Sympathizing with Marie Antoinette: a tirade

I am sure that we are all familiar with Marie's famous statement, "Let them eat cake!" I think that what she meant by this is actually debatable. Perhaps what she really meant was, "Of course! By all means! Give those poor starving people some bread!" (I like to try to give people the benefit of the doubt wherever possible, because I assume that I'll need to claim mercy for some stupid statement that I'll make in the future.) However, for the sake of this nice little tirade, we are going to pretend that, in fact, she was most annoyed when she proclaimed this infamous statement.

It's been another one of those weeks....Nate had to rework is cursed LP paper to be graded again (all of their papers get graded TWICE, is that not annoying?), William decided to catch a cold, and Ellie, sweet thing that she is, was as demanding as ever. So basically I had to fend for myself to try to meet the demands of my beautiful children. William would not nap, and was clingy and needy, and wanted to be walked around with. Ellie wanted milk, or a snack, or a show, or a story, or a toy, etc. When William would crawl around on the floor he would often cry because the poor thing would hurt himself; it felt like almost constantly, or Ellie would be like, "No Wiwum! That's my toy!" The moment I sat down, would be the instant that I had to get up again. My house is in a messy chaos, because everytime I try to clean it up, I am thwarted at every turn. Anyway, sorry, no need to drone on and on.

In the midst of one of these episodes I was trying to eat my lunch. As many of you know, I am quite irritable when hungry. I am really no better than your average hungry two year old, I'm just a little bit better at controlling my temper. I was just sneaking in my third bite when Ellie says, "Mommy!!! Wiwum is eating crayons!" At this point I thought to myself, "Let them eat [crayons]!!!!!" It was also at this point where I thought of our friend Marie. I could totally see it, "Can't you peasants take care of yourselves for ten minutes so that I can think!!!! Here take some bread and go away!" This is much similar to what I was thinking. "So be it! Crayons, like unto wetwipes, are non-toxic! Can't you [sweet, adorable] children amuse yourselves for ten minutes without having a castrophe???"

I would, however, like to say that I DO love my children and YES they usually are sweet and wonderful, but motherhood also comes with frustrating moments such as these.

I also must give credit to Sheri Melissa Weekes Adams and Dave Barry. Sheri because we have talked in a similar manner of Marie Antoinette in the past. And Dave Barry, because, well, Dave is funny and inspiring. Sheri is also funny. The End. Finally.