Melissa Joan Hart: Mothering Is, Like, Hard And Stuff
Melissa Joan Hart, famous for some show that I forget, is lamenting the fact that when her rocker husband goes on tour this week, she's going to be all alone with the little darlings:
"I'm not sure I can handle two babies on my own, unlike my sis who is super-mom," Hart, 32, who gave birth to son Braydon Hart Wilkerson in March, writes on her MySpace Celebrity blog.The actress and husband Mark Wilkerson, 30, a Grammy-nominated musician, also have 2-year-old son Mason.
"We are adjusting nicely to being a family of four, although it is a tough job," says Hart. "It's about to get a lot tougher as Mark leaves on tour this week."
Poor thing. I can just imagine what it is like to have a toddler and an infant at home at the same time. No, really, I can, because I did it. My husband worked 60-70 hours a week. And look, we all survived!
I find it hard to muster up a lot of sympathy for a woman who has enough dough to, oh, I don't know...hire someone to help out?
Don't get me wrong. I applaud celebs who want to raise their own kids without leaving them solely to the nanny, but come on. This isn't a true single mom who has to make the decision about either finding decent childcare while she works her minimum-wage job or leaving the kids home alone because she can't afford it, or having to make the decision between paying a babysitter or buying food for the week. This is a celeb who lives in a nicer house than most of us will ever see, has more money that most of us will ever have, and who can afford to have someone come in at least a few hours a day to help out with things.
I'm sure she already has someone helping with the housework (unlike the aforementioned exhausted single mom, who has to pick up her dinky little apartment whenever she gets the opportunity after working all day long) and the yard work (again, unlike the single mom in the apartment with no yard at all for her kids to play in), so hiring someone to help change nappies and feed bottles a few hours a day shouldn't be a stretch of the finances. I'm sure her life is busy, but come on.
So call me when your life gets really rough, Melissa. Until then, shut up and go change a diaper, because while you were whining on MySpace your kid just dropped a load.
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