I need it

I am supposed to be making my kids lunches right now. Tomorrow is a school day and work day for everyone and unless I want to make lunch at 8am while running around like a chicken with my head cut off, I should be making lunches right now. But I'm not. So goes my life. If you take the sentence "I should be doing [insert various item here] right now", you'll probably find me doing something else.

If I was C I would say "I need to do something else". For C everything is a NEED. And when I remind her that she doesn't in fact NEED whatever she has decided she cannot live without, she has a response for that too: "I have to!" I have no idea where she has learned this. Though in my future I see a lot of conversations along these same lines: "Mom I NEED that outfit!!!" "No, C, you're not getting it." "But I HAVE to have it." Another mom of a two year old reports many of the same conversations. So at least I know it isn't just my incredibly assertive (I say that with no small amount of pride. My daughter will not be one to let anyone walk all over her.) yet overly verbal child.

DH, who is being responsible is presently making his lunch and has just reported that while we have a jelly jar in the fridge, it is basically empty. Q will not be happy having only peanut butter on his sandwich tomorrow.

Really, sometimes, this being a mom thing where you're supposed to have all the answers, do all the work, buy everything that's needed, and respond to strange but apparently incredibly important needs, is not all it's cracked up to be. I think I'll call my mommy and tell her that I NEED 24 extra hours of sleep, tons more money, a good outline for the sermon I'm giving Sunday, and some strawberry jelly. I mean really, I just HAVE to have it.