I have a pretty high tolerance - wait. No, I don't. Maybe it's because I got a rush from being the ultimate good kid growing up, while my brother consistently got in trouble for pretending to be Evel Kinevel (or however the hell you spell his name). Maybe I'm a big chickenshit. Maybe my anxiety levels are through the roof without my kids attempting to kill themselves all in the name of fun. Maybe I'm consistently pissy because my freshly vacuumed carpet is now full of smashed strawberry cereal bar and shredded leaves that came in on the dog and why wouldn't we shred them and we just realized that I shoved the entertainment center over the vent so now our favorite game of taking the vent off and throwing shit down it is over so we're screaming and my leg is covered with spit because the boy is in a licking phase and all he wants to eat is spaghetti and the girl is a snotty preteen who just needs to get her period already so we can have some relief around here and the Hubs is quick to point out that the boy needs his diaper changed because he stinks but hey there's Battlefield 3 to be played rather than changing a diaper and he thinks he gets a free get out of jail card because he went to bed at 730 so he was up at 5 and had coffee made before I woke up. And that was the longest run on sentence in history. And I have no idea what I was originally talking about because oh look! Something shiny!
I guess what I initially tried to say is I'm not a fan of my kids bleeding and crying unnecessarily. I don't enjoy trips to the emergency room. I don't enjoy bathing preteens who wear casts, as I've previously mentioned. Does this make me a big boring jerk? Probably. In my defense, I do let a lot slide, but I have limits. Unlike anyone else I live with.
In other news, we broke it to the eldest that there is no Santa, Easter Bunny, or Tooth Fairy. This wasn't planned, but after she started talking about how "We need to get Santa a gift because he's given so much to us" and I swallowed down the vomit from that sickenly sweet and completely false statement, we decided it was necessary. After she called us liars, she took it rather well. Especially after we threw her inability to tell the truth about mundane things such as brushing her teeth in her face. Parents - 1, Kid - ZERO. Man, that felt good.
Don't feel bad, I'm the same way...I would wrap both of my kids in bubble wrap if I wasn't so afraid they would suffocate.
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OMG, you killed Santa Claus!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteHow old is your daughter again? It was probably time. What I would worry about would be that she gets pissed at you for something and tells your son. Beware of that.
I am totally mean mommy. I am always the one who kills the fun. "No running in the house . . . don't pick up your brother . . . no throwing food . . . no jumping off the couch . . ." I am entirely no fun at all. But like you I'd rather not spend my evenings in the ER. So I think we're all good. We can be no fun meanies together!
Paula, I KNOW. We had a fall when Quinn was 7 weeks old, and it still haunts me. In fact, I blame his being a slow walker and talker on myself because of it. But, since he's a boy, he's made out of elastic, I think. The girl is a little more fragile, and could stand to be toughened up a bit, but still...
ReplyDeleteWG, thanks!! I hope I don't bore you with my incessant yammering about things that don't really matter. :)
Misty - I told you I was a fun killer!!!! She's 10, so it was time, and REALLY - who buys Santa stuff? NO ONE. That fat bastard has elves to make shit for him, so I'm pretty sure he's good, kid. I threatened her with keeping receipts in order to return stuff if she told. I think she was more surprised that I was going to keep receipts than anything. lol Yay for the Mean Mom Club! (Like The Babysitters Club, but BETTER.)