Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
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Critters And Crayons is a Mom Blog about kid activities, cooking, literature, community, greener living and any other intriguing and odd things that bring happiness and laughter. It seeks to find humor in the most humorless of parenting situations. There may be some bad around us, but there’s also a lot of good.
I always laugh when I hear someone use the term “Super Mom”. The term has been thrown my way on occasion, which is flattering, but there is no pride in a compliment when you know it’s not true. I want to dispel the myth of the Super Mom. She’s a paragon. A noble aspiration. And a total crock of crap.
I want people to understand, that when mom bloggers like me, or Alpha-moms in your social circle, put out great photos and narratives about a fantastic day at the park, a creative and time-consuming kid activity, or baking a yummy made-from-scratch-with-all-organic-ingredients-10-step-cardamom-buttermilk-cake, that moms put the good stuff out into the ether because they’d rather not put out the bad stuff.
To announce the bad stuff, is frankly, embarrassing. And it chips away from the brittle facade of the ever-patient, loving, magnanimous and selfless Super Mom.
Let us be clear. No one can do it all. Anything anyone does well comes at the expense of something else. Choosing to exert time and energy in one Mommy direction causes an equal and often compounding reaction in the opposite direction according to the unfair First Irrefutable Law of Mommyhood Physics.
We, as mothers, must choose what we can afford to let go.
For me, I love to cook, play with my kids and write. I hate laundry. Loathe it. Detest it. I would pay someone a lot of money to come over every day to do it. I will happily bake a loaf of French bread from scratch, and watch it rise, while writing a research paper on the mating rituals of cicadas, than do laundry. So, this is the thing that suffers in my house. And I’m about to make a lot of moms feel really good about themselves.
Behold my bi-weekly laundry pile.
Every two weeks or so, when we’re all down to our very last pair of skivvies, I consolidate all the hampers of dirty clothes and become a hermit until all the laundry is done. I have friends who are uber-efficient and they do a load a day. That’s what’s important to them. I guarantee something else suffers. They’re not baking French bread from scratch or writing research papers on the mating rituals of cicadas.
So, mid-month, every month, and here I am. I wash that pile and hope I get a load done before anyone has an accident and we’re out of underpants. And then I dry it and pile it on our guest bed.
Then, I grab a Diet Dr. Pepper and flip on DVR’ed episodes of Chopped or The Next Food Network Star and I sit there like a Chinese prisoner and fold that odious pile for hours. I put it all away that night. And then I coast for another two weeks doing my mommy things, playing with my kids, cooking healthy meals, writing about how awesome we are as that laundry pile mounts and mounts. Child Protective Services hasn’t busted my door down yet.
You might judge my system as inefficient or lazy and I’m okay with that. It beats my former pre-kid system of just buying new underwear every week and trashing the old. I’d say this system is a major improvement.
So, don’t be fooled. Anyone that acts like Super Mom, calls herself Super Mom, or sees someone else as Super Mom should know that Super Mom is a complete farce. We all carry figurative dirty laundry on this mommyhood journey. Mine just happens to be literal, too.
Not you? You sure? Think really hard. I guarantee you suck at something. We all do.
So, remember that the next time you look at someone and think she’s got all this mom stuff figured out.
We. All. Suck. At. Something.
It’s the Second Irrefutable Law of Mommyhood Physics. Don’t forget it.
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: ) Laundry isn’t my nemesis, but I totally know what you mean. I am not a good floor mopper at all. : (
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Good lawd, I’m w/you on the laundry. Positively abhor it. I try to wash clothes weekly (read: I think about doing this) but it never happens. And there I am Sunday afternoons cussing about why my child thinks it’s ok to simply turn underwear inside out b/c she has no clean ones. I just smile when mothers give me the “you’re so together” crap. Um, you have NO idea what my kitchen sink looks like! I’m no super mom by far. But, I figure I’m a mom who’s super at a lot of things. Just not everything. Or multiple things simultaneously. Or laundry. At all.
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I love you! I hate laundry and my laundry room looks just like at times. I do however attempt to do a load a day, but only every 3-4 days or so. I work full time so I need my weekend and evenings to do those fun things with the kids. Normally I do 3 loads and they all sit in the laundry baskets for a few days and then after the kiddies go to bed, I fold and watch really bad reality TV.
I don’t suck at washing/folding the laundry, I suck at putting it away. The piles will set on our couch, on the dresser, on the floor, on just about any clean surface for DAYS!
People sometimes think of me as a “Super Mom” and it makes me feel awful because they have no idea that I completely suck at getting my kids to bed, feeding them nutritious dinners, and sometimes making sure they brushed their teeth before bed! There I said it, I feel so much better confessing that! Thanks for the post—loved it!
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I’m with you re: putting the laundry away. On thing that has helped is that I FORCE myself to put it away before I do any more loads of laundry…that way it doesn’t continue to pile up.
I stopped trying to be supermom a while ago- I’m so much better at just being me.
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Thank you for validating my existence.
I’m sitting here, working on my manuscript that was meant for publisher eyes last month – and there are 5 loads of clean laundry in piles in my bedroom floor. I’d rather set it all on fire than fold it and put it away. I’m the same way about washing them too.
I’d love to say it’s all sitting there because I have so much work to do and I’m so incredibly busy, but…. I’m here, the words aren’t coming.
Yet, I’m onto touching that shit until later. And by later I mean, when I get good and damn ready.
Ah, yes! This is something I try to remind myself of whenever I’m enviously noticing some “super mom”! For me, laundry’s no problem. Cooking, however… ugh – hate it and can’t do it!
“we all suck at something.” – best line ever!
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“Then, I grab a Diet Dr. Pepper and flip on DVR’ed episodes of Chopped or The Next Food Network Star and I sit there like a Chinese prisoner and fold that odious pile for hours.” *dies laughing*
I’ve had people tell me that I’m a super mom because I’m a single mom and manage to cook from scratch meals and every now and then do crafts with my kids. What they seem to miss (even though it’s blaringly obvious) is that my parents moved into my house and do the majority of the cleaning and yard work. Yes my mom does my laundry for me and I love her for it.
toilets. Toilets are my nemesis. I tend to get the “your so with it!” comments whenever I am out with my children (2 and 4) because of my calm demeanor and willingness to get involved with them. I feel like a phony every time I see the state of my toilets, though, because they are lucky to get scrubbed more than 1 time a month.
The parts of my house people see (except the toilet) are always kept up, but that is only because we have a no toy rule on our main floor. I cannot even walk in my finished basement where all the toys live out on the floors, strewn across random furniture, etc. And my husband and I share a bedroom that should be called a pit for dirty and clean laundry at various stages of done-ness. People walk in and tell me that can’t tell we have kids, and I just never mention that we have a huge basement that could also be considered a toy wading pool.
Now, we’ve all broken down that myth of Super Mom, we know there’s no such thing, but I have seen a lot of Super MOAN, mothers who shout out for all who can hear of how busy they are, how they bend over backwards for their children and their childrens’ schedules, “don’t worry about me! I do it for them. *I* do it for them.” They homebake all the goodies (and post it on Facebook for all to read), keept their homes immaculate, let the kids go apeshit on the dining room walls in an effort to be considered “artistic and freeing”, they just don’t tell you how they are pulling their hair to keep it all together, are on a first name basis with a housecleaning service, or how they screamed for their little urchins’ heads on a pike for coloring over the faux textured walls before spinning it into a fantasy tale and taking a picture to show others how good natured they were in reacting to it and “see what I have to deal with? They’re my heart, you know.”
There’s a Super Moan I have to see on a daily (I accidentally wrote faily and thought that would work too) basis, she chirps her status of life for all to hear, she expects people to bend down to her uterus because it is clearly superior, but I know better.
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“she expects people to bend down to her uterus because it is clearly superior, but I know better.”
I laughed.. and laughed… and then for giggles I laughed some more.
If you can manage to always smile away your midgets antics, then good for you, and please let me know what meds you are on. Personally, in my house I have adopted the “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all” rule. If he is driving me nuts, I look at him, and then I ignore him until I’m not irritated anymore. Which to be honest, bothers him more then all the time outs or lost toys in the world could manage. Any decent mom does bend over backwards to make sure they do the best parenting job possible. The best ones just know to shhhhh about it so they don’t look arrogant.
Thank you for being willing to share those photos. We so often see all the create things that people accomplish and so few are willing to share what they let go in order to accomplish what needs to be done. We have a dry wall patching job that has been waiting 2.5 years and a half way dismantled deck that is waiting for a day that is dry and not 400 degrees. So thank you for showing me I am not alone.
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Hah! Awesome. I do suck at something. I shove everything willy nilly into cupboards/ drawers and shut it firmly. Everything looks neat-ish on the outside, but it’s really chaos inside.
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I don’t suck at laundry, that much. I usually get most of it done within the week give or take a load of whites or towels here or there… What I suck at is cleaning, organization, and getting off Facebook to do just about anything. I hope one day they will invent a robot to just do it all…
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For God’s sake, THIS.
Also, why have you snuck into my house, photographed my laundry room, and plastered the photo on the intertubes? :-)
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I <3 this! I posted it up on my blog and linking you because I definitely think more of the world needs to read something like this! We really can't do it all, and the laundry (and dishes in my house) can wait while I play with the munchkin and make yummy food-stuffs :)
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Here’s mine: I’m a messy cook. There are always drips and splatters and crumbs. My living room is tidy, my kids are spotless. My drawers are organized, my books are categorized by genre.
But my kitchen countertops are downright scary. Or they would be, if my husband weren’t such a neat freak. In the evenings he chases me around with a sponge. Then he puts everything right again before turning in for the night.
I hope he sticks around. ;-)
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Totally love this post! I am called Super Mom at least once a day because I work full-time as an attorney, raise two kids (one with special needs), and keep my marriage going. I always laugh because I know I have a laundry pile, probably some dishes that need to get washed, and my pants are hemmed with staples and safety pins.
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Oh I’m thee worst floor mopper in the history of the world! I also can’t stand to vacuum! We do awesome crafts and I wash, fold, and put away laundry like it’s no ones business! And I’m for hire ;)
I haven’t had that term thrown my way exactly, but it’s been implied. And I always want to laugh. Sure I can do pretty well for a week or two, the to do list never gets completely done, but enough. It’s exhausting though, and after eight to ten days, I get so run down it’s either take a break or get knocked on my rear for days. Good lands can laundry and dishes ever pile up quick!
I love having a clean house, but I hate cleaning with every fiber of my being. I still do it because otherwise, yuck, but I refuse to iron if a good tumble in the dryer will work. Mom thinks I’m just the worst because I don’t press the girls’ Sunday dresses, but what’s the point? Have you seen what car seat straps do to frilly little dresses?
I’d rather use that time to make sure they get a breakfast that’s not chock full o’ sugar and preservatives or, gasp, have a cup of coffee with my husband.
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My laundry pile and your laundry pile should get married and go have baby laundry piles. I find laundry to be an odious task. Also, cleaning toilets.
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I want to know why one week of my laundry resembles two weeks of your laundry?! And I never (hardly ever) fold. There is just so much of it and so many other things to do that it doesn’t happen. Right now my house is a complete embarrassment, but I’m so exhausted that I have no motivation to do anything knowing that it will be right back in that condition within an hour.
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Finally!!! Someone who HATES laundry as much as I do!! I feel like the Bee Girl in the Blind Melon video!!! Woo hoooo!!
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Oh I hear you there, sister! I hates me some stinky laundry. Thank God I don’t use cloth diapers for my baby. I don’t know how people do that!! If I were thinner, I would go nude 24/7 just so I didn’t have to do laundry. But since I’m not, I am forced to do laundry again and again. Damn those indecent exposure laws. Damn my flabby mom belly. Damn the dirty laundry. Damn them. Damn them straight to hell.
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I periodically (and proudly) remind my boys (the big one & the two small ones) that I’m a “good for nothin’, slacker mommy”.
My MIL is horrified by this admission, “children should respect their parents,” she admonishes.
To which I say “respect is earned, not demanded.”
The way I figure it, if I set the bar REALLY low, I have nowhere to go but up in their expectations.
I suck at cooking but excel in all areas of cleaning!!! Maybe we can work out a deal?
Amen! I love to do laundry, but I hate, hate, hate putting my shoes away. At any time I have 6-10 pairs on my bedroom floor! Thanks for this post. If all women could just admit we really can’t do “it” all, maybe we’d all feel better!
OMG! When did you sneak into my house to take those laundry pictures??? LOL But seriously, if you fold all that and put it all away in one day…sorry but you are super woman!
Thank God. Someone else has a laundry pile as big as mine! What makes it worse for me now is that my kids are older, and their clothes are bigger. This seems to make MORE LAUNDRY.
And I am notorious for letting everyone get down to their last pair of socks and/or underwear before doing laundry.
At least my laundry room is in the basement, so I can avoid looking at the ever-growing piles of clothes.
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Such a good point! But I think that “Super Mom” can have dirty laundry and crumby floors and canned soup for dinner….. because, really, none of those things are directly related to parenting.
“Super Mom” takes care of herself and her children and strives for a relatively happy and fulfilling life.
And my bedroom chair looks much like that bed right now. :-)
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Your laundry pile is tiny in comparison to ours. I hate laundry, and it shows. My laundry room is COVERED (as in: cannot see the floor – anywhere) in clothes. I have one week until kids start school to get it all done, but in reality, I probably won’t even start until the weekend. I am a horrible housekeeper, but an even worse procrastinator. :)
Thank you for this! I hate being called Super Mom ~ it makes me feel like sh*t, because it’s so far from true. You’ve inspired me to take some pics of our laundry, and maybe the dirty dishes too…
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People ask me a lot about how I do everything. Truth is, I suck at Laundry and dishes. Thanks to the dummy who owned the house before we bought it, after our dishwasher went, we couldn’t get a new one installed because of some electrical issue that is now waiting to be fixed. So I do dishes by hand. I have been known to throw laundry in the spare room and shut the door or put dirty dishes in the defunct dishwasher just to give the house the illusion of being clean when guests come over. Because my husband is gone a lot for work, and I run my own business and homeschool, I also have a housekeeper come and help. I am definitely NOT supermom, but it is a nice compliment :)
I hate cleaning bathrooms! But I rotate my “what I’m bad at” task is weekly or bi-weekly sometimes. One week I’ll cook every meal, clean the house, do the laundry, coupon, and spend loads of time focused on the kids (& hubs), but will neglect my myself (working out, friends, etc…). Then next week I’ll go to the gym every morning, a mom’s night out once or twice, get some scrapbooking done, etc… while the laundry piles up, we eat out twice and the trash smells and my floors are dirty… So not good at being good at everything all at once. OH WELL no one has died yet. =) I think we’re still super at what we do (LOVE OUR KIDS/FAMILY!!) but we are human.
i’ll do your laundry if you do our dishes! also i really dislike cleaning toilets. thankfully those gel disks from the Bubbles work really well!
I don’t cook dinner. And my master shower needs the tile deep cleaned. At this point, I’ll probably have to call someone with a truck mounted carpet cleaning system to steam the grout. Ya, it’s that bad.
I do the exact same thing with the laundry folding. Only, for me, it’s almost every night. It’s my daily escape–tv and mindless folding, then putting away when I’m bleary-eyed later on. This all happens, by the way, while my dear husband sits on the couch watching TV. He does do all the dishes though. I hate doing dishes.
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Mine is clean dishes. They stay in the dishwasher until they’re all used, and the sink is all full again.
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Yep. Sames!
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Hey – how did you get my laundry pile? I spent 2 hours sorting and folding last night. Now, if I could only get it put away, we’d be in business. Right now, the baskets are sitting in everyone’s room. That’s a tornado waiting to happen.
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Oh I so adore this post!! I dont so much mind putting the clothes into the washer then into the dryer and then into a laundry basket. Its getting them folded and put away that I hate. Yes, I could do it while I watch tv but I cannot do it while I blog or tweet. Its impossible. I do cook almost every night and keep my house pretty clean. I cant stand dishes in the sink or a messy living room. But folded laundry?! That will be the death of me.
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I love this. I’m so the same way only mine is once a week and the pile is even bigger. How is that possible? I must have more children lol.
I’ve found another saving grace to the laundry. I don’t have a TV in my room which is my laundry central so I listen to audio books on my iPhone. If anyone is hanging around bugging me I tell them they have to help put the laundry away. That usually gets rid of them pretty quickly ;)
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When I tweet out the good stuff it is always because I’m so shocked by it that I have to preserve it in cyberspace asap. Who knows when/if it will ever happen again?
And I say ‘tweet’ because my amazing mom moments aren’t usually long enough to make up an entire blog post.
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Great post, so true! The picture is so honest!
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This just made my day. I don’t feel so guilty about not being perfect. Thanks so much! I can’t wait to read more and more and more!
I have no problem doing laundry. I love starting loads. Cleaning out lint is a secret obsession of mine. I don’t even mind folding. I totally suck at putting them away. I would rather pile them up on my window seat or on the couch or in a laundry basket.
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This is exactly why I have so many people from my FB feed – NO ONE is as perfect as some of these people portray themselves. I too, battle the laundry amongst other things…thanks for keepin’ it real!
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HIDDEN from FB feed…not perfect at all, see? haha
Bereccah recently posted..This Is Not What I Had In Mind
I responded up there to you, Bereccah- I had no idea you could hide people from a feed. I thought you had to block people. That’s awesome- thanks!
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What do I suck at? Let me count the ways…
It’s surely more than just the uncreative toddler meals. And the vacuuming that may or may not get done on a semi-irregular basis. There’s way more where that came from.
But how about this? You make me one of those loaves of French bread and I’ll start your laundry. Because baking is another one of my shortcomings.
that’s a freaking deal, Kim. Where do you live? I’m in Laredo, Texas. I can spit into Mexico from my back window. :)
critters and crayons recently posted..Watching Her Go
OMG- How have I not hidden people from my FB feed? I didn’t realize we could hide people versus block them? I love that!!! Thank you!
This is the best…I just did a post on what a disaster my house was…IS!
My husband likes to tell me all the time that I was a Super Mom before I started blogging, which is a total time suck. Well, it is a time suck. And I like it. And I specifically recall that before blogging, he used to tell me I was a Super Mom before having a second kid, before going to the library, playgroup, cloth diapering. Get it? He thinks I suck.
So, I guess I’m saying I know I suck, thanks for breaking the online illusion :P lol
Great article!
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Amanda recently posted..Of course I’m obsessed with being a Super Mom. I’m a mythology geek!
Great Post!! Love this…I am not a super mom…can never be a super mom, but I do often have visions of grandeur! So, maybe someday. :)
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Thank you for sharing your Super Mom alter ego with us. In my house Super Moom’s alter ego is “Hates to do dishes Mom”. You’re right – we all have one (or two or three).
Laundry, i swear it multiplies while we sleep!
so true… funny, my tagline of my blog is “supermom in training”… but really, that needs to change. i guess it just means I do a lot of things.
I wrote a post the other day about a kids’ craft that I saw on Pinterest. like the awesome mommy I am, i decided to give it a shot… because hey, that’s what good moms do, right? it was a failure, my kids weren’t as interested as I thought they’d be and I ended up doing the craft myself…
ugh…. NOT a supermom moment.
I called it my “amateur mom” moment… http://www.workwifemomlife.com/2011/08/amateur-mom.html
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Scary Mommy- I posted that your blog featured my post on your blog on my blog. :)
http://crittersandcrayons.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/cc-featured-on-scary-mommy-the-myth-of-the-super-mom/
Thanks, again- Awesome experience. I don’t know how you find the time to do all you do and still answer emails from folks you don’t know. You must be Super Mom! LOL. (I did crack a smile) ;)
I love it and agree we all suck at something and no one wants to admit it.
For me it rotates around, I’ll be doing really well on writing, doing things with my granddaughters and even keeping on track on my diet. Then I’ll notice that there is a ring of gross stuff growing in the toilet. So then I go on a cleaning binge and my granddaughters are upset, because we haven’t gone to the park today. Next thing I know, the house is clean but I haven’t written. I could only hope it was one thing, instead I can’t keep up with everything all the time.
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I loved this post. I hate to tell you, but I have a pile of laundry that rivals your pile! I just don’t have a picture. I do not know at what time and when this whole Super Mommy idea started, but I would like to throttle the person who started it. Because, as you suggest in your post, there is no such thing. Something always suffers. We all have our talents and drawbacks. I never let it get me down. We all have something different to bring to the table, regardless of if we cook the dinner coming to the table or serving take-out for the third night in a row!
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A quote that has always stuck with me came from a French Mom about American culture, “Do-it-all Moms are doing everything but it.”. As in, the hibbidy-dibbity. I try to remember this when my priorities
get jacked around by these unrealistic standards. And it’s funny to imagine Super-Mom not getting laid to make myself feel better about my inadequacy around her.
Love it. I use supermom as a sarcastic title, it makes me giggle. In my house its usually the laundry, I have no problem getting it washed and dried, its the folding and putting away that sucks. we live out of clean baskets a lot of the time, lol.
What a great post. And thank you for the mandate to continue my laundry system (same as yours). We Mums are certainly caught between a rock and a hard place. There are more worthwhile life goals than laundry, but it still has to be done. I wrote a post on this with shots of Picasso’s house. Also Margaret Olley’s place (a famous Australian painter). From the looks of it, I suspect there were large piles of laundry in these homes too.
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I love this post. Laundry is my downfall, too. You should see my current dirty pile, though. It would put yours to shame! Our washer/dryer set is so old that it takes forever to get through a load. Add to that hair from our dogs and cats, and I don’t really understand why I bother doing laundry at all… Can’t we just get cheap sheets from the dollar store and wear togas?
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I have a family photo site that gets a ton of compliments:
Your kids are so happy!
You guys are such good parents!
What lucky children!
All of which are true, but I tell people all the time — I only put the good pictures up. Nobody wants to see pictures of kids crying, bickering, or whining in timeout. (Or of parents doing the same.) I put up the cute photos of happy, smiling kids, doing a project or something creative because that’s what we all want to see. And I can use it to counter the twins’ “I had a terrible childhood” arguments when they’re teenagers. :)
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My downfall is all household chores. I hate them all. And I hate cooking too, and am not good at it. I don’t know how my family of 4 survives on my cooking. Well, my 2 girls are under 3 so their food is easy for now, but my husband? Not sure how he’s still alive, must be the fast-food lunches he buys at work.
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I love laundry and loathe cooking-maybe we can work something out- :)
Ha! This post made me giggle. So true that there is no such thing as a Super Mom, Super Dad or in my humble opinion notion of anything being “perfect”. I would however love to trade you a once weekly laundry session for 3 loaves of fresh french bread, lol. Thanks for the laugh and permission to be imperfect.
For everyone who responded to this post featured on Scary Mommy, I am so thankful that it was received well! I can’t believe I’m back at the point where this picture was taken, looking at the horrible pile and thinking about what day in this next week, I’m actually going to try to start washing it. Ugh. I’d much rather be blogging. Or cooking something. Thanks to everyone and so many thanks to Scary Mommy for featuring it. :)
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OMGosh! I do the EXACT same thing. I wash a ton…it sits and sits and sits until the wrinkly pile is crawling up the wall from the basket. Then I get something to drink after the kids go to bed, flip on the DVR and start folding and putting away. Only to start over again the next morning!
I love this post! Yeah, I agree We. All. Suck. At. Something. because we are only human! We can have it all and we can’t do it all. We are just we are. :)
Thank you for sharing this post!
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I have dusting, window cleaning, ironing and probably toilets to clean but this afternoon I will take the girls to the pool instead and hubby will have to iron or wear a wrinkled shirt! I hate to iron!!
Dear God, why am I JUST NOW finding this hilarious blog?!?! ;)
Candice- do you mean the mega Scary Mommy Blog or my little site at http://www.crittersandcrayons.com? Thanks so much for liking this post! haha! Scary Mommy is friggin’ hilarious.
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I love BOTH, but you posting those pictures of your laundry and the “SupeR Mom” stigma had me DYING laughing!!! LOL! I know eeeeveryone says it, but Holy crap, I relate SO well!
Laundry is my arch-nemesis. ;)
hahaha! Well, thank you!!! I am actually about to rewash a load that I washed yesterday and the day before. I keep forgetting it’s there and it smells like mildew. I suck so bad at laundry.
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Ugh…. I forgot a load in too. At least it was just the dog towels.
Okay, my mother appeared to be the Uber Super Mom. Our house was always tidy and clean, she made all of our halloween costumes (and they blew away stuff you’d pay $100 for now!), she baked, she cooked, she taught CCD…you name it, she did it.
She will call me to gripe about my step-dad and bitch about how he’s so cheap, self-centered and totally ignores her needs…which is all true. However, when it’s my turn to gripe about my hubby, she goes all 50s Stepford Wife on me! Well, you should work harder to make sure the house is clean. He works all day, give him a break (in answer to my bitching that he can’t seem to hit the trash barrel or clean up after himself!) Etc., etc.
And that is where we find out she was originally lacking…mental stability!
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Thank you! My laundry pile looks exactly the same. I hide it in the basement so people only only see the freshly baked, whole grain goodies and not my family of five’s 50 pairs of underwear.
I think you guys are pretty modest. There isn’t a mom who’s not one. But I guess the laundry is a bit of a pain.
Oh my gosh – I just found your site, thanks to a friend, and this is BRILLIANT!!! Your laundry room looks like mine too! :) You did make someone feel better! :) Thanks!!! Love it.
Sharon- Thanks! I’m still doing my laundry. :) It never ends. Tricia
I am not sure how old,your children are…….but if they are too young here is something to look forward to.
Laundry was also my pet hate….still is.Mainly the ironing andmputting away part. After 17 years of marriage I finally told my husband I was not going to stay up on a Sunday night ironing his shirts…..he could iron them.
My children at 11 and 12 were given a list of jobs to choose 3 from. They both chose doing their own washing and ironing. They also opted to wash their own towels and bedding. Daughter would iron everything twice on a Sunday night……so she could finish watching her TV programme. Husband decided he would also do his washing and now won’t let me near his washing because it might get mixed up.
People always gasped and wondered how I managed this…….easy. If they wanted something clean to wear they had to wash and iron it. They knew I wouldn’t!
They were very busy kids with a number of activities. Moms don’t have to be Supermoms and do everything for their kids.Even quite young children can put their clothes away!