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Hello Everyone!
To start my part of the blog is an excerpt from an email I sent to Heather, which she was so tickled with she asked me to post it word for word.  Some history:  I work at Barnes & Noble and observe lots of moms with kids.
…yesterday every single kid that came into the [...]

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1.  I often respond to my son’s whining with an exasperated, “What?!!”
2.  A common lunchtime for my child involves microwaved fish-sticks or chicken nuggets drowned in ketchup, some macaroni and cheese, and maybe a pile of blueberries or some other fruit to counter the nutritional value of the rest of it.  Frozen peas if he’s up [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 secret in the world and if we all knew what it was really like well that pretty [...]

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We almost always eat dinner in front of the TV.

My husband is the one that gets up with my daughter at night. On the rare nights when I actually wake up to hear her crying, I sometimes pretend to be asleep. I justify this by telling myself that I’m waiting to see if she’ll [...]

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