We have just a few more guest posts coming this week. I am finally home from two weeks of wonderful but exhausting vacations where we spent time with my family and with Marc's. We have returned home with fevers (Noah, 102.8) and bronchitis, ME and piles of laundry and filth threatening to actually report themselves to the health department, so, while I nurse us all back to some moderate state of health, I ask that you allow yourself to be entertained today by Aardvark, one of my favorite blogging mothers who never fails to tell it like it is. She's sweet and charming and sarcastic,... just my type. I must also add that it is AARDVARK who will never be mother of the year, I, on the other hand and still in the running seeing as how I failed to pack a change of clothes for Noah and minutes prior to boarding a plane last week I noticed his shirt and pants were soaked from a leaked diaper that I had totally forgotten to change, like, two hours before, and I had to wheel him in a stroller, NAKED, except for a diaper, through the airport terminal at Dulles and buy him a t-shirt that read AIR FORCE ONE SECURITY STAFF. Luckily it totally matched his stripped pastel colored high-water pants that I dug out of the trenches of the diaperbag.
1. Penelope is 10.5 months and I turned her around to face forward in the car. Cast your stones if you must. She has a Britax Marathon Car seat with side impact protection. I drive a van with side curtain airbags. She is fine. Plus now she can see the DVD player with out straining her neck.
2. My kids watch TV. I even use the TV as a babysitter when I need to pee, shower, cook dinner, etc… And if that wasn’t bad enough…I let them watch movies in the van. Brains rotting – check!
3. I have started giving Penelope whole milk. I know she isn’t a year old but frankly…I don’t care. She likes it. I am still nursing her and she eats baby food and table food BUT she also gets whole milk. Oh and she has also had peanut butter. It is amazing she is even alive as I write this.
4. I spank Scout. That’s right. I spank. I use time out and positive reinforcement too but sometimes the only thing that gets her attention is a spanking. I am so sorry if that offends you. I would suggest if you don’t agree… that you not spank your child.
5. I don’t think my children are perfect. In fact, my children can be quite the pain in the ass at times. (They get that from Steve.)
6. Sometimes we eat Pop Tarts for breakfast.
7. There are days I want to just give Scout a cupcake for dinner and send her to bed because it would be easier than arguing about dinner. The only reason I don’t is because Steve is here.
8. I still wish Penelope would take a pacifier. I am fairly certain it would make my life easier.
9. Scout still takes hers to bed and she will 3 in 2 weeks.
10. And probably the biggest reason I will never be Mother of the Year…because I am not sorry for any of these things. Everyone parents their own way and so far my kids don’t suck!
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