No 'A' Game Today

I am a great mom.  Really, I am caring, dedicated, and an emotional rock at least 60% of the time.  So, why do I suddenly have the fear that I could have a special visit any day now.  Well, I'll tell you.  This morning started out very much the same as all my Fridays do.  I forced myself out of bed 10 min. ahead of schedule to make sure everything was in order for my cleaning lady who shows up promptly at sometime between 8:15 and 9:25.  Sure enough, like clock work she arrives at 8:37.  Anyway, while she was upstairs sprucing  things up for my follow up cleaning later in the day, I fed my kids breakfast, made sure they both did their online school work, and had them start on a math lesson.  My children being their uncooperative selves, were not helping the smooth running of the morning and one had even escaped to 'get dressed' while the other was making dramatic sounds over his work.  I could hear the cleaning lady heading to the main floor and location of the 'school' room and decided we would take a 'break' until she was done 'sprucing' this area for me.  A few minutes later my youngest is all dressed, it's amazing what he managed to accomplish in 30 min, and heading back to the school room, when I informed him that he could go down to the basement with his brother and we would finish later.  As I am walking away, I hear him call out, quite loudly, to his brother, "Mom said we don't have to do school today!"  I froze and cringed at the same time.  Oh well, he is probably right, we most likely won't revisit our education and if the cleaning lady feels the need to right this societal wrong, so be it. One can't always be on their 'A' game, but everyone knows you fake it in front of others.  We must appear perfect and flawless, not just to avoid criminal punishment as in this instance, but more importantly to make others feel awful about themselves and their flaws.  I mean people can't just go around messing up and being real, that would shift the entire balance of the world.  I shudder at the thought of what may happen to the universe if we started showing a little compassion and understanding.  I will now banish that thought, it is just too frightening.