Recently there was a not responsive breezy "omigahhhhh I totes didn't experience that postpartum" about breastfeeding or weight loss or something that also had me make a checkmark on my spreadsheet.
I said I find the whole thing ridiculously pretentious.
"An ounce of pretention's worth a pound of manure." ~ The Poet Laureate of Dogwood Lane (I watched this twice this weekend)
well ok then.
The nursery is beautiful. The blog is a lifestyle blog. That's kind of the idea of that genre. If it was about being normal, and scraping together a yoga pant outfit to run to the bus stop or Target, it would be called Facebook.
The nursery is beautiful. I never understood the whole "don't have a fancy nursery" thing. My child sleeps in there and plays in it for maybe 30 mins before bedtime so there aren't many opportunities for her to smear peanut butter on the walls. There are white curtains and a white glider...two years later, all still in nearly perfect condition.
and btw, some peoples' coping skill is to find neatness and order. that's how i coped with sleep deprivation and baby blues. i'm sure i'm not alone. having the house or myself be a complete mess did not help my anxiety. not only that, but like rach, i had plenty of TIME (which is key).
so, i am lol @ how so many of you seem to think she is unrealistic. maybe she's just more organized than you!
When I was on maternity leave, I was extremely organized. I had a fairly easy baby and she slept a LOT. Every morning, instead of putting the dishes away when I emptied the dishwasher, I just set the table again for dinner that evening. Because I knew that was my peaceful time of the day. Late afternoon always got a bit crazy because DD was much needier then. So as long as you dropped by my house at 11am, I always lookd like I was waiting for my photo shoot for my food blog. Fresh flowers on the table and everything.
if you dropped by at 7pm,it looked like a battle zone because by then, I was DONE.
But for a few glorious hours every day, I could have pulled off the great fake out.
The nursery is beautiful. I never understood the whole "don't have a fancy nursery" thing. My child sleeps in there and plays in it for maybe 30 mins before bedtime so there aren't many opportunities for her to smear peanut butter on the walls. There are white curtains and a white glider...two years later, all still in nearly perfect condition.
The nursery is beautiful. I never understood the whole "don't have a fancy nursery" thing. My child sleeps in there and plays in it for maybe 30 mins before bedtime so there aren't many opportunities for her to smear peanut butter on the walls. There are white curtains and a white glider...two years later, all still in nearly perfect condition.
You are more than welcome to come to my home and visually inspect if yourself
The nursery is beautiful. I never understood the whole "don't have a fancy nursery" thing. My child sleeps in there and plays in it for maybe 30 mins before bedtime so there aren't many opportunities for her to smear peanut butter on the walls. There are white curtains and a white glider...two years later, all still in nearly perfect condition.
you have one child, yes?
Who is still confined to her crib?
Revisit this when she's not a solid napper, you're THRILLED that you can put her in her room awake for a nap and trust that she'll play for a bit, and then go to sleep/have quiet time, not confined to a crib, and has access to any of the following: diaper cream, baby powder, poop, vaseline, toothpaste, crayons.
Please keep in mind access will be covertly obtained on her part.
My kids aren't feral, but they are kids, and kids can be sneaky little shits sometimes who do things you never imagined would ever happen. Until they do.
Dude, where are the diapers and the wipes and the mounds of clothes and her yoga pants and nursing tanks? Why does she have makeup on and look rested. All of this is fake.
I got my makeup professionally done for my newborn photos (and all family photos since). I mean I wore a sweater not a pretty dress BUT I wanted to make sure I liked the way I looked in the pictures ha ha.
I'm just saying that if you have a toddler and your house is "pristine" you are doing parenting wrong. Let the kids live a little.
Note - I said "pristine" not "clean and organized". There is a difference.
i guess there is a dfifference. but what if my house is both prinstine and clean and organized? i don't really understand the distinction, i guess.
i think if you think that kids can't 'live a little' while a house isn't a complete disaster, then YOU are doing parenting/homemaking/life wrong. don't hate those of us who are nailing it every day.
I'm just saying that if you have a toddler and your house is "pristine" you are doing parenting wrong. Let the kids live a little.
Note - I said "pristine" not "clean and organized". There is a difference.
i guess there is a dfifference. but what if my house is both prinstine and clean and organized? i don't really understand the distinction, i guess.
i think if you think that kids can't 'live a little' while a house isn't a complete disaster, then YOU are doing parenting/homemaking/life wrong. don't hate those of us who are nailing it every day.
Lol. My house is never a complete disaster. Never.
But I have two small kids. It's never pristine. Because they live there. And play there. Their presence is in my house.
The only time it is pristine is every other Friday before we get home and after the housecleaners come. The rest of the time it is a clean, organized, lived in home with a puzzle on the playroom floor and some kids flip flops by the front door.
To say that people's homes should look like this nursery and if they don't it's lacking, speaks exactly to the point that dickmove said upthread.