by: Aimee Carson
Today is the first Tuesday of the month —and of 2012!—which means it’s time for “You Might Feel Like a Bad Mommy If…” Guilt is the reason for the game and, as always, I get to go first. Lucky me!!
You might feel like a bad mommy if… on New Year’s Eve you are too tired to ring in 2012 with your kids. Instead, you leave that honor to your husband and are in bed before 10 pm.
You might feel like a bad mommy if… during the holiday break you didn’t make a single home cooked meal. With the exception of Christmas dinner (cooked by your mother), your kids were fed cold sandwiches, pizza, or leftovers.
Happy New Year, everyone! May 2012 bring you all health, success, and happiness!! Click on the number by the title to share your bad mommy moments, your New Year’s parenting resolutions, or just drop us a note to say hello.
LOL! I was feeling like a bad mommy because over Christmas break the kids actually had daily homecooked meals and they said something along the lines of, “wish we ate like this for real.” Which felt like a backhanded compliment. Not precisely a Southern Insult, but edging close.
So one of my myriad resolutions for 2012: more “real” homecooked meals.
LOL – I too did not cook at all that week! We ate out, ate leftovers, ate at my mom’s house, or anyone else that would feed us! I considered it my vacation too.
You might feel like a bad mommy if…your alarm went off this morning and you ignored it, so you woke up late and yelled at your poor son to get moving on his first day back when it wasn’t even his fault!
Lol, Regina! Definitely a backhanded compliment. I’m curious though. What is a Southern Insult? One that is delivered with sweet charm and a syrupy accent!?!?
Me either, Jen! I didn’t cook a single THING. I didn’t even pour a bowl of cereal
. And I can’t even count the number of times I have gotten up late only to yell at the kids to hurry up!
You might feel like a bad mommy if….you spend the entrie two weeks of your oldest daughter’s vacation home from college in front of the computer. Because you missed your deadline. And then, when you finally finish, everyone has gone back to school and you’re home alone with the dog. Dozens of opportunities for family fun missed because I couldn’t get my act together sooner.
(But over the break we did head into NYC for a family day to see a broadway play and attended a temple dinner and a family Chanukah party. So it wasn’t a total bust. I just wish I’d been available to do more fun things.)
Yuck, Wendy. There is nothing more depressing than having to work while the rest of your family is off. I did that for far too many years and refuse to do it again! Glad you snuck in a little time with your family!
LOL Happy New Year’s ladies! I look forward to more in 2012. Love this site.
Hi Amie,
A Southern Insult is a very subtle thing. It is usually an observation, or sometimes a compliment, with a small twist that alters the true meaning from the initially perceived meaning. A Southern Insult is a painful truth delivered dressed in an exquisitely polite package with such finesse and gentleness that the person on the receiving end may not realize for several long moments – if ever – that they have been insulted (or corrected, as the case may be).
Latorsha – Happy New Year!!! We’re so happy you’re pleased with our site and we look forward to having you visit in 2012
Wow, Regina, thanks for this!! I think I might have handed out a few Southern Insults over the years. I KNOW I’ve been on the receiving end of one or two
It takes me a week to prep for two meals for a sit down dinner at Christmas. My family is lucky if I even allow them in the kitchen. I did give a Gingerbread party the week before so I think I am awesome. ROFL well, they were boxed and my oldest son helped all morning but still I did it.
And on Southern insults, all my momma every said to get me thinking was, “Well, I would not do it that way, but you do what you think is best”. Then she would just turns her head like I am a hunk of shame weed. ( Yes, I said shame weed and no you can’t smoke it.)
Yes, Pam, the Gingerbread party definitely counts!! That is MOST awesome
How is it that I grew up in the south but never heard of a Southern Insult until this post?!? Clearly somewhere along the way someone fell down on the job of educating me