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If it weren’t for [blank], I’d ADORE being a mother

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12 Comments

• On 03.22.11 jennie w. said:

  Um, children?

  Nah, I would have to say housework. I would enjoy my children so much more if I didn’t have all that boring cleaning to do. It just sucks the life out of me.

• On 03.22.11 Emily said:

  Bedtime, middle-of-the-night wakings, potty training.

• On 03.22.11 Carina said:

  Screaming
  Potty training

• On 03.22.11 Laura Williams said:

  What’s for dinner?
  I’m Hungry.
  Will you get me something to drink?
  And the whining!
  And POOP! (I HATE poop most of all)

• On 03.22.11 Charlotte said:

  Can I cut and paste?

  Laundry
  Selective hearing
  Hygiene lessons
  Disney channel

• On 03.23.11 Stacey @ Tree, Root, and Twig said:

  teenage defiance
  preschool defiance
  all the defiance in between
  {sigh}

  

  big mamma frog Reply:
  March 25th, 2011 at 4:35 am

  you forgot maternal defiance – I’m getting quite good at that!

• On 03.23.11 Jordan said:

  Tantrums
  Screaming
  Whining
  Fighting
  Night wakings!!

• On 03.23.11 big mamma frog said:

  If it wasn’t for …

  being paid lower than a slave labourer in a sweat shop

  the patronising look on working (paid) people’s faces when they ask what I do and I say I stay at home and look after my kids (“Oh…well I guess looking after children must be hard work”). ARRRRggghhHH!

  the inability to finish a sentence or do the ‘easy’ crossword or remember anyone’s name because childbirth ate my brain cells.

  childless relatives/friends bemoaning that they don’t have any free time (!) and can only afford one holiday abroad this year (i.e. 3 weeks to the Seychelles or similar).

  mud, poo, vomit, fluff, squealing, fighting, crashing, tormenting of siblings and the lego distribution curve (i.e. every corner in every room of the house)

  …I’d think being a mother is ok.

• On 03.23.11 Karyn said:

  ..if I weren’t worried about money…then I could chill out and just enjoy these few years I have at home with them.

• On 03.27.11 Steph said:

  I was going to say mornings. I do not like mornings.

• On 03.29.11 gurrbonzo said:

  TOILET TRAINING.

  Annnnnd, rough bedtimes. And I know it’s mean to rub it in, but I’ve been teaching in the evenings lately so my husband flies solo at bedtime pretty regularly and it has done WONDERS for my emotional health.

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