Welcome to my blog series! Please come in and sit down, ignore
your
kids, have a cup of coffee and laugh at my life. I'm excited to
bring
you:
Lots
of Littles/Lots of Laughs
For
more LoL/Lol check out Diary of a Zookeeper
by my friend Katy. We're planning/hoping to have a few more mamas join
in with us as their lives settle down a little bit because misery
loves company the more the merrier!
I promised you last week and I (generally, but I do have three small children, you know) keep my promises that this week we'd do something besides introduction-ish questions even though I'm sure you've been beyondterrified thrilled to get a weekly peep show into my brain.
This week our question is "Before you had children, what did you say that you would NEVER do once you were a parent? And what's the verdict now?" lol
The first thing that comes to mind is (unfortunately) something that we're dealing with right now. I've mentioned before that we are dealing with a "baby mutiny" and part of that is due to a Parental Whoops, which I'm pretty sure is a technical term. Something that I swore I'd never do (and am currently doing) goes like this:
"Peanut, come here, buddy!" ---the glorious sound of being ignored---"Peanut! Come here, please." And we devolve from there. "Peanut! Come. Here. Now." -- "I said COME HERE!" --"You need to come here right now." ---"PEANUT, NOW!!"
I'm sure you're all very aware why this is a problem and are shaking your head at my lackluster parenting. I know. I'm shaking my head too. What can I say? Whoops! I will start correcting this tomorrow/today (whatever) is this an up to the minute blog or what? Riveting.
The second thing that I'd said I'd never do is take a child who was old enough to walk into a store/public without shoes (particularly to Walmart because somehow this is always where I saw this). I'm happy to say that to my knowledge I'm good here. My first son may not have owned a pair of shoes until he was 8 months old and I horrified my mother in law, but he was not walking at the time so to mycheap-ass frugal mind, it didn't matter and since my kids have been old enough to toddle and we're out in public they have shoes on their feet. I mean, come on people!
The third thing that I said I'd never do is be a "take your shoes off in my house" kind of a person, but now I am. It's kinda for reducingvacuuming germs, but mostly it's to disarm their feet (giggling at my own puns) of weapons whether used intentionally or not.
I'm sure there are more, but I'm really drawing blanks. Insomnia is not my friend for sleeping or blogging!
Play along with me! No matter how many kids you have or what their ages are (but tell us)! You can either answer in the comments if you don't have a blog or play along on your own blog and leave a comment so we can go over and find your answers. Tell us what you thought you'd never do and if you're doing it or not. If I find some inspiration from you guys I'll update and let you know!
I promised you last week and I (generally, but I do have three small children, you know) keep my promises that this week we'd do something besides introduction-ish questions even though I'm sure you've been beyond
This week our question is "Before you had children, what did you say that you would NEVER do once you were a parent? And what's the verdict now?" lol
The first thing that comes to mind is (unfortunately) something that we're dealing with right now. I've mentioned before that we are dealing with a "baby mutiny" and part of that is due to a Parental Whoops, which I'm pretty sure is a technical term. Something that I swore I'd never do (and am currently doing) goes like this:
"Peanut, come here, buddy!" ---the glorious sound of being ignored---"Peanut! Come here, please." And we devolve from there. "Peanut! Come. Here. Now." -- "I said COME HERE!" --"You need to come here right now." ---"PEANUT, NOW!!"
I'm sure you're all very aware why this is a problem and are shaking your head at my lackluster parenting. I know. I'm shaking my head too. What can I say? Whoops! I will start correcting this tomorrow/today (whatever) is this an up to the minute blog or what? Riveting.
The second thing that I'd said I'd never do is take a child who was old enough to walk into a store/public without shoes (particularly to Walmart because somehow this is always where I saw this). I'm happy to say that to my knowledge I'm good here. My first son may not have owned a pair of shoes until he was 8 months old and I horrified my mother in law, but he was not walking at the time so to my
The third thing that I said I'd never do is be a "take your shoes off in my house" kind of a person, but now I am. It's kinda for reducing
I'm sure there are more, but I'm really drawing blanks. Insomnia is not my friend for sleeping or blogging!
Play along with me! No matter how many kids you have or what their ages are (but tell us)! You can either answer in the comments if you don't have a blog or play along on your own blog and leave a comment so we can go over and find your answers. Tell us what you thought you'd never do and if you're doing it or not. If I find some inspiration from you guys I'll update and let you know!
Too funny--I made the same commitment about shoes in public. :-) I almost had to break my rule when we went to Niagara Falls b/c my husband loaded the kids in the van for me, we locked ourselves out of the house (NOT on purpose...), and then as I backed out of the driveway I turned around and realized he had put them in the van w/o shoes. Nice. HIS plan A was to drive to Wal-Mart and buy them new shoes. Fortunately we found a way to get in the house and retrieve their shoes for the trip. :-)
ReplyDeleteI must not have had much forethought about parenting because I can't seem to remember any specific things I said I wouldn't do, or would do, for that matter. I just know that bratty behavior used to drive me nuts and I thought I would be pretty strict in parenting. But now I realize that what I used to think of as bratty behavior is more likely just a behavior with a good or bad reason behind it and it usually starts with me slacking off somewhere along the line. And I found out I am not strict at all.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the next LOL question should be, what did you say you would never do and stuck to it? That's a little easier for me to remember for some reason :)
"disarm their feet"
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT.
"I'll never let my kids eat in the car" ..... psshhaaa, right. I was so stupid. I underestimated their powers of loudness, and my desire to make the crying stop, at all costs.
ReplyDeleteI know this was forever ago but I just had to add in :) before I had kids I said I would never "spoil" them so much as to cut crusts off break or peel apples...well now I have 8 and 1 yr olds and have gone so far as to rinse scrambled eggs under running water to get the salt and pepper off lol sigh oh those bitter words
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