Parc 🐝

You get up in the morning and realize they've both slept terribly and are cranky and tired from the start, but you have a full day ahead of you and won't be able to even let them nap today.

The toddlers get into screaming matches the entire day.

One toddler is tired and wants to go home and have their stuffed toy and favorite blanket and everyone is mean and everything is too loud and terrible. The other toddler is boooooored and why is the other toddler so boring and why do we have to do stuff that is boring and go places that are boring and can we do interesting stuff now, PLEASE?!

And meanwhile you have to get groceries and drag them to a doctors visit that they both hate, so instead of screaming at each other they're now screaming at you.

Oh and you also have to go to work today and take the toddlers. Your coworkers get annoyed at you the entire day, because why are you so distracted all the time and why can't you just do the thing they asked you to do and why aren't you listening and what the hell is your problem, just focus for once! Your coworkers cannot see the toddlers. They just see you and you're clearly not doing enough and not trying hard enough and why are you so childish, you're an adult, grow up already!

The toddlers actually wake up like that every day. The toddlers will never grow up. You'll never get a babysitter for the toddlers, not even for a few hours. Sometimes, very rarely, you get lucky and they actually both want to do the same thing and you get a few, precious moments, where they're happy and things are quiet.

The toddlers are actually just both you and they're stuck in your head. You don't even know that not everyone has those toddlers, you just think you're failing terribly at raising yours and being a proper adult.