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Why don’t people with kids have time?
23Apr2009 Filed under: Mom Author: erincarrascoI keep coming across this on my friends (who are mom’s) profile on Facebook so I thought I’d share it with all of you. I find more and more now then when my son was young that I don’t have "time" to go out with friends anymore. We also don’t have 10 different babysitter’s to rely on. We have my IL’s that look after my son during the week, so I feel badly asking them to look after him on the weekend. But what I wouldn’t give for a morning off. Anyway, enjoy! I hope all of the non mom’s learn something from this 
**not that all non parents feel this way
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About Erin Carrasco
Erin Carrasco (Real Tech Mom) is a mom of a beautiful baby boy born in March. She also looks after her other two kids (Mia and Keely, her two cats) and her wonderful husband of four years. It has taken some time getting used to not being at home every day, but being a mom is a different type of job and I admire the moms who get to be with their kids every day!
Moms like me know that just because everyone says you should do it, or not do it does not make it set in stone. For us dinner is never the same time every night and because of my husband’s job, our lives are ruled by overtime, extra overtime, travel and the crack blackberry. I am not only a mom, I’m a woman and human being. Believe it or not I do enjoy a lot more than just being a mom! Some of my passions are a little geeky but still they’re me none the less.
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Colleen
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Thank you – I had not seen this. I have found it is also effective to take a vacation with the childless friends – who after 2 days into the trip said “wow, they take a lot of energy” and after 4 days decided to take a day trip away from us – LOL. They are good friends, and now completely understand the time constraints.
Christine
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I loved this article. I am lucky that I have friends with kids, but this summer when my childless friends come back home it could get interesting…
To be honest I sometimes catch myself wondering why I don’t have any free time, and then the morning comes and I am smacked across the face by day to day reality.
Nenette
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Thanks for posting this — loved it. All of my friends have kids, so I don’t have many issues about that… they all understand. It’s *family* without kids (hubby’s sister) we have issues with. They don’t understand and are considerably more vocal about “why aren’t you coming over to visit more often?” “why haven’t you seen Mom in so long?” We live in River Heights, they live in EK, and by the time we get there after school, we have to drive back in time to feed the kids and put them to bed at a decent hour.
LOL… sorry, it’s a rather sensitive spot.