Working on Most Laid Back Mother of the Year Award
28 Aug 2007 1 Comment
Here’s Arwyn eating her supper last night with a pillow from my bed, a pillow from her bed, two pillows from the couch, an old cooler and play doh. Everything one might need for a relaxing evening meal on the kitchen floor. She had already set up her little play station with the play doh and cooler and I really didn’t have the heart or energy to make her clean it all up before supper. So, she ate in the middle of the extremely dirty kitchen floor and … nobody died. Sometimes I just have to put my inner OCD-this-shit-drives-me-crazy persona aside and let it be. Kids don’t really give a crap if the kitchen floor is filthy. It was new, it was different, it was exciting and fun. She had fun and ate 80% of her dinner, lying on the pillows and saying, “Feed me like a little baby!” Now, how to prevent this from becoming a nightly ritual…
Real Mom Moment No. 2
18 Jun 2007 Leave a Comment
Real moms let their kid play in the pool even though it is thundering, just so they won’t have to go back inside and watch another gd kid’s movie before naptime.
A Real Moment
29 Mar 2007 Leave a Comment
I saw OMSH had joined the Real Mom ‘movement’ and decided to start my own flickr set celebrating moments of what? Insanity? Ineptitude? Survival?
More times than I’d care to admit, Arwyn enjoys her lunch in front of the computer or the tv. It keeps her busy and quiet for a few minutes so I can enjoy my own meal without the constant stream of “Sit down. Get back in your chair. Don’t do that with your fork. Eat your lunch.” etc, etc. This works as long as it is a game she can do by herself and I don’t have to rescue her.
Today’s Real Moment was brought to you by the letter P and the number 2.
