...Just an Observation

I am much more patient when I am with my children all day, then when I am not. When I am with them all day I move at their pace, eat at their intervals, move to their rhythms. When I have a day to myself I move like an adult again--fast, furious, efficient, maybe a little humorless. And when I return to them I am angry that they cannot move fast, eat fast, dress fast. You would expect the opposite to be true.