Dear Other Mommy,
How dare you judge me? How dare you give me those condescending looks and eye rolls? You don’t know me. You don’t know what is going on in my life. You have no idea what kind of mother I am.
Not that it really matters but the reason the we are at McDonald’s at 8:30 in the morning is that we did not have power at my house. It went out at 2am. The house was cold and I needed a way to feed my children.
You see losing power is not fun but because everyone here in my house sleeps with a fan, when power goes out we all wake up. I know that I looked like a hot mess this morning but that was because I had been awake since about 3:30am with each and every one of my children. It is very difficult to sleep with up to two children in your bed along with a husband.
All I wanted this morning was to crawl back into bed and sleep but that was not going to happen so that is why we trekked out. Since sleep was not going to happen, coffee was a must for me. I wanted to drink my coffee, watch my children play and surf the Internet.
Which is what I was trying to do when all the commotion happened. See, to you I looked like I was not paying attention but I was. I saw what was going on. I just don’t think is necessary to sit right out side the play area and watch my kids. I don’t need to hover. Obviously, you don’t agree with this method.
I heard my kids getting loud and I saw them running and playing. And it might not have looked like it to you but they were actually trying to include your daughter in their play. Now, I do agree that their screams were getting a little too loud but for goodness sakes, it is a play area and if kids can’t run around and scream there, what is that place for?
I know to you that it appeared that they were screaming at your daughter but that is not true at all. She just happened to be in the cross fire of the screams. But if you hadn’t been so busy rolling your eyes and scoffing at them, you would have seen that she was laughing and smiling right along with them.
My children were not going to hurt her. They were playing. I am guessing that you only have one child because sometimes when little kids play together it gets physical. I promise I would have stopped it before it got too far but in my book, it was not where near that point.
Just consider yourself lucky that my reaction time was delayed from the lack of sleep and caffeine because other wise I might have slapped you for screeching at my children to get out of your daughter’s way when you suddenly decided that you had, no needed to go to the park right that second.
Now, I would have gotten up and helped you but you see just as your screeches and cackles frozen my children in their spots, the same thing happened to me. I just couldn’t believe your reaction.
Anyway, you may want to consider some chill pills for the future and I hope that you had a nice time at the park. Oh, and I am guessing that you didn’t realize that it was raining before you told your daughter you were going to the park. Yeah, have fun with that one.
~Jen
