Comments on: A Letter to my Pregnant, Child-Less Self…

By: Kayla

Kayla — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:23:04 +0000

Just about died laughing! This was great and exactly what I needed this morning! Many Thanks!

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:22:12 +0000

And you will love every minute of it. Enjoy these times, it goes by so fast and then they are grown and on their own. Believe me, enjoy every blessed second of it. You will miss it someday

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:13:34 +0000

Thanks for the laughs (I just read it again months later). I am sending this to my pregnant friends.
The honesty is SO refreshing. The second any one of starts to think we’re a “super mom”, you know they’ve “missed the boat.” Parenting is the hardest and most rewarding job in the world, whether you’re a stay at home or “working” parent (in quotations because all parents are constantly working, outside the home or not). I’ve done both, and I must stay working full time and making time for kids is the juggling act of the century (hugs to all parents doing it now!). If parenting is easy, then you’re not doing it right!

By: Kyri

Kyri — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:59:42 +0000

LOL! This made my day instantly! You are so right about thinking you know everything about parenting before you have your baby! I thought that after reading hundreds of books and talking to my mother and grandmother that I was so well educated in the line of parenting, that I could do it with my eyes closed! Boy, was I wrong. Especially being a young mother at the age of 18. My boyfriend and I have been in the constant battle of keeping our daughter in bed at night and keeping things that shouldn’t be in her mouth, out of her mouth! Our little girl just started walking and is getting into literally everything she can possibly reach! She also finds enjoyment in terrorizing my poor cat. Fortunately, my cat tolerates her fur and tail pulling! And after reading some of the comments about their children spilling things on the floor…Boy I have a fun story. My daughter, Talia, and I were on our way to my Aunt’s house to visit the farm and see all the horses. The minute Talia set foot on her property she got all excited and started into a fit of giggles and smiles. We entered the barn where all the horses were at and she just glowed. I set her down so she could walk around (all the stall doors were closed so she couldn’t get in with the horses). I turn my back for one second and I hear an “ooops”. I turn around and find Talia covered in water with oats and hay… She managed to tip over a bucket of water that used to be in one of the horses stalls, so it had left over oats and hay in it. She was soaked and smelled, but she was giggling about the whole thing! After that I had her give her Aunt a big ole’ smelly hug!

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:33:35 +0000

This makes me never want kids…

By: Anne Hockley

Anne Hockley — Sat, 04 May 2013 16:55:01 +0000

I had a horrid cold one day and took a Benadryl. Fell asleep on the couch. I woke up to my daughter with no hair. She had cut it all off, and I mean off. It was, of course, school picture day. We called her Spike for months.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:53:36 +0000

My 2nd is 4 weeks old, and we rented 2 movies from Redbox to watch on our 2nd night in the hospital. Damn DVD player broke and maintenance came to fix it. I felt a *teeny* bit embarrassed that here we were with a brand new baby…but seriously, we really wanted to watch Argo and the 3-year-old is such a PIA at the moment, we figured what the hell.

By: fairyrocks

fairyrocks — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:38:11 +0000

Thanks for this, {from a sometimes bitter battle scared mother of 4}
Too funny and oh so true!!
Now write one about how rude and judgemental
the youth of the western world are to the elderly.

By: Manticore

Manticore — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:52:23 +0000

Thanks, this goes in the folder I keep for all the reasons I never want kids.

By: Ruth Aviles

Ruth Aviles — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 07:50:47 +0000

Oh that was me, every last word. I only have one little angel though-_- How the hell did my mom do it with 6!?! Yup I was NEVER going to put my child in front of the television (so that i can finish cooking dinner without him chucking his Legos in my soup) , oh and i was NEVER EVER going to allow him to scream bloody murder (just because) in the checkout line while everyone looked at me in disbelief as i firmly clamped my hand over his mouth until i finished paying (with my awesome one handed mom skills) and calmly left the store.