Omg. I am so tired of cleaning up after you. When did you forget how to put away your toys? You’ve both been so good until the last week or so. I swear, I spent the weekend yelling, “That truck right there! I’m pointing at it! Pick it up and put it in the bucket of cars! No, not the middle of the floor, where are you going, put the truck IN THE BUCKET OF CARS!!!”
Signed, Hoarse
Dear Self:
Buck up. Tomorrow is going to be a 12 hour day or more. You already know it. Plan for it. It’ll be fine.
We have the same children. I cleaned the whole house, top to bottom, then went out to rake leaves. Came back in to find DD2 left a literal trail of clothes and shoes right to the toy area, which she had destroyed. All in like 45 mins.
Your recital was terrible. Your dancers were fine, but the everything else? Suckarufic. Combine this with the owner who I can’t stand, even though we’ve never met? Ugh.
Signed, The awful woman judging a children’s recital so harshly.
PS $115 for a costume for a kindergartener to wear for a 3 minute performance is ridiculous. I don’t care how cute it was. Especially on top of the $240 performance fee.
PPS it’s especially annoying because your location was so convenient.
I’m right there with you. DD1 has this amazing ability not to notice socks on the floor and DD2 has a real talent for “organizing” one bin while her sister does the rest of the cleaning until said sister loses her mind.
I need to get rid of some toys shortly.
Dear self,
Good for you! You’ve stuck to your resumed workout plan for a week and 1 day.
After checking in on Dds babysitting job, I am glad my kids are older than 2 and 3. I forgot how much 2 yr olds love the word no and pretty much pulled out all the bribes.
Solidarity on the ridiculously priced recital costumes for little kids. I'd rather spend $20 on matching leotards and tutus and call it good. I'm glad DD is no longer in dance.
Dear children, Love you to death. But good lord, BACK OFF! I cannot function with one or both of you touching me at all times. You are six. I need personal space. I have stepped on or run into a child more times than I can count this weekend because you are always standing so close to me. I've literally been shutting the bathroom door on your face peeking in and locking it just to breath for a minute alone. Let's move on from this clingy phase, please? Signed, You're Making Me Crazy!
Dear Century Link You have stood me up now twice. I wasted all of Friday the 2nd waiting for you and no show. I waited all of Saturday the 10th again no show. We are now scheduled for this Friday the 16th. You better show! I get I have temp service and clients who have no service get priority but I've been temped for 18 months. Just fix me! I love have quality internet but your customer service sucks Not a happy Homeowner
Dear STBXH, I am secretly reveling in the fact that our kids brought extra stockings to your house and are already plotting about where you will put your tree. I gladly packed that bag for them when they asked. You loathe dealing with holidays, but you're going to have to finally suck it up for your kids' sake. Don't be a Grinch and ignore Christmas like you had originally told me you would. Time for you to learn that it's not all about you! Do something for your kids just because they love it! Signed, Maybe I'll Buy You An Elf
We don't have an elf and they are far too much work for me, so this is purely evil on my part.
I took DD to Hobby Lobby yesterday... she saw the damned elf. And then she said "why are there clowns for Christmas? That's silly!" Sooo.. maybe we make it through another year elf free? Knock on wood.
We don't have an elf and they are far too much work for me, so this is purely evil on my part.
I took DD to Hobby Lobby yesterday... she saw the damned elf. And then she said "why are there clowns for Christmas? That's silly!" Sooo.. maybe we make it through another year elf free? Knock on wood.
My daughters class had an elf. I told her that the elf was a fun thing parents and teachers did, but it was not real. Perhaps not coincidentally, she announced at age 6 that there was no Santa. I would have let it slide except that it was stressing her out and she asked. Would not buy an elf.
Her sister’s class (same age now, same school) has “security cameras to santa” which she believes in cheerfully and enthusiastically.
librarychica, that's where they get you, at school. I was no way no elf. But then the class got an elf. Then it was, an elf comes to everyone's house be ours, so here comes the damn elf. Which means me laying in bed, drifting off to sleep and then jumping up realizing I didn't move the thing. Cue, it flies into the Christmas tree several times because that is what you come up with at bedtime.
I have weird feelings about Santa. My mom was on the phone with DD giving her this whole speil about Santa's naughty list and how he wouldn't give her presents, etc. I know that's the Santa story, but my mom is VERY big about tying presents to behavior and it drives me nuts. (If you don't give me a hug, I'm not going to buy presents type stuff.) My kids may drive me nuts, but they're good kids. They don't need to think they need to be good just to get a present, I just want them to be good people because they're good people.
I have weird feelings about Santa. My mom was on the phone with DD giving her this whole speil about Santa's naughty list and how he wouldn't give her presents, etc. I know that's the Santa story, but my mom is VERY big about tying presents to behavior and it drives me nuts. (If you don't give me a hug, I'm not going to buy presents type stuff.) My kids may drive me nuts, but they're good kids. They don't need to think they need to be good just to get a present, I just want them to be good people because they're good people.
Oh god. I would hit the roof. I’m so sorry. No one demands my kid allow physical contact in any situation. Would she accept that you’re teaching your kids about controlling their own bodies? Or blame it on the pediatrician! My mother will go along with pretty much any physical or emotional strategy if I blame the pediatrician.
The naughty/nice thing drives to crazy too. I’ve deemphasized the Santa myth a lot and it hasn’t seemed to hurt the kids Christmas experience any.
librarychica, my mom doesn't care. I pull the bitch card and tell her she doesn't have to hug, she can high five or shake hands. We only see her a handful of times a year.
TBH, my mom is losing it. She had a 45 minute conversation "with me" and ended it by asking how my foot was... at which point my sister pointed out she was talking to daughter 2, not daughter 3. She also told me she's "only fallen once in the last year" which I know isn't true. She's not lying, she honestly doesn't remember her other falls.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Nov 13, 2018 12:37:58 GMT -5
Related? I accidentally told my kid the Easter bunny isn't real last night.
I was explaining to him why we shouldn't really dress up like Native Americans during Thanksgiving and he said "well we make bunny ears to dress up like the Easter bunny" and I said "well the Easter bunny isn't real..." I then I corrected myself to say he's a magical creature...
No elf at our house, my kids thankfully thought that it was creepy that it watches you. Santa isn't a big deal at our house, he comes and brings you one present. We are fairly religious, and work hard to make Christmas centered around Christ's birth and not material things. So spending time with family, going to church as a family, picking out toys together for Toys for Tots, etc. So while my kids think Santa is cool, he isn't the focus of our Christmas. Also, when DS has said that friend x gets tons of presents from Santa, we've talked about that we only get one, because there are kids out there whose parents can't afford to get them very much, including things that they need (like mittens), which is why I talked with Santa, and he will bring us only one present per kid. This seems to help us. Although my MIL likes to write "from Santa" on all of her gifts, and I had to explain to DS that she just doesn't want to write who they are from.
I should mention that we are not against gifts on the whole, and make a super big deal about birthdays and getting each kid something big. Like DS got a drone this year.