't go calling me a bad mother cause of that....I love my kids, to pieces!!! I've just been raising kids since I was 17. I'M TIRED.

The Old Man....ah....yeah, I wouldn't mind if he didn't grow. I mean, he kinda isn't gonna grow anymore physically, but mentally, he's ok where he is. So I'll take the power button for him. But then, who would cook? And clean? And make the kids do their homework? Maybe that's not such a good idea either.

Guess I'll just have to spend some money and run away for the weekend......