I saw her. In broad daylight. By the kiddie pool at Solara Resort, Canmore, AB.
She lay horizontal on a chaise while her hooligan children splashed the hell out of mine. Yep, they targeted Connor, Kai and Emmett (our 1 year old “brother”) with massive rolling splashes accompanied by smaller eye-directed squirts in the kiddie pool. It wasn’t pretty yet some of me was envious of her ability to “turn off” her parenting role. Yep, like it was a light switch, there was no light "ON" there… she just lay subdued and dreaming her non-parenting dream which likely entailed a white sand beach!
Meanwhile back at the pool - Jeff was taking matters into his own hands. Jeff described to me that while he surveyed the scene, he didn’t see the kids’ dad (likely a large black dude) anywhere in sight and figured while Mom lay comatose, he’d take it upon himself to “parent” (i.e., retaliate) these friendly pool kids. Now, Jeff has the uncanny ability to create a steady, high powered stream of chlorinated pool water with a simple squirt of his hand and he did so right into the retinas of those non-parented children. The kids didn’t see him coming (and they likely didn’t see well for a few hours after) but needless to say the splashing ended.
Their mother was none the wiser and I was watching the whole thing unfold like the astute parent that I am. My switch was "ON" but I took some notes from non-parenting parent for when Kai and Connor are hooligan age. I can't wait to turn it "OFF".
She lay horizontal on a chaise while her hooligan children splashed the hell out of mine. Yep, they targeted Connor, Kai and Emmett (our 1 year old “brother”) with massive rolling splashes accompanied by smaller eye-directed squirts in the kiddie pool. It wasn’t pretty yet some of me was envious of her ability to “turn off” her parenting role. Yep, like it was a light switch, there was no light "ON" there… she just lay subdued and dreaming her non-parenting dream which likely entailed a white sand beach!
Meanwhile back at the pool - Jeff was taking matters into his own hands. Jeff described to me that while he surveyed the scene, he didn’t see the kids’ dad (likely a large black dude) anywhere in sight and figured while Mom lay comatose, he’d take it upon himself to “parent” (i.e., retaliate) these friendly pool kids. Now, Jeff has the uncanny ability to create a steady, high powered stream of chlorinated pool water with a simple squirt of his hand and he did so right into the retinas of those non-parented children. The kids didn’t see him coming (and they likely didn’t see well for a few hours after) but needless to say the splashing ended.
Their mother was none the wiser and I was watching the whole thing unfold like the astute parent that I am. My switch was "ON" but I took some notes from non-parenting parent for when Kai and Connor are hooligan age. I can't wait to turn it "OFF".