We want your true confessions!
Every mom needs to know she’s not the only one who tells her kid to wipe his boogers on his jeans when she’s fresh out of Kleenex. It’s your turn to air the dirty laundry you’re often too ashamed to speak about, but, true to get born style, we think your truth will liberate you and others.
Post your own top ten here!
1. I really would rather stay in bed and read than get up at 5:30 to feed my kids cold cereal.
2. I have raised whiny selfish kids, but I think they are happy.
3.Motherhood is the biggest kept sectret in the world and if we all knew what it was really like well that pretty much says it.
4.My husband works hard at his his job , but hardly works at home
5. Doea cereal count as dinner?
6. I would love to travel europe again, bymyself.
7.Who are we doing this for?
8. being a stay at home mom is the hardest thing i have ever done in my life!
9. I am a slacker mom, and i am OK with it
10.I love my kids with all of my heart and soul, but damn this is hard!
Teresa Soltis
1. I turn the radio up in the car really loud so I don’t have to hear my kids talk.
2. I tell my kids I have homework so I can sit at the computer and eat my dinner.
3. I havn’t mopped my kitchen for over a month
4. I tell my kids food is spicy just so I don’t have to share.
5. I make brownies, give the kids one, and eat the rest of the pan myself.
6. Some times I get the girls out of bed and bring them to mine so I don’t have to sleep alone.
7. I give in to whining.
8. I fantasize about life without children, even though there is no way I would give them up.
9. I don’t remember the last time I paid a bill by the due date.
10. I have left dishwater sitting in the sink for atleast one full day.
1. I don’t brush my kids’ teeth every single night
2. I will give in and give them a lollipop at 10 am on Saturday morning if they will please please stop whining
3. On days they get a lollipop at 10 am I DO brush their teeth
4. Some nights I turn on Tom & Jerry and tell them I’m going to go into the kitchen to cook dinner but I really make mac&cheese and give myself a few minutes alone in the kitchen. A fat glass of wine is usually included on these quiet kitchen times
5. I pack lunch for myself every single day and rarely buy myself anything so I can hire a cleaning woman every 2 weeks
6. I never scrub the floor or the toilet or the bathroom counters (see point 5)
7. I do make my own bread and I do keep the children high-fructose-corn-syrup free
8. I stay up way too late most nights so I have me time and then am a grump to the kids in the morning
9. I waited all my life to have 2 beautiful kids (i’m in my 40s) but often think about bedtime as soon as I wake up
10. I think my children and my experience with motherhood is unique (I know it’s a universal truth)
1. I would rather read my blog rolls than play with my boys – most days.
2. My son is having a hard time understanding that he’s not suppose to wet his pants at night. I blame myself. I would rather stay in bed ½ hour longer than get up when I hear him, in order to rush him to the potty. (He’s only 2, so I guess I still have time.)
3. On more days than most, I let the boys watch TV in the morning just so I can get my work done around the house.
4. My husband works hard at work 5 days a week, 10 – 11 hour days, and I hate it when, on occasion, he doesn’t want to give the boys a bath and I do.
5. My kitchen floor is lucky if it gets cleaned once a month.
6. Sometimes, I like to make my kids cry.
7. We have two happy and healthy boys, but I really want our third to be a girl. We are currently trying.
8. No sooner do I get up in the morning then I’m counting down the hours till nap time.
9. Sometimes, I stay up WAY past my bedtime just so I can be alone, but then I’m cranky in the morning with the kids.
10. I think a lot about my life before I had kids and I sometimes long for those days, but I wouldn’t give up my worst day with them to have even one day without them.
Top Ten True Confessions
1. Everyone older than me with kids tells me that I still have plenty of time…But I wonder…Do I?
2. If you are not sure of how you are as a daughter can you be sure of how you will be as a mother?
3. I despise women giving me parenting advice when their kids are behaving badly in front of me..really?!?
4. I constantly wonder what the “perfect age” is. That age when you know you have achieved something great, you have everything you want, you know who you are, and spiritually you feel at peace. In short- you wake up in the morning rested and know exactly what you have to do that day without one worrying thought.
5. I have no kids..see points 1-4 and 6-10.
6. My older friends with kids say that i’m in the time of my life right now, no strings, having fun, no huge commitments. Except i’m not having much fun, somehow I got strings. Will the parents always look at the non parents with what they miss most…and will non parents look at parents for what they want most?
7. I entertain myself on most nights. Cooking fabulous meals and watching old Jane Austen movies.
8. My greatest fear is that I am stuck in a rut of life that I will be unable to get out of.
9. I have no idea where to go and meet nice educated men who want a conversation and not a lap dance or another round.
10. This “exercise” has been wildly liberating!