When you flip on the TV when you’re home alone, it takes you a good 10 minutes to realize that you don’t have to watch Dora, the Explorer.
- All of your rubber bands have wound into a ball that is now wedged between your couch cushions.
- Whenever you hear someone yell, “Stop!” you reflexively shout, “One more time and I’m sending you all to your rooms!” And then the police officer directing traffic stares at you.
- You’re starting to think that all the doorknobs in the house came with pink glitter on them.
- You’re down to your last pair of underpants — again — because you need to get another load of soccer/baseball/lacrosse/karate uniforms washed right away.
- All of your beach towels have cartoon characters on them, and you like to stick your husband with the Disney Princesses one.
- You think your car’s operating manual should warn people to clear soccer balls, wiffle ball bats, driveway chalk, beach buckets, kid-sized folding chairs and piles of rocks from behind the wheels before backing out of the garage.
- All of the books on your nightstand have pictures in them and not much in the way of plot or believable dialogue.
- Your calendar is filled with birthday parties for various people named “Isabella,” “Jacob” and “Max,” all of whom know you as “your child’s name here‘s mom.”
- The handy drawer organizer you bought for your scissors and tape, etc. is filled with three broken crayons, a blue paper clip that has been twisted until it’s unusable, two bubble gum wrappers, cookie crumbs and a dried out piece of Play-Doh shaped like a coiled snake.
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I do the first one all the time, sometimes its just when they leave the room and I realize I am still watching Max & Ruby!
Hahahaha, Denise! I used to leave my kids with my mother-in-law once a week and run errands, etc. I’d get about a mile from the house, look in the review mirror, see empty carseats and panic. Then I remembered I had the morning off. Enjoy Max & Ruby!
Great ideas here. I think parents with young kids could do this just to have bonding and learning time with their angels. A valuable resource for parents here Mia. Glad I checked your site. Keep up the good work!
This made me smile. I just had to comeback and leave a comment.
Not quite like my life, but funny!