- taking a shower is the only time you're truly without kids. (Not even bathroom breaks are off limits)
- you consider the pizza sauce a serving of veggies at dinner time.
- the only constant in discipline is the inconsistency of administering discipline.
- you scrape the last of the baby food out of the jar and eat it before throwing the jar away.
- you share YOUR bowl of ice cream with your child, but not before protesting and asking, "Is nothing sacred anymore?!"
- you have ever said, "My child will never do that!" with the eventual and unavoidable end result being that your child has indeed "done that".
- the bottom of your shirt becomes a tissue. (This usually doesn't happen with the 1st or even the 2nd child, but definitely by the 3rd.)
- you lick your fingers and wipe that smudge off your child's face all the while remembering how your mom did that to you and how much you hated it.
- you sometimes throw a tantrum along side your child just to see their reaction, or because you just need to throw a really good tantrum too.
- you nod your head and murmur, "uh huh", "hmmm", or "oh", while pretending to listen when your child is talking to you about some mundane happening, much like your husband does when you talk to him.
These ideas and others popped into my head one night when I could finally let my mind just wander freely. I was in my child-free zone: the shower.
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7 comments:
Kathryn how true how true. You sumed that up perfectly. Thanks for listening to me vent the other day. Love you lots.
So True!! Sometimes I just stand in the shower and think to myself,"finally peace!"
Well I throughly enjoyed that post.. I think it was great... I came up with some more just to add and to think freely as well!
Popsicles become a food staple!
Your favorite television show is a cartoon! What can I say but Max and Ruby, Ruby and Max... I know I need a life!~
You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls...and HE hangs up on YOU!
The closest you get to gourmet cooking is making Rice Krispie treats!
You refuse to flush the toilet in fear it will wake the napping baby!
I know they just need to get used to the sounds in the house but I just can't do it! It is the only time that I get to do the dishes only to have the other two run away from me because I am cleaning!
I would like to know who said having four kids was easy!! I would like some pointers!
Love it! So well put! The shower is my favorite time of the day! It really is the only break we get sometimes.
I love reading your stories, this one is so true!! You should make a poem of it and sell it...all moms would buy it and post it on their fridges:)
Kathryn.
I love and miss you.
This post was awesome.
I had thought you copied this post from an email you received until I read the bottom where it says you came up with them in the shower. The whole thing is so true for me too. I loved the post.
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