The Mother is Sitting Phenomenon

During an especially harassed week, my dad, who loves to find hidden gems in secondhand book stores, presented me with "Aunt Erma's Cope Book- How to Get from Monday to Friday- in 12 days." The famous American humorist was also a stay-at-home mom who managed to whip out features and humorous books over a career spanning many years. Don't take my word for it- read on! I can see you nodding in agreement from here :)

For years, I have studied the phenomenon of the mother who sits down for a moment to get off her feet. From all I've been able to gather, a message goes out over an invisible network that flashes to the world "Mother is in a sitting positio...n. Proceed and de-sit."

At that moment the doorbell will ring, children will appear holding vital parts of their anatomy, the dog will dig his paws insistently into a leg, a husband will call impatiently for help, a pot will boil over, a buzzer will sound, or faucets will go on all over the house, and a loud voice will shriek, "I'm telling."

The "Mother is sitting" phenomenon is probably one of the reasons meditation never really got a foothold on mothers when they were the ones who needed it the most.----From "Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How to get from Monday to Friday in 12 days