I just spent about an hour at a local Waldorf school. My landlords’ kids school was holding a Holiday Faire and I was invited to come check it out. Now I’m usually down for the arts, different foods and people watching of these festivals so I figured why not. I will be keeping a good relationship with my landlord plus, I might be able to get some Christmas shopping done.

When I got there, I hear kids screaming as they have fun on the playground and the older kids in groups as they chat about teen stuff. While I was there I visited the tea room and the gift store. At the tea room, they ran out of hot water, coffee and hot chocolate. So I walked up and down the pastries table filling up my plate with organic, gluten free, sugar free pieces of curiosity. When I finally got some hot water for my tea bag, I sat in a 3rd graders desk listening to a students guitar playing and of course eavesdropping on other people’s conversations. Whoever these people where they were; short tempered, pushy, inconsiderate, and hella selfish. I sat there feeling myself get stiff with stress.

The gift store was no better; kids talking loudly, parents pushing me out of the way to see a products, and just a large selection of overpriced hippie stuff.

After only that hour of being completely submerged in kidom I am more stressed than when I got there. And I’m the type of person who gets tired when I’m stressed. So I am this close to calling off my dinner in 2 hours. I just want to sleep all of this anxiety away from the whole experience. In fact, I know I wasn’t the only one who was stressed out there. When I was leaving I overheard a man talk to someone on the phone saying that he hears her yelling on the phone and he doesn’t want to get into it right now…. yup

Life is way less stressful without kids. I am so happy to be childfree.