Ok - I've been put to a challenge... Scary Mommy over at ScaryMommy.com has challenged us to confess what kind of a scary mommy you really are...
Here are just a few examples...
1) At a school concert and teenage son waves at a cute bubbly girl that he's been trying to get a date with. Her mom wants to meet son before he can date bubbles, so when the girl comes over to say hi and I find out that her mom is here, I say (before I can think), "Son! Go over and meet her so you can ask so and so out on a date!" In front of Bubbles... Son just sat down with me and shook his head as Bubbles went away looking a little scared of me. He's not mad, but just very disappointed in me and says that I can't talk to his friends anymore. And the worse part was, as I was saying it, I felt like I was trying to grab the words and suck them back in, but it didn't work.
2) I only wear whatever makeup I can put on in the 3 miles before the turn off for the interstate. Most days I don't wear makeup at all.
3) I have a bumper sticker on my car that says "My Other Car Was Totaled by my son"
4) I am the mom that leaves scrapbooks of my kids laying around the house for when their girlfriends come over and direct the younger siblings to point out the cute potty pictures of their brother. Oh come on!!! The stickers are well placed!
5) I am the mom who refuses to duck when dropping off the kids at the bus stops and insisted on a kiss at the bus stop from each of them until 8th grade.
6) I am the mom who made her kids do their endangered species report ENTIRELY on their own and saw how many other parents practically did the reports for their kids at the parents night... Seriously?? They know how to imbed pictures in the reports in 3rd grade??
7) I am the mom that will not let her kids date until they're 16 years old.
8) I am the mom that has really embarrassing conversations with her kids. Well - on their part of the conversation it is... I'm fine.
9) I wake the kids up by just turning on the lights. Sometimes...
10) I am the mom who cried for 3 days straight when my son moved out.
11) I am the mom who pushes her kids to get their 4H projects in on time. Even tho they decide at the last minute that they don't want to do it.
12) I am the mom that hovered over their daughter as she struggled to hit the right key on the piano. Just PRESS THE KEY! JUST PRESS IT! My blood pressure went thru the roof.
13) I sewed up a side seam on a shirt that my son deliberately tore because he didn't want to wear it to school and made him wear it anyway.
14) I pick the kids hair styles until 5th grade because by then they're usually paying attention to how they look. So shorter hairstyles until then.
15) I blog about my kids.
I know I have several more examples. But don't want to scare you this close to Halloween.
6 comments:
I love this! I will have to think up examples of all the scary things I do to my kids.
All of these things are funny and sound really normal mommish...if that's a word! : )
I'll be right there with ya when my boys get old enough for me to embarrass em just for breathing.
Hey, about the imbedding the pics in reports? Last year my sons school had 4th graders doing POWER POINT. AAAAHH!
A majority of those I totally agree with, if I haven't done them myself.
I posted something last year about my son and a knife at church and labeled it Scary Mama. I had no idea. Yours are so funny yet somehow ring true in my own life.
Thanks for sharing.
Oh, you are my kind of mom!! I'm already embarrassing my daughter by kissing her at the bus stop, but I do not plan on stopping. She can deal with having a mother who loves her!!
Thanks for the comment! I love the kind of scary mom you are, and I'm taking in a few of these as advise...I still have a couple of years before mine "gets it" as he is only 16 months.
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