Mother’s Day is a glorious day to honor mom and truly appreciate all she contributes to the family and to thank her for her hard word and undying love… yeah, right! In my house, it’s an excuse to NOT be a mom for a day.
On MY day, I don’t want to wake up at 6 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Confessions of a Bad Mom’
May 11, 2009
Un-Mother’s Day
April 27, 2009
Child-free No More
My child-free weekend ended in an explosion of chaos. No, nothing extraordinary happened, chaos is the normal state of life when the whole family is home. My quiet was shattered the minute Sean pulled into the driveway and the dog started barking. I met the posse in the driveway and Emma barrelled into my arms [...]
April 25, 2009
Child-free Weekend
I unexpectedly got a child-free weekend this weekend when my husband misunderstood my suggestion that I take the kids to his parents’ house while he’s out of town. I meant that I’d take them to visit their grandparents and then come home — kids and me together. He interpreted it as me dropping them off [...]
April 18, 2009
Oh Yuck!
I’ve been trying to get Emma into finger-painting. Kids are supposed to love finger-paints, it’s a staple of childhood, right? But no, my child hates finger-painting. She doesn’t like her hands getting “icky.” And I realized that she gets it from me.
I hate being icky too. Nothing grosses me out more than sticky hands on [...]
March 29, 2009
Keep It Simple, Stupid
K.I.S.S — Keep it simple, stupid. It’s a good rule to live by. But easier said than done.
Yesterday was a gorgeous spring day, one I had been looking forward to since it first appeared on the 10-day forecast. I hate being cold (I blame 15 years of living in fog for my aversion to cold [...]
March 27, 2009
Playdates
Before I became a mom, I kind of scoffed at the idea of playdates. They seemed so very “Desperate Housewives” to me, I don’t know why. They seemed so contrived. But lately I’ve come to love them because they’re the one situation in which I can stop worrying about what others think of my children [...]
February 19, 2009
How Dare He Get Sick!
I have a confession. I got mad at my husband yesterday for being sick. Yes, I’m a terrible person.
He’s fighting a terrible cold, and he never gets colds so when this one knocked him out, I knew it was serious. But his timing is terrible, and I actually got mad at him for coming home [...]
