My kids just LOVE their vegetables. They hate watching TV and both learned sign language at 8 months. NOT.
Being a mom is hard and it's even harder when we think everyone else is perfect. So I wanted to do my five little confessions about my parenting.
1. I think ignoring my children occasionally helps foster their independence and creativity. When I'm around they don't play as well, they climb on me and they whine. When I'm ignoring them (maybe doing laundry, maybe playing a game on the iPad) they interact well, they make up their own songs and they play independently!
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| Playing together, making a mess, while I ignore them to make dinner. Don't worry, I kept them away from the cleaners. |
2. Today I bought Olivia bubble gum even though I knew she would swallow it.
3. We have watched Frozen every day for a week.
4. I have a favorite child. It's just not the same one every day ;)
5. I know I need to put lotion on my babies but I worry that they will be cold if I do it before bed and I never remember to do it in the morning. So dry skin all around (because when do I have time for that? I get less than five minutes for a shower!)
I know there are worse things I do, but I can't remember right now and I haven't been writing them down all month like I should have!! So I'm going to commit to next months theme right now so I can start jotting down ideas when I have them. Next month I'm going to confess to you about my make up and beauty routine. Or lack there of. . .
I hope you wrote your confessions to link up!!!
Awww love your confessions! I'm not a Mumsie but I have noticed when I babysit or am around my little cousins all day that the less I interact with them the more they entertain themselves. And I love that you have a favorite kid ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the word Mumsie. Incorporating that into daily conversation is the new goal. :)
DeleteI feel the same way, I feel some days I get along better with one of my kids and other days the other kid. Maybe it just depends on which one is being the most well behaved for the day. ;) I do think Nathan's personality is more similar to mine. My kids are 5 and 7 and they STILL swallow their bubble gum. I have told them that it never digests in their belly and they STILL swallow it. lol!
ReplyDeleteHaha! I figure if she swallows it there's less chance of us having to cut out a chunk of her hair!
DeleteI feel the same about the first one for sure!! Although it usually ends up in the dogs water being dumped out and a big mess! I am super glad my kid isn't old enough to jump on the Frozen train!! Phew!
ReplyDeleteI actually don't mind Frozen. . . . . . . . yet.
DeleteLove your confessions! It's refreshing because it seems like so many women try to portray their life as perfect sometimes! It can make you feel so bad about yourself! You sound like a great mom!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kaara! If I wanted to portray my life as perfect, I wouldn't have anything to blog about :)
Deletelove this! that's why i started doing 5 little confessions a while ago. no one is perfect so pretending to be in blogland is just exhausting. i always knew parents had a favorite child:)
ReplyDeleteHahaha, it does change on the regular, so I'm not totally sure if it counts :)
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