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"I&amp;#039;m sure I&amp;#039;ve mentioned (probably too often) that I used to be a Theatre person. OK, I still am, just inactive as far as trodding the stage goes. I&amp;#039;ll never really lose that part of myself and I don&amp;#039;t want to anyway. So, of course, Oscar night is big stuff. Big, big stuff. And I had the kids. And the kids don&amp;#039;t care if it&amp;#039;s Oscar night. The kids don&amp;#039;t care if I want to have the TV, for a change. The kids don&amp;#039;t care if I can&amp;#039;t hear the TV, or see the TV, or don&amp;#039;t want to be distracted from the TV. They&amp;#039;re not used to Mom being like this, because it&amp;#039;s rare I ever sit and watch TV when they&amp;#039;re around.  But last night I wanted to do just that, and I wanted to do it very much. I asked for their cooperation, and instead I got to ride herd on a couple of shrieking hyenas with anger management issues for most of the evening. And just about the time I got them to settle down so that I could watch the TV in peace, I realized it was their bedtime, and a school night. So up to shower and bed we went, with me supervising and brushing hair and tucking in and reading and singing and another forty-five minutes gone from my viewing time. UGH. I didn&amp;#039;t really get to watch like I wanted to watch and I missed parts of it and I was good and put out by it all. I swore to myself that next year, if the Oscars fall on my weekend with the kids, I&amp;#039;m going to ask Peter to swap weekends with me. Either that, or I&amp;#039;m buying duct tape and Benadryl (I&amp;#039;m kidding, but it&amp;#039;s tempting).  Of course, that&amp;#039;s terribly selfish of me, to inconvenience them and him just because I want to see a TV show (and no, I don&amp;#039;t have TIVO or DVR). I just felt like a really cranky, overloaded single Mom last night who can&amp;#039;t even watch one blessed TV show in a year. Is that too much to ask? And would it be awful of me to trade weekends next year? Or should I just resign myself to not getting everything the way I want it and watch what I can? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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