Experienced Bad Mom

Not Just a Bad Mom, But an Experienced Bad Mom

Sanitation Engineer?

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Sydney has really taken to checking the cat’s litter box every day. “Oooo,” she squealed this morning. “He’s poopy!” She holds the plastic bag while I scoop the poop and pee chunks out of the litter box. After about 4 clumps were in the bag this morning, she shouted, “Look! It’s a party!” How could [Read More]

Poor second child

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That’s it. I really suck at motherhood. I lost the Post-it from Sydney’s 3 year checkup with all her vital information on it. You know, her height and weight and what percentile she is. Her baby book needs this stuff, folks! I thought about leaving her baby book blank for the 3 year slot. Just [Read More]

Manners Time

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Perfect moms raise perfect children with perfect manners. Bad moms try their best. I think we’re getting a handle of “Please”, “Thank you”, and “Excuse me” around here. I’ve also stressed to my body-part lovin’ kids that we should say “toot” instead of “fart”. So far, so good, I thought. But the other day Sydney [Read More]

My Blueberry Thrill

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First, let me wish both my blog readers a happy 2010! Second, I am thankful that the children I am raising via my poor parenting skills seem relatively unscathed by 2009 (swear words, potty words and a few other misadventures aside!) I’ll start 2010 with a recent tale from the dinette. Will was eating his [Read More]

With thanks

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We were saying grace before our meal the other night. Chad and I asked the kids to say what they were thankful for. Will said, “Nothing.” Chad got irritated and asked him again. “Nothing!” Before WWIII broke out between Will and Chad, I turned to Sydney and asked her what she was thankful for. She [Read More]

The Potty Book

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Today is the last school day before a 2-week Christmas/Winter break! I’d like to thank the archaic school system for giving the kids two weeks off when pretty much all of their parents work outside the home these days, and don’t have two weeks off. I digress. I signed up to read a holiday story [Read More]

Is this a bad word?

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Yesterday in the car Will said, “Darn it!” Then he asked me, “Is darn it a bad word?” “No.” Then I heard him struggle with another potentially bad word. “Frick, frick, frickin…” To which Sydney, age 3, chimed in “It’s fuc****.” I wanted to crawl under the driver’s seat!

Sydney and the Giant Toot

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Last week I had the pleasure of being a single mom while Chad was on a business trip. One of the highlights was taking Will to his Scout Pack meeting and dragging Sydney along. She was pretty good. I brought some toys she could play with and sometimes the first thru fourth grade boys did [Read More]

Celebrity “Bad” Mom of the Month

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I would like to thank actress Rachel Weisz for her candor about mommyhood in the December 2009 issue of Redbook magazine. Rachel is mom to a 3-year-old son. She comments: I think there is sometimes too much pressure on us to be perfect moms, to be empathetic and loving all the time. I feel like [Read More]

Good Moms buy toys, not Christmas cards

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Update: I ordered these cards on Wednesday and got them Saturday. They look great! This was a lot faster than I expected, too. Now if some magical cabana boy would show up at my house and address all the envelopes. He could clean my house while he was at it, too! Both of my blog [Read More]

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