Now that I'm officially a "stay at home" mom (as in I've completely given up on finding any sort of job in this shitty economy) I'm starting to understand why so many of those 1950s housewives became closet alchoholics, fled home, or worse a la Revolutionary Road. It's not the grim repetitiveness of the housework (laundry, dishes, dinner, shopping, repeat) or the sometimes head-banging frustration of being trapped for a large chunk of time with two children under the age of five. Or at least that's not it for me. Because I actually enjoy being with my kids...a lot. Instead, it's the feeling of isolation....a sense of the world passing me by, of all sorts of interesting things going on without me, as I wipe someone's butt for the fifth time in two hours. The fact that we opted out of cable/satellite last spring doesn't help. Aside from what I glean via the internet, which is admittedly quite a bit, I honestly am so out of the fucking loop it's not even funny.
Which is why I want to give a shout out to my new best friend: Pandora. For those of you who do not have some sort of digital video player (DVP), then Pandora isn't going to seem that interesting. Yeah, it's pretty cool how it can create an entire radio station for you based on a favorite song or band. But the internet version has all the same crappy ads as any other internet radio station. However Pandora via DVP is 100% ad free. Which means awesome song after awesome song without any ad interruptions.
Ok...so I'm still isolated. But now my house is, at any given moment, hosting Lady Gaga, The Black-Eyed Peas, Bob Marley, The Shins, Talvin Singh, Vampire Weekend, MGMT. Which means I'm less likely to pull a Sylvia Plath in the near future. (tasteless? probably.)
Who says we stay-at-home moms can't be hip?
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Sorry, but that is what you get for going to college! You could be totally content, like your poor old 8th grade drop out grandmother was. Of course you would have also had to have been an involuntary house slave to your mom and nine siblings to clean-up after! All in all I think feeling disconnected means you were, at least, once very connected! Hey, I have an idea, you guys move up here and we will watch the kids!!!!
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