The kind that leaves a 10 year-old babysitting while they run to the junior high to pick up 5 teenagers.
The kind that upon arriving back home finds their 2 year-old running around the neighbor's driveway playing with a borrowed dump truck found in said neighbor's garage.
No big brother is in sight. Well the 4 year-old one is, but he's distracted with sidewalk chalk also from the neighbor's garage.
Not only is the 2 year old running around unattended. He's running around unattended like this:
And where was the 10 year-old you ask?
Obediently sitting at the kitchen table doing his homework, mere feet away from the open back door and open mud room door. While the house heater vents were blowing out warm air to compensate for the 44 degree temperatures creeping into the house.
I am slowly yet surely discovering myself to be "that kind" of mother. "The kind" that everyone else tries so hard to avoid becoming, yet somehow for me, I am becoming "that kind" of mother far too easily.
I heard the outside temperature is supposed to be even cooler today.
Good thing I don't have a junior high carpool to drive.
3 comments:
Oh this post makes me laugh! I love the picture of him in his undies with his skin all red from being outside in the cold! haha I'm already doing many things I swore I would never do as a mom. Funny how that works! It was so nice to see you the other night at Sandy's house. That get together was really such a nice thing for me to go to and much needed. I've been thinking about the things mentioned for the last few days and mulling things over in my head. I really think every mom should go to things like that because it's so refreshing and good to know that there are other people out there who feel the same way I do!!
That is awesome! Not really, but it did make me laugh, and funny thing is, I had those same thoughts yesterday. I realized I used to secretly ask my nieces and nephews when the last time they had a bath was and then scoff at their answer and think their parents were so neglectful. And here I am ten years later realizing that it has been four days since my 4 year old has had a bath. All the other three have had baths, but she has somehow slipped under the radar. So Yes, I've become the mom I used to promise I'd never be! And there are so many other areas where this happens too. You are a great mom, Tiffany!
I have become "that kind of mother" too. And I have lost all sense of dignity as well. Not only do I do all the things I used to judge other mothers for...but I don't care that I do them. Oh wow. That sounds bad.
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