By Aimee Carson
It’s the first Tuesday of the month and that means it’s time for you to think back over the past month (or more) and complete this sentence: “You might feel like a bad mommy if…”
You might feel like a bad mommy if . . . you’re away for two weeks and when you come home, you promise to read to one of your kids. But as the two of you sit on the bed, you keep nodding off during the story and mumbling words that don’t make any sense.
You might feel like a bad mommy if . . . your teenager begs you not to visit her at Dairy Queen where she works. But you go and order dinner anyway, waving at her from the dining room, enjoying every annoyed roll of her eyes.
Please share your bad mommy moments. Click on the number beside the title to leave a comment.
LOL, Amiee. I love the rewriting your child’s bedtime stories in your sleep one, but the best for me as the mom of teens is the joy of embarrassing them.
Okay. Here’s mine for this month:
You might feel like a bad mommy if…
You and your gal pals think your teens are safely outdoors playing flashlight tag and so you’re sitting in the living room recounting your pre-mommy pasts. Unfortunately the teens are really hiding on the stairs listening in. Bad Mommy!
But it gets worse. At some point the conversation turns from your pre-mommy adventures to the teens’ misadventures and most embarrassing moments. That’s when the teenage easvesdroppers storm down the stairs in outrage to put a stop to all this oversharing of their private business. Er, sorry.
Bad Mommy!
You might feel like a bad mommy if….you put off packing your daughter up for 2 months of sleep away camp until the last possible minute. (The night before.) Then you turn into a screaming lunatic when no one can find the swim goggles. (At 11:00 p.m.) You’re tired. Your daughter’s tired. Your husband and son are hiding. And the last night you spend with your 14-year-old, who you are not going to see for two long months, you’re stressed and yelling and feeling guilty that you didn’t start sooner. And buy her brand new goggles. (Which I ultimately wound up buying on the way to camp.)
You might feel like a bad mommy if…You go away to an awesome writer’s conference for a week and miss your kids. You cry and hug and cuddle for the first few hours of the homecoming. Then reality sets back in and that night, you lay exhausted, no work done, house trashed, with the requests still coming and think, When can I get away again?????
HI Wendy, Awww, dont’ feel so bad. It’s like me packing for a “fun” vacation and when we begin, everyone’s in a bad mood because I’ve lost it!
Yes, Regina, I’m quite famous for falling asleep while reading to the kids. Invariably one of them will wake me with a “Mom, what are you talking about?” LOL.
Oh, and embarrassing the teen has become waaaay to easy . . .
Wendy, LOL! I can relate to screaming for random articles while packing. Why is nothing ever where it should be? (I found the remote in my purse once, but I think that might have been my fault
Jen, I know exactly how you feel!! Two weeks away (and three time zone changes) has really zapped me. I think I need a vacation!
These bad mommy moments are great! I second the thoughts on the conference. It was wonderful to come home to huge hugs and kisses and “I missed you mommy.” But by the next day I was wondering how I would ever get any work done again and already looking forward to the kids heading to bed. LOL!
Hello, Heather!! The conference was definitely great, and I could use another wonderful, child-free dinner out! lol. More free time to write would help too
From Twitter:
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@ @WendySMarcus @jenniferprobst You can feel bad fir mommy if she can’t remember the directions to the kids’ school at the end if the day.
To which I replied: That must have been some day!!!
Eek! You might be a bad mommy if…
You lose sight of your younger two kids for about ten minutes and find them in the back bedroom eating Neste Quick chocolate powder from the can…(has also happened with jelly)
You might be a bad mommy if…you say the slightly scandalous title of your first book so often in front of the kiddos that your three year old looks at you one day and says “V is for Virgin.”
Bad Mommy!
Maisey – Welcome!! I used to find my son sucking the Nestle Quick up with a straw LOL. LOVE the V is for Virgin story!!
Anastasia – I don’t think it gets any worse than forgetting the directions to your kids’ school! Last month my bad mommy moment was being 2 hours late to pick them up (cuz I forgot – Bad Mommy!)
Hi Maisey! Oh, that’s good, really good.
How about…You May Be A Bad Mommy If…
You love listening to your Katy Perry CD but your six your old son starts rapping at the dinner table to the song “Peacock.” And then you tell him it means the peacock at the zoo and not to sing it outside of the house. Yeah. Right.
Bad mommy.
You mean it doesn’t mean peacock at the zoo?
You might be a Bad Mommy if…you make a really stupid joke to your husband (with whom you have been happily married for 7 years) that says something like ‘well when we break up you can have all the cookies you want’ just as your 6 year old comes into the room. His shocked breath of “What? What does that mean?’ is enough to make you feel really, really low. Explaining divorce to my six year old and then having to explain that we are not getting one.
Rebecca, lovely to “see” you again! Still enjoying the memory of my delicious Moroccan meal!!
And yes, lol, you had some splainin’ to do!! Why do the kids always interrupt at the most inconvenient times?!?!
Today I had breakfast with some girlfriends whom I had not seen in years and it never crossed my mind once to check on my son.
Not really sure if this counts as a bad mommy, but I did feel a little bad…just a little.
Optimistic Mom, anything that makes you feel bad counts, as far as I’m concerned! Even if it’s only for a little bit . Often the things that make me feel “bad,” really shouldn’t. I’m just built for guilt, I suppose.
Thanks for stopping by!