Dear Kate and Kiki,
There's a few things I've got to get off of my chest.
1. Kate, you know when color me a picture, or make me a Valentine, or wrap me a present, and I say, "Thank you so much! I'm going to put that someplace special!" The special place of which I speak is actually the trash can. Most of the time, anyway. I have saved the truly "special" things, but if I were to hang on to every scrap and bit of paper you presented me with our house would be overrun.
2. Kiki, when you say, "Spongebob" or "Powder" or "Flip Flops" or "Grandpa" those all sound identical to me. I'm taking a wild stab at an appropriate response every time you say, "Bah-bah."
3. To both of you: Your college funds aren't worth @#$% right now. I blame the economy, but truth be told their combined value is somewhat more than a pound of spaghetti and somewhat less than the value of Mommy's shoe collection. Let's pray for economic recovery or you two are on your own.
4. I'm trying to be cool, but two outfits a day is completely unnecessary. Every time one of you emerges from your bedroom with a different set of clothes my blood pressure goes up a couple of points.
5. I blame you both for the state of my mid-section.
6. At the store when you want a toy, and I say, "I don't have that much money," well, that's a total lie. I just don't want anymore crap around the house.
7. I wish I could throw all your toys away. Every single one.
8. I DO have a favorite. Just not the same one all the time.
9. Kiki, it's not your imagination. I HAVE been buying the cheapest diapers ever in order to back door you into potty training.
That feels better.
Mona 5th Ward primary families
9 months ago
8 comments:
GOOD FOR YOU!!! You've said what we all want to. One day they will read that and cry...a few years later (after they've had kids) they'll laugh!
Kudos to you for having the guts to post that last picture. That'a a gem!
I love it! Brutal honesty, its what we all want, right?
I particularly like the comments about the stuff they make....hum...we must be related. I only keep a few things and sneak the rest in the round file.
I can't understand David either...
Your girls are going to love this post when they grow up. I love finding out the truth about my childhood. Like the time Santa left a Cabbage Patch doll in the middle of my Christmas pile and Beau thought it was for him. We got into a big fight over it. The best part was my mom and dad kept saying, what would Santa do? It's almost as good as WWJD? Of course, I knew what Santa would do, he'd smack his brother in the head--HARD--and tell him boys do not play with dolls. As an adult, I have asked my mom repeatedly why she didn't tell the truth back then--that the doll was intended for me. Unfortunately, she said Christmas always wore her out and she put the doll in the wrong spot. She hoped Beau and I could resolve the issue on our own. Hilarious. I'm really not doing the story justice and now my comment has turned into a wannabe post. I guess that's what I get for being a lazy blogger. Needless to say, I enjoyed your True Confessions.
Loved having lunch with you and the kids today. They are so darling and growing. You are such a great mom. Just watching you and all my girls brings so many of our own experiences back to life. Love you. Auntie R
I can't stand piles of paper either and also "file" most things. The worst is when they ask where is that paper I gave you and then they go into great detail describing all the painstaking work they went to for your sake. That's the worst feeling, maybe similar to what I feel when they announce they don't like the meal I spent three hours making... What goes around comes around I suppose. The joys of motherhood.
Now that feel better I bet! You'll find sleeping much easier now!
Laughing my head off now! I just spent an hour catching up on Hatch Adventures and this was a great finale. Several years ago, Brady came home from school, sharply unzipped his backpack, pulled out his daily schoolwork, then instead of giving it to me....he marched to the trash can and angrily chucked it all. When I inquired about it, he said, "That's what you do with it!" He had apparently spotted one of his gems in the trash the day before. I still don't know if he's forgiven me, but my file drawer became MUCH deeper after that. The kids and I are at moms for a couple weeks. We'd love to see you guys!
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