Alicia passed along her Parenting magazine and I was flipping through it this morning. I thought this list was pretty cute and it made me chuckle!
- Having the impulse, after discovering your kid has used your $20 lipstick to draw a giant plum-colored pig on your dining room wall, to call up Brad and Angelina and ask them if they'd like to take in one more.
- Returning the fancy but useless baby gift to the department store and spending the credit on shoes for yourself.
- Suspecting that those stars who got their pre-baby bodies back in two weeks are on drugs.
- Feeling secretly glad when you catch your neighbor's "perfect" child in a nuclear meltdown.
- Introducing your sister's kid - little Miss Organic Only - to her very first Twinkie.
- Setting up play dates just with kids whose mothers you like.
- Calling your jiggly belly your "mummy tummy" ten years after childbirth.
- Noticing the hot dad at drop off. (Hey, you're just lookin'!)
- Insisting on grown-up music in the car.
- Knowing, really knowing, with every fiber of your being, that your kid is the cutest one in her class picture.
I thought I would add a couple more...
- Letting Joseph eat only chicken sticks and grapes for a week straight because I can't get him to eat anything else. More than once.
- Joseph's long, gnarly finger and toe nails - because as much as I try, I just can't get them cut.
- Giving Joseph a banana even though it's really really ripe (more ripe than I would ever eat - and I generally don't discriminate) because he has one for breakfast every morning and it's the last one.
- Using Joseph and the awesome tower we are building as an excuse not answer the phone when I don't feel like chatting.
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Letting my kids wear pajama pants all day every day so they don't throw a fit.
Chewing the last peice of gum and trying to chew it really quietly so the boys don't know I have it
As soon as Beans knocks out in the car when we're out and about, Ruben and I make it a point to stop for our fave Chick-Fil-A soft serve cones. They are easier to eat when Carmen is asleep, I tried sharing my cone with her a couple of times... in the car that just does not fly, lol. Sticky everywhere!
I'm with you on the ripe bananas...guilty!! :-)
Oh, and letting E babble to himself (aka "develop his language skills") for an extra 15-20 minutes in the morning so I can finish getting ready. Hey, what else am I supposed to do with this no more a.m. nap thing?!?!
LOL! that was funny!!! hmm, i'm sure i have some!
hahaa. that is cute! oh yes, my guilty trick is putting on Barney every morning so i can get myself ready in P.E.A.C.E... or sometimes just so i can take a long shower, or to make a phone call, or email. okay, it's way guilty, i guess. ;-0
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