Another Round

Oh, we're playing the bad mother game? Awesome. I'll go first.

When we got home from brunch at S's restaurant and the Museum My Children Love That I Find More Boring Than Standardized Tests (and which I only agreed to go to when they said I could buy a magazine and read while they played, though I didn't really read much, but I didn't play with them either), I let M watch TV for the rest of the day, while E played her Clifford computer game upstairs and then played Spider Solitaire (easy version) on my laptop in front of the TV, and I fed them popcorn and soup and noodles and frozen peas in front of the TV and the computer, and really I did all this not because M had a tiny fever, though she did, or because E was worn out from Thanksgiving weekend socializing, though she was, but because I just wanted to read the paper and clean the house in peace.