It seems I have read about a book every other day the past couple of weeks. Apparently this is the distraction tactic I use instead of packing. It has been great reading so much but as we have two days left to pack, I realize that I should have been packing a bit more.
Luckily, most of my reading is done while E is napping, when I couldn’t really be packing anyway as it makes so much darn noise (he seems to wake up way too easily during the day).
But for now, it’s some serious packing…
Filed under: life | Tags: books, Dirty Little Secrets From Otherwise Perfect Moms
I just finished this book…um…in like 10 minutes. It wasn’t what I anticipated (maybe I didn’t read the description accurately) but enjoyable. Below are my favorite two ’secrets’
*We were in the grocery store and when we hit the wine aisle, she screamed “That’s Mommy’s juice!”
*The one thing I wish I had was a wife
Yup…I don’t think an explanation is needed
Filed under: family, life, son | Tags: books, judging, Momzilla, motherhood, reading
I just finished reading Momzillas and enjoyed it quite a bit. I don’t have to deal with such uber moms on a regular basis but know how they can be. My favorite quote (however insightful it may be) was:
You can run but you can’t hide. Momzillas are everywhere. Some might compete about being thin, or having better dressed kids, but others compete about being cooler or a better breast feeder.
Ever since having E, I feel that I have judged other mothers less. Prior to his birth, I would always think, sometimes even say, all the things that I wouldn’t do that I had seen other mothers doing. After having E, I began to understand that you do what you must to get by and can see how mothers would do things that didn’t seem to make sense. I wish that I could say that with that realization I no longer judge. What?! Me no longer judging people? Something world changing would have to happen for me to stop judging, but I can say that I now judge mothers a whole lot less than I used to!
I guess the title of this post was to reflect on some mothers and the importance of image. I guess having a Bugaboo stroller is the ultimate waste for me to imagine. Don’t get me wrong-if I were given a Bugaboo, I would use it, and probably enjoy it. But I cannot even fathom spending almost 10 Benjamin’s on a stroller. Maybe because we don’t own a house yet, maybe because I’m all about the bargain hunting, but to spend such a large sum of money on a stroller is something I can never understand.
And apparently I did pretty well with the NBA teams-I missed only 6, not bad, not bad!
