Portrait of Fun, Parenting
1. Don't believe you'll exercise and drop the weight when your six weeks recovery time is up. You'll be too exhausted to get up off the couch and your crying baby will want to be held all the time. Though if you put on a infant carrier, he makes a great weight for squats!
2. Infants don't know the difference between 1 am and 1 pm and just when you think you're about to lose your mind, they'll start sleeping through the night!
3. No matter how many times you discipline (spank) your two year old, he'll keep getting out of his bed at nap time and when his nap time is over, YOU'LL NEED A NAP! Connection BEFORE correction!
4. An 18-month-old won't remember the expensive Disneyland Trip when he grows up, no matter how many life-size characters you meet, but the photos you take will make him think he remembers and will be priceless!!!
5. What's a cute habit at two (like "shaking your booty") isn't necessarily cute to your child's teacher at preschool!
6. When you're eight months pregnant, television and the computer are great babysitters, and won't turn your kids into vegetables even if they watch and play for three hours while you take a nap. And yes, two and a half year olds know how to change computer CDs.
7.Lock up all your toddler's crayons and markers. It's okay to stifle their creativity, especially if it'll save you hours of work and hundreds of dollars.
8. It's okay to let your child crawl in bed with you in the middle of the night, even if there's no thunderstorm.
9. Start that scrapbook NOW!!!! When the kids muliply and photos pile up, and you decide to scrapbook you WILL totally have forgetten which kid is which.
10. Never leave home without a change of clothes for your kids, antibacterial soap and a walmart sack!
4 comments:
Oh I can so relate to the crayon one - my kids were quite one day for more than 2 minutes. I sneaked into the living room to find their masterpiece on two of our walls. Those Magic Erasers work pretty good (do a test area first to see if it ruins your paint).
The scrapbooking tip is a good one! I wish I would have just did a little each month or so...now I am catching up on years...and years...and years. Luckly I have a boy and girl so I can make out who is who :)
Excellent list! I thought that I'd commented when you posted, but apparently I just read, enjoyed and went away silently.
This was so good, especially number 9, that is truth there. I did pretty good with #1, and have NOTHING for #2 which in turn made me guilty enough to do better by #3. Argh. My poor middle child. At least she doesn't look like the other two so I should be able to pick out who's who!
Gina, do you use Windows Live Writer? I just posted about it today it is AWESOME...such a great time-saver. I'm thinking it would be a good one to blog about at Writer...Interrupted since we homeschooling moms are all about saving time!
Gina, this is hilarious! I am so guilty on the scrapbooking. I will be frantically throwing photos into albums on my kids' graduation days. How sad is that?
I'm glad you've made a decision about school...keep me posted on how it goes. He's going to love it and do great!
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