Another milestone, another headache

Posted in Mom Stuff
by Lorain County Moms

My daughter can read: the end of my life as I know it.

It’s over. My kid can now read. Okay, not Tolstoy or even Nancy Drew but “I just saw your profile and you seem really nice” or “I need to up my meds,” yeah, that, THAT she’s all over.

Now you’d think I’d be thrilled my little baby can read and if it were to help me to somehow make my life as a mother easier, I would say, “Yay, great” but my emails? I’m starting to think I should have let her repeat another year of pre-school. I wear my heart on my sleeve and the filter on my mouth got lost somewhere in the birth canal, so the way I’ve dealt with it since my child was born, was to write and spell everything.

Now, I knew this day was coming and I’m not fully unprepared as I’d decided many months ago to learn Spanish, only that alternative doesn’t seem to be working too well as no one in my circle of friends understands anything that falls in between when I say “hola” and “Adio.”

On top it all, I know have yet another thing to remember and that is to log off after I’m done reading my emails. I can no longer just put my computer to “sleep” as I’m accustomed to doing. I have to push all these extra buttons and THEN go to bed and then I have to wake up and press MORE buttons.

I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Boy am I glad summer is here. Phew, and I thought I loved camp as a child? As an adult, I think it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Hopefully, for the next 12 weeks she’ll learn nothing more than how to swim better, apply her own sunscreen and make me a cute little necklace and maybe if I’m lucky, she might even forget how to read.

–Jessica Bern is the creator/producer of the Web series bern this about a neurotic woman’s journey through her weekly visits to her therapist’s office and an advice columnist for the mouthy housewives. She also is a contributor to the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, http://www.svmoms.com.