I don't think I've written about this before, but it is always on my mind. I feel so guilty about the fact that Tyler and Gavin spend at least 10 hours every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Kindercare. I love Kindercare, but I hate how many hours they are there. A better balance would be if they were there for a few hours each day to gain socio-developmental skills and then spend the remainder of their days at home with me. But our reality is that I enjoy working, the kids enjoy Kindercare, and we need the money so this works for our family for now. But, I still feel extremely guilty. Tyler does a good job of rubbing the guilt in. Often after I've picked him up from an action-packed day at school, he refers to me as Ms. Mama. That used to bother me a lot but I've gotten used to it and am just glad he doesn't call his teachers Mama the way I've heard of other kids doing.

But last night, he called me Robin, the name of his teacher. "What are you doing Robin?" he asked. I calmly replied "I'm cooking dinner and my name is Mama, not Robin." After a couple minutes, he walked up to me and Shawn in the kitchen and said "Hey, Robin, what are you doing?" Well, apparently Shawn feels the same sense of guilt I do because this really rubbed him the wrong way. Shawn grabbed Tyler by the arms and told him not to call Mama Robin again as that is not nice. While I totally appreciate Dada being the bad guy and standing up for me here, I can't imagine how Shawn will react when Tyler calls me Mama Dumb Dumb or some worse bad word.