When I 1st began this blog I wanted to "let off some steam" so to speak. I wanted to be able to share this with my kids as they got older as a way to sort of chronicle their lives, but not necessarily the serious parts but the parts that would make them laugh, the parts that they themselves would remember. The humorous stories, the things that drove me crazy....the things that make them....them.
But tonight...I watched a movie called "I Don't Know How She Does It." If you haven't seen it I suggest you watch it. Because whether you stay at home, work full time, or even do a little of both you will find in that movie something that relates to yourself. That something being what every mother feels at some point or another. So...tonight I am going to share with you how that movie made me feel. Even though I didn't need the movie to tell me. So...for those of you who barely know me and even those of you who know me well. This is my FULL story. This is why I am where I am today. And if you find anything in it I hope you find "The Truth" and I hope that it relates to you in some way. So here it is.
After Scott and I were engaged (it was a long engagment) I was not finished with school yet and wanted to be. But the day...and yes I do mean the day I drove to Peoria to have my first formal fitting of my wedding dress was also the day that I came home and took 3...yes 3... pregancy tests. Well for those of you who do know me you will know that our son just turned 10 and we will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary this June! I was excited, scared, and unmarried, yet engaged to a man that I had dated since 15! Not as bad as it sounds I know. But my biggest fear was that everyone and I do mean everyone would be disappointed in me. For being "irresponsible." I was unmarried, I was not finished with school, and I was living with and off of my soon to be husband and father of my child. I worked, went to school but had I really made anything of myself yet on my own. The only answer I could come up with was NO. So shit. Knowing me.....I have never been the type to lay down and take what is handed to me so I gave my now husband an out just in case he wasn't on board and yet he was. By me the entire time! We had a baby, you know him as Chase and we married. Chase ended up being our 4 mo. old Best Man! But I wasn't satisfied. I was raised to believe that going to college and finishing was NOT an option. It was expected of me. So...with some help from my parents I finished up at Heartland with an Assoc. in Science and with the even greater support of my husband and then 2 yr. old son I graduated without ANY debt from the Health Information Management Program at Illinois State University. Both of them along with all of my much loved family watched as I walked across that stage and took my diploma. I was proud of it. I worked hard for it. I spent countless nights putting a toddler to bed reading anatomy books and medical records and the law as bedtime stories. I swear he'll be a doctor some day because of that! One can wish can't she! And just so you know... contrary to my belief no one was disappointed in me! Chase was the 1st male baby to born into my mothers side of the family in 51 years and he was and still is adored (by no one more than me!) and I did it. I graduated, married and with a child and put in lots of hard work and late nights to do it! But I had amazing support!
My first job was offerred to me before I completed graduation. It was with Carle Cancer Center in Urbana and I spent 7 weeks as Data Manager which is a much needed position but defintely not one you want to stay in forever and then I was promoted to a research coordintor. Even though these were the people I was plucking information in for I really had no idea what the hell they really did until I was offered a desk, a disease site (metastatic breast and obgyn cancer) and was told to GO! Okay so what I was doing was recruiting patients who fit a certain profile for a particular new oncology drug, telling them it could possibly help them and then started them on treatment. Never had I felt so scared but at the same time so amazed at what I was doing! I was making a difference in the medical community and I loved it...even though more often than not I found that it brought me to tears and was causing me horrible stress. I mean what an amazing thing but what an awful gut wrenching feeling it was when it didn't work. So two years into the job I found out that I was going to have another baby. That baby didn't come. A year after that I found out I was going to possibly have another baby again. Again...that baby didn't come. So after lots of talk with my husband I quit. I stayed home for less than a year and took another job. This time at a pain center. I loved it. I loved them.
The position I took was coming in as a research coordinator and my job was to do what I was doing at the cancer center only I was doing it for pain patients. Let me clarify again in lemans terms what medical research is...or at least the research that I was doing. So when you see an ad for a new medication and it comes across the screen with a list of possible side effects.....you know, dizziness, hypertention, diarrhea, vomitting etc. I was the person who reported this stuff to the FDA. My results helped get it passed or not to market. So anyway. I was brought in to help "build" the department. And I did. I did it and to my own acknowledgement I did it well. But in the meantime. I lost another baby and then had 2 healthy bouncing ones. But I was torn. Just like all women are. I don't care who you are. I don't care if you have worked and then stayed home, always stayed home or work full/part time now. You will all relate.
I was moving up. I was bringing in patients and not only that, I was bringing in money. I had an excellent Director, excellent physicians and an excellent staff. I would be wrong to say I did it alone. No one can do much alone. Yes it had its moments and the faster and farther along it got the more moments seemed to creep up. But....I was moving. I became the woman who I always thought that I would be. I carried a phone that I could be reached on 24 hours a day. I sat in an office and texted my boss and my docs when they were in the same building. I was going to dinner meetings and mingling and meeting amazingly smart people. I was traveling. I felt that I had to prove myself day in and day out to the people that signed my paycheck. And I felt that I had to do the same at home. I was exhausted. I started bringing work home and I would put my kids down for bed, kiss my husband goodnight and then I would grab my laptop and start working. Going over data and emailing physicians until late at night. I was utilizing every resource that I had being my mother, mother-in-law,baby sitters, husband etc. to cover for me when I had to stay late to meet with a patient or go to meeting. I felt crazed,alone, out numbered...but I also felt excited. Like I was beginning to live up to everything that i had ever dreamed and worked so hard for. I was making a name not only for myself but for those I worked for. It was a terrible and yet yummy feeling! I felt that I was doing it! I was making it happen! Until....my son had his 1st Thanksgiving feast in kindergarten. We had to send the grandparents. Neither of us could schedule around it. I thought to myself, "this is silly, there are lots of kids whose parents won't be there because they can't!" And I was right. I'm just happy that I had mine and my husbands parent's to go and be there. So I sloughed it off. No big deal! I can manage this, I am woman hear me roar! Then came sick days. My son or my 2nd child would be sick,I would work from home but it was a hassle. For work that is and for me, afterall I was making my way. So then it came to my kid having a fever or a sore throat and I suddenly found myself blaming them. "You'll be fine, here take some tylenol and get moving. You'll feel better once you're up and moving. All the while hoping that the tylenol would outlast the fever so that I could get through my work day and my patients without any nagging calls from school or from the sitter. Then came the day that the tylenol wore off, I got the call (it was a rotten day to start with at work) and I had to go get my kid. I told my boss, who was less than pleased no matter how hard he tried to hide it, I jumped in the car and half way to school I was frantically calling my mother to see if there was any way she could meet me at home to watch him so that I could go back. She could and she did. I went back. I was welcomed back with this...."I was really surprised to see you come back! That really shows me your dedication to this position and speaks volumes about your committment." I don't know that I have ever been so disgusted. And not with my boss but with myself!
I was killing myself. I was so caught up in what I thought that I should be and what I thought everyone else wanted from me that I had no idea that I was destroying my spirit and not just mine but my familys. But this still didn't get me down or stop me. I kept going! Sure that I was doing what every other mother out there was doing and IS doing still today. Making her mark! Isn't that right!?! Be strong, set your path, be a warrior! Everyone will be better for it in the long run. Right?!?!
Well I became pregnant with my 3rd child and I was more than irritated when people would ask me if I was going to stay home now... blah blah blah.. I really had no intention of doing so. But things began to get tense at work, people weren't getting along, things were crazy and I was caught in it. I still had no intentions of leaving. I was doing a good job, I was making things happen and even though I wanted to leave at times (what employee doesn't think that from time to time) I liked what "I" was doing. Then came the night that I sat down to dinner with my family and my son mentioned a function at school he was having in a few weeks and my husband and I started going through our mental calendars only to come to the conculsion that neither of us would be there. My son, 7 at the time, scooped up his spaghetti and said, "you guys never come to anything anymore." I sat there....and sat there...then as I was loading the dishwasher, while holding my 2nd baby I burst into tears. It wasn't right...not that people don't have to work or want to work or don't have the right to work or do whatever it is they need to do to support themselves or their families, what I had been doing wasn't right. Not for me....not for my family. I had become the mother that I didn't want to be! I knew that I never wanted to be dependent on anyone, I knew that I wanted my kids to look up to me and respect me for being successful. But that came with literally singing into the phone and saying goodnight from hotel rooms, to hurrying to get them to bed so that I could go right back to work after they had been in daycare since 6:30 in the morning and I had had only 1-2 hours with them and it was in a rush and not quality time at all, it came with sending them out of the house sick, etc etc and the list goes on. This is not the mother I wanted to be. So after a long discussion I put in my notice and have been home for almost 3 years. Now let me tell you.......there are days when I know that it was easier to head off to the office than it is to take on these 3 monsters. But I'm here! I also want to point out that I know that not everyone has the means or even wants to stay at home. Its a blessing and a curse truly, they both are. Women are amazing creatures, we truly do create and dominate whatever position we take on whether we want to or not. What I'm saying is that...working mother, stay at home mother, or any mother in between. We are not truly successful unless we are successful in the eyes of our kids. No matter how you take it on. God Speed! And no matter how you approach it, may you love every minute of it! Even the lipstick, nailpolish covered, dirty diaper, puke soaked, pull your hair out moments! Yeah it may take a village but to one child it only takes one special mother.
By the way, yes, I will go back someday, yes I do miss it, but when my kids are grown up I know I would have missed them more.
So there it is and now you know it....
Mom, Momma, Mommy (or....#1, #2, and #3 of the new grey hairs!)
Friday, February 3, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Teas the season to be jolly!
2011 has come & gone but it certainly didn't go out without a bang! As usual in our house things become crazy in an instant. It began with our beautiful x- mas tree being taken out not just once but twice before Christmas even came! Once was the dog scratching his butt in it and the next was Chase trying to "shoot" baskets over it! It also included the peeing baby doll Santa brought for our 2 year old that he was obviously unaware of this feature until that baby peed all over my new couch! It also included dogs running off with gifts , kids throwing down over who was going to open what whether it had there name on it or not! It also had the added humor or horror of my 4 year old asking my 2 year old in the most serious way " what the hell" did you get Sidney! Then rang itself in with my girls placing every pair of underwear I own around their necks and dancing around yelling " we're dancing princesses!". So come on 2012! Bring it!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Just a Day At Home
Lately my days have been filled with quite interesting, amusing, and at times mortifying talk or conversations with and between my children. The girls are both talking very well now so this has made for some crazy verbal diarreaha here at home. So I thought that I would fill you in on a few of their precious conversational wizardry!
1. You may have read the one on facebook already about Liv telling me that she wants me to have another baby, it has to be a girl, she has to be pretty, and we are going to name her Flower. Oh and she ended that conversation with a very firm, matter of fact, "No ugly baby!"
2. Sidney was throwing her snack to the dog, talking all lovingly to him, telling him he's a good boy, etc. etc. Until he decided to lean up and just grab what she has sitting there and then she exclaims to him "NO WIMUS (Linus), bad boy! Ugh, damn dog!" Then quickly returns to her little lovely voice of "here ya go boy."
3. My parents were over one evening and Sidney was of course wearing nothing but a diaper and mom told her in a joking manner to go get some clothes on. Sidney replied "YOU NOT MY MOM! You go time out!"
4. Out of dead silence one evening I hear Liv exclaim to Chase "You stink Chase! You are a stinky stinky boy and I want a different boy for a brother!"
5. Liv: "Mom! Sidney just said Stupid and Damnit! She should not say stupid or damnit! Can you go tell her not to say stupid and damnit!?!?!"
6. Liv: Momma, I think you're pretty~ (awe!) But old people aren't pretty! I don't like old people! Gee, guess I know where I'm going when I get older if she's in charge!
7. Chase: Laughing~ "Mom! Oh my God! Oh my God MOM!! Sidney crapped her pants and shes holding the diaper! EWWWW!!!! Oh my God! Poop just fell on the floor!!!"
8. Liv: "Chase, if you touch my horses again I'm gonna cut your
hair off and smack you with it!!!"
9. Livi, while in the bathroom: "Sidney NO!!! Sidney I can wipe my butt myself!!" Sidney: I help you Wiv, I just help you! Bend over!" Liv: MOMMMMMM!!!!
10. Chase after I got my hair cut shorter than usual. "What did you do to your hair?' Me: I cut it and colored it." Chase: Well the colors good but I do not like the cut." Me: What don't you like about it?" Chase: "I don't like the bangs or the way it flips, pretty much I don't like all of it, don't do that again." Later I put it into a ponytail and he says "Now I like it like that!" Thanks, I'll be sporting a ponytail for the next 3 months!
From the mouths of babes and not just any babes, my babes! They may not be proper but they keep me laughing and as long as I don't get called into school or anywhere else. So be it at home, truly the only place you can just be you!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
1. You may have read the one on facebook already about Liv telling me that she wants me to have another baby, it has to be a girl, she has to be pretty, and we are going to name her Flower. Oh and she ended that conversation with a very firm, matter of fact, "No ugly baby!"
2. Sidney was throwing her snack to the dog, talking all lovingly to him, telling him he's a good boy, etc. etc. Until he decided to lean up and just grab what she has sitting there and then she exclaims to him "NO WIMUS (Linus), bad boy! Ugh, damn dog!" Then quickly returns to her little lovely voice of "here ya go boy."
3. My parents were over one evening and Sidney was of course wearing nothing but a diaper and mom told her in a joking manner to go get some clothes on. Sidney replied "YOU NOT MY MOM! You go time out!"
4. Out of dead silence one evening I hear Liv exclaim to Chase "You stink Chase! You are a stinky stinky boy and I want a different boy for a brother!"
5. Liv: "Mom! Sidney just said Stupid and Damnit! She should not say stupid or damnit! Can you go tell her not to say stupid and damnit!?!?!"
6. Liv: Momma, I think you're pretty~ (awe!) But old people aren't pretty! I don't like old people! Gee, guess I know where I'm going when I get older if she's in charge!
7. Chase: Laughing~ "Mom! Oh my God! Oh my God MOM!! Sidney crapped her pants and shes holding the diaper! EWWWW!!!! Oh my God! Poop just fell on the floor!!!"
8. Liv: "Chase, if you touch my horses again I'm gonna cut your
hair off and smack you with it!!!"
9. Livi, while in the bathroom: "Sidney NO!!! Sidney I can wipe my butt myself!!" Sidney: I help you Wiv, I just help you! Bend over!" Liv: MOMMMMMM!!!!
10. Chase after I got my hair cut shorter than usual. "What did you do to your hair?' Me: I cut it and colored it." Chase: Well the colors good but I do not like the cut." Me: What don't you like about it?" Chase: "I don't like the bangs or the way it flips, pretty much I don't like all of it, don't do that again." Later I put it into a ponytail and he says "Now I like it like that!" Thanks, I'll be sporting a ponytail for the next 3 months!
From the mouths of babes and not just any babes, my babes! They may not be proper but they keep me laughing and as long as I don't get called into school or anywhere else. So be it at home, truly the only place you can just be you!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Empty drawers
If you know me and my girls you know that our biggest battle comes from them continuously emptying out their dresser drawers! Its a battle that has led me to locking them out of their rooms during the day just to save my sanity and time! But, they have been doing well lately, playing nicely together up in their rooms and the only issue is the constant flood of toys that flow into the hallway but thats not that big of a tragedy.
But last night, I walked upstairs to get a pair of pjs out of Sidneys drawer and to my surprise the drawer was empty! Figuring she must have placed them in one of the drawers below I open up the next one. No clothes! No clothes in any of them! And no clothes on the floor either! So I walked to Livs room thinking maybe she decided to take them in there....nope! I'm dumbfounded at this point! I am looking all over the upstairs and I called for the girls and all I got was a typical "I dunno know!" "Sidney did it!" Etc Etc! No one is fessing up and no one is telling me where they are!!! Finally I just shuffled them off to bed!
Then this morning, I went back upstairs to continue my search. Still nothing! So I go get a basket of clean laundry, bring it upstairs and I am racking my brain the whole time! I decided that while I was up there that I would dust. So I am dusting a cabinet that sits in the upstairs hallway and I notice that the doors on it are slightly propped open. I open one and TA-DA!!!!! There is the entire dresser of clothes stuffed into the bottom of the cabinet! Don't know why I didn't think to look there last night!
The best part is that while I'm bending down opening all 3 doors to the cabinet the girls start walking upstairs and they catch sight of me through the banister! They stopped dead in their tracks, turned around and tried to quickly and quietly run back downstairs! The minute I told them to STOP they screamed and took off running all the while Livi yelling "It wasn't me...it was Sidney!" I had to laugh!!! But then they had to help put them all back! Then Liv says, "Momma, I'm sorry for telling Sidney to put those in there! She should not listen to me! " STINKERS!!!!!!
Life is crazy but its always a blessing!
Mom, Momma, Mommy~
But last night, I walked upstairs to get a pair of pjs out of Sidneys drawer and to my surprise the drawer was empty! Figuring she must have placed them in one of the drawers below I open up the next one. No clothes! No clothes in any of them! And no clothes on the floor either! So I walked to Livs room thinking maybe she decided to take them in there....nope! I'm dumbfounded at this point! I am looking all over the upstairs and I called for the girls and all I got was a typical "I dunno know!" "Sidney did it!" Etc Etc! No one is fessing up and no one is telling me where they are!!! Finally I just shuffled them off to bed!
Then this morning, I went back upstairs to continue my search. Still nothing! So I go get a basket of clean laundry, bring it upstairs and I am racking my brain the whole time! I decided that while I was up there that I would dust. So I am dusting a cabinet that sits in the upstairs hallway and I notice that the doors on it are slightly propped open. I open one and TA-DA!!!!! There is the entire dresser of clothes stuffed into the bottom of the cabinet! Don't know why I didn't think to look there last night!
The best part is that while I'm bending down opening all 3 doors to the cabinet the girls start walking upstairs and they catch sight of me through the banister! They stopped dead in their tracks, turned around and tried to quickly and quietly run back downstairs! The minute I told them to STOP they screamed and took off running all the while Livi yelling "It wasn't me...it was Sidney!" I had to laugh!!! But then they had to help put them all back! Then Liv says, "Momma, I'm sorry for telling Sidney to put those in there! She should not listen to me! " STINKERS!!!!!!
Life is crazy but its always a blessing!
Mom, Momma, Mommy~
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Who's Your Plumber Now?!?!
The other morning I was dutifully loading the dishes into the dishwasher and of course I had the garbage disposal going (it is my favorite appliance by the way!) and as I was rinsing and loading I noticed that the disposal had clogged! So....I got out my sink plunger, capped off the drain on the other side of the sink and went to plunging! It took a while but I was oh so proud of myself when I (ALL ON MY OWN) unclogged that sink! Didn't have to say "honey....I'm sorry but I clogged the garbage disposal......AGAIN! Can you fix it for me!?!" Nope did all by myself! Now the only reason I knew what to do was because I clog this thing every couple of months and Scott has to fix it for me so I've watched enough to just do it now! But it made me remember the very first time I clogged it and it is a story that I will never ever forget! Not funny at the time but hilarious now! It goes like this:
One fall night I was peeling and slicing veggies to throw in my crockpot before going to work the next day. As I finished I started the garbage disposal and started stuffing down the peels! Scott looked over and told me that I might be shoving too much in there but my reply was, "its a garbage disposal, this is what its made to do!" Well............it might be made to "dispose" of the extras off our plates but apparently ours isn't industrial strength because it clogged. It clogged good! We plunged it for at least 2 hours with no success which then lead Scott into Lowes to buy some sort of drain snake thing. He got home, wound this "snake" down the pipe and let it eat. Still nothing! At this point I was suggesting that we call my father in law who in fact is a plumber. Scott refused. He kept at it. All the while I'm in his ear still forcing the issue of calling an actual plumber! Then he tells me to go get a bucket, head downstairs to the basement because there is trap of some sort down there that this garbage disposal is connected with. So I do what he says, uncap the drain and sit there with my bucket. I can hear him plunging and using the snake and a little trickle of water would come into my bucket but still nothing. We had been at this for probably 4 hours now. I'm getting irritated, so is he, mostly because I'm now yelling at him to just call a plumber and me because he won't! So sit there waiting for something to happen and then all of a sudden............Scott yells down and says I'm pretty sure I got it, is there water coming out down there? I say yes and he says well hold the bucket up as close as you can to catch the water that drains. So I do...I get right up in front of that drain, I hear the plunger go down, come out and then all of a sudden a flipping tidal wave of water, food pieces, and God knows what else sprays out all over me!!!!!! Scott comes running down and says....."Whos your plumber now baby!?!?!" He knew exactly what was going to happen!!!! So not only had I clogged the sink, now I had to clean the carpets and myself! To this day I do not underestimate my husbands ability to GIT ER DONE!!!!
One fall night I was peeling and slicing veggies to throw in my crockpot before going to work the next day. As I finished I started the garbage disposal and started stuffing down the peels! Scott looked over and told me that I might be shoving too much in there but my reply was, "its a garbage disposal, this is what its made to do!" Well............it might be made to "dispose" of the extras off our plates but apparently ours isn't industrial strength because it clogged. It clogged good! We plunged it for at least 2 hours with no success which then lead Scott into Lowes to buy some sort of drain snake thing. He got home, wound this "snake" down the pipe and let it eat. Still nothing! At this point I was suggesting that we call my father in law who in fact is a plumber. Scott refused. He kept at it. All the while I'm in his ear still forcing the issue of calling an actual plumber! Then he tells me to go get a bucket, head downstairs to the basement because there is trap of some sort down there that this garbage disposal is connected with. So I do what he says, uncap the drain and sit there with my bucket. I can hear him plunging and using the snake and a little trickle of water would come into my bucket but still nothing. We had been at this for probably 4 hours now. I'm getting irritated, so is he, mostly because I'm now yelling at him to just call a plumber and me because he won't! So sit there waiting for something to happen and then all of a sudden............Scott yells down and says I'm pretty sure I got it, is there water coming out down there? I say yes and he says well hold the bucket up as close as you can to catch the water that drains. So I do...I get right up in front of that drain, I hear the plunger go down, come out and then all of a sudden a flipping tidal wave of water, food pieces, and God knows what else sprays out all over me!!!!!! Scott comes running down and says....."Whos your plumber now baby!?!?!" He knew exactly what was going to happen!!!! So not only had I clogged the sink, now I had to clean the carpets and myself! To this day I do not underestimate my husbands ability to GIT ER DONE!!!!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Pee, Poop and Toots
My kids like most kids are all about the bodily functions! They all think its hysterical when they fart, most especially Sidney who will announce it extremely loudly no matter where we are and who has been known to sit on her brother and "try" to do it! Remember she is only 2! But I swear that never did I think that I would be so "up to my ears" so to speak with all of it! I'm either wiping it, changing it, picking it up off the floor, or scolding someone for using improper manners about it!
For example:
Sidney likes to just take off her diaper and go where she stands or announce as soon as she has gone!
Chase likes to talk about it constantly
Sidney and Livi fight when Liv goes to the bathroom because Sidney wants to "help"
They all think its hysterical
Even the dog poops on the floor from time to time
Livi has fed it to the dog
I catch Chase peeing off the front stoop when I'm not fast enough to open the door for him!
The dog fights for a poopy diaper the same way he would fight for a piece of meat! (GROSS I KNOW)
If one of them hasn't gone poop in 24 hours I'm loading them with fiber~ (who would have thought I would even know when they do or don't!)
They have all peed on me during the night at one point or another
And to top it off: The other day I decided to take a bath and of course, couldn't do this on my own. Here comes Liv and hops on in and about 5 minutes later I smell something. Then I had to ask the question "Liv....did you just pee in here?" She looked at me for a minute and said "Nope". Then she looked up again, smiled and said "I did mama, I peed!" YUCK!!!!!!
So if I have learned anything from becoming a mom its that you never, never, ever say that you/your kids/your spouse won't do this and won't do that because I'll put money on it any day of the week that you sure will!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
For example:
Sidney likes to just take off her diaper and go where she stands or announce as soon as she has gone!
Chase likes to talk about it constantly
Sidney and Livi fight when Liv goes to the bathroom because Sidney wants to "help"
They all think its hysterical
Even the dog poops on the floor from time to time
Livi has fed it to the dog
I catch Chase peeing off the front stoop when I'm not fast enough to open the door for him!
The dog fights for a poopy diaper the same way he would fight for a piece of meat! (GROSS I KNOW)
If one of them hasn't gone poop in 24 hours I'm loading them with fiber~ (who would have thought I would even know when they do or don't!)
They have all peed on me during the night at one point or another
And to top it off: The other day I decided to take a bath and of course, couldn't do this on my own. Here comes Liv and hops on in and about 5 minutes later I smell something. Then I had to ask the question "Liv....did you just pee in here?" She looked at me for a minute and said "Nope". Then she looked up again, smiled and said "I did mama, I peed!" YUCK!!!!!!
So if I have learned anything from becoming a mom its that you never, never, ever say that you/your kids/your spouse won't do this and won't do that because I'll put money on it any day of the week that you sure will!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
A Few Things I Never Thought I Would Do When I Became A Mom
Before I had kids I told myself that I would be THE coolest mom. I wouldn't make things up or bribe my kids to get them to do what I want, I wouldn't be the mom who yells and jumps around at my kids sporting events, I would never say "because I said so", and I WOULD NEVER emberrass them! Well I am here to tell you that not only have I done all of those things, I have done them well! Here are a few examples:
1. I couldn't get the girls to come inside one day after coming home and on the other side of the creek in the tree line some kids were yelling. Liv asked me what that noise was so I told her it was the monkeys that live in the trees and if she didn't come inside right now they would come out and start jumping around! She quickly came inside. Now mind you I had been holding my bladder for quite some time when I said this but still.....just wrong!
2. Sidney was wheeling around a plastic shopping cart at Target and I told her to park it because we were leaving. She immediatley began the stand off with a hand on her hip, the other on the cart, and a firm foot stomp while yelling "NO!" To which I said, "if you leave it there we'll get gum!" Problem solved!
3. Liv was misbehaving the other day and I told her that she wasn't going to have a birthday party if she kept acting like that! We all know that she is going to have a party! No matter what I say!
4. I told the girls that if they didn't pick up their toys that I was going to put them in the trash! Liv says "okay, you can throw them away!" AHHHHH!!! Did I......No! But they did go in a trash bag to the Childrens Foundation! HAHA!
5. I told Chase that if he did his chores the other day without complaining that I would buy him his ipod touch! He did his chores and said "Done mom!" When do I get it!" I said " You misunderstood....I told you I would think about buying you the ipod touch." He didn't appreciate that!
6. Mom, this isn't making any noise! Its not working! Fix it!!! "Oh I'm sorry honey, the batteries must be bad and we don't have any more. We'll have to get some at the store next time we go." But what really happened is that I have taken the batteries out and I did just buy a new pack! TERRIBLE!
And the worst for the month.......................................................
Chase had his first football game the other day and during the game he snapped the ball and took off running! 2 guys were on him, I thought they had him, they didn't and he kept going with 2 more on his heels. I couldn't see because people were all along the sidelines so I started to shuffle my way down the sideline to get a better look but he was running and running fast and I got so excited that I just started running along the side with him right to the end zone!! Then I proceeded to jump up and down!!!! ALOT!!!! How embarrassing for my poor kid!!!! And me!!!!! But then again, Oh well! My kid made a touchdown! A 70 yard touchdown! And it was his first one! So, I will still get excited but I did promise to not do that again! Afterall he wants it to be his touchdown not his and his moms!!!!
So, this is just a few of the things that I have done this month! This doesn't account at all for the rest of my motherly career. And I have to say that if you are reading this and laughing then you have at least done one of these! I still have a lifetime to go! My kids are screwed!!!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
1. I couldn't get the girls to come inside one day after coming home and on the other side of the creek in the tree line some kids were yelling. Liv asked me what that noise was so I told her it was the monkeys that live in the trees and if she didn't come inside right now they would come out and start jumping around! She quickly came inside. Now mind you I had been holding my bladder for quite some time when I said this but still.....just wrong!
2. Sidney was wheeling around a plastic shopping cart at Target and I told her to park it because we were leaving. She immediatley began the stand off with a hand on her hip, the other on the cart, and a firm foot stomp while yelling "NO!" To which I said, "if you leave it there we'll get gum!" Problem solved!
3. Liv was misbehaving the other day and I told her that she wasn't going to have a birthday party if she kept acting like that! We all know that she is going to have a party! No matter what I say!
4. I told the girls that if they didn't pick up their toys that I was going to put them in the trash! Liv says "okay, you can throw them away!" AHHHHH!!! Did I......No! But they did go in a trash bag to the Childrens Foundation! HAHA!
5. I told Chase that if he did his chores the other day without complaining that I would buy him his ipod touch! He did his chores and said "Done mom!" When do I get it!" I said " You misunderstood....I told you I would think about buying you the ipod touch." He didn't appreciate that!
6. Mom, this isn't making any noise! Its not working! Fix it!!! "Oh I'm sorry honey, the batteries must be bad and we don't have any more. We'll have to get some at the store next time we go." But what really happened is that I have taken the batteries out and I did just buy a new pack! TERRIBLE!
And the worst for the month.......................................................
Chase had his first football game the other day and during the game he snapped the ball and took off running! 2 guys were on him, I thought they had him, they didn't and he kept going with 2 more on his heels. I couldn't see because people were all along the sidelines so I started to shuffle my way down the sideline to get a better look but he was running and running fast and I got so excited that I just started running along the side with him right to the end zone!! Then I proceeded to jump up and down!!!! ALOT!!!! How embarrassing for my poor kid!!!! And me!!!!! But then again, Oh well! My kid made a touchdown! A 70 yard touchdown! And it was his first one! So, I will still get excited but I did promise to not do that again! Afterall he wants it to be his touchdown not his and his moms!!!!
So, this is just a few of the things that I have done this month! This doesn't account at all for the rest of my motherly career. And I have to say that if you are reading this and laughing then you have at least done one of these! I still have a lifetime to go! My kids are screwed!!!
Mom, Momma, Mommy
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