-- Oh who am I kidding?
-- Do you ever have secret thoughts that you can't ever blog about, or facebook status, or really even talk about with anybody and they drive you nuts? Even though the individual thoughts are no big deal, thinking about them to yourself drives you absolutely batty?
-- Yes, I'm batty.
-- I almost posted on Thursday but I came across as such a whiny bitch that I didn't want to post it. Since it's still irritating me and I CAN post, here goes. I can take parenting advice like a champ. Honest. But when it comes from someone who never ever seems like they have problems with parenting, I want to wring their neck. Who are you to tell me what works best? Everything's always butterflies and unicorns with you!? Seriously. I wish I could complain more, but I don't know how to say it without sounding like even more of an ungrateful bitch. Whenever I give advice (solicited or unsolicited) I always preface that it worked for my kids, or that I acknowledge that I have been lucky where they have been good with ______ issue, but these are my thoughts. I never presume to know more than said parent. I hope that always comes across, and I hope anyone I've ever tried to give advice to knows that I've had eight million of my own issues in parenting, my own doubts, and anything that has worked has been through trial and error.
-- It's not all butterflies and unicorns here.
-- And by the way, since I haven't said so in the last six seconds, teething is the devil.
-- I'm going out for happy hour today after work for the first time in
-- I was not at a midnight showing of Harry Potter this morning. I'm actually a little sad about that. BUT I may
-- BIG NEWS! We have decided to take the whole family to Delaware in October for my friend's wedding. I've never traveled with children, and I'm terrified. Any suggestions? Advice? Suggestions of fairly inexpensive things to do with toddlers in the Philadelphia area (I'm not paying $60 a piece to see the real Sesame Street, no matter how cool it is)? I promise not to bitch about solicited advice, I swear.
-- Oh, and I JUST REMEMBERED that we are celebrating my birthday at work today, and there will be carrot cake from the best carrot cake makers ever and so this better be an awesome day. Also, I should definitely work out on lunch, between the carrot cake and the wine. Yay.
3 comments:
Happy (at work) Birthday! I love Carrot Cake!
I too did not see Harry Potter at midnight and will also probably wait til an afternoon or early morning next week to see it.
As for the parenting advice, I know! Ugh, sometimes it's so hard to just smile and nod when inside you're screaming "WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!!!" Vent here! I won't think of you as whiny. I'll probably commiserate with you , and help you think of a fun way to get said butterfly and unicorn girl back!
YUM!
I catch myself giving advice on kids sometimes and I've never had any kids! Seriously I slap myself then. I've only had nieces and nephews and babysitting and that seriously isn't the same. And I'm never trying to say it's the same but somehow I know I come off that way. Ugh!
I think it's all in the delivery in the advice. I'm not necessarily opposed to receiving advice from people who don't have kids. You've given advice before and I relish it!
And the carrot cake was A.W.E.S.O.M.E. In the truest sense of the word.
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