not everybody's mom
When I was growing up I always wished I had that mom. You know the one that allllllll the kids gravitate towards. I didn't have that mom so I vowed to myself that I would BE that mom. Um, now that I have kids that ain't working so well.
I just don't love everybody else's kids. I love kids that belong to my friend's for the most part, and thankfully for me I don't have many friends because that means I don't have to love very many kids. Yep, that's the first time I've ever been thankful for not having friends!
Dominick had a sleepover this weekend. A kid I had never even met before from the club. Didn't know this kid's parents either but for some strange reason they felt it okay to allow their 9 year old come to my 7 year old's house. Sight unseen. Maybe that isn't so weird and I just need to loosen up?!? Alex was a nice enough kid with a slightly snotty attitude that tried to push my limits more times than I appreciate. Is that just what kids do? This isn't the first time I have had this experience but it really cemented the fact that I am not cut out for being the neighborhood mom, or the neighborhood house.
I started making mini pizza's for the boys and decided we needed to go to the store so we did that. Alex was whinning because I didn't buy him gum! Whinning in the checkout line! Then we make cookies and Alex complains because I won't let him have three freaking cookies. Complains! Then the boys play Xbox and Dominick is playing around with the bear in Open Season making the dude go in cicles and the kid is whinning at Dominick to stop because it is making him dizzy!
I don't know. Maybe I'm just a big meanie. Maybe I expect too much. If my memory serves me I was so excited to go to someone's house that I was overly polite and used all of my manners. If Dominick ever did that I would be so upset that he disrespected someone else's house. Thing is that I have Dominick has a close enough relationship with his classmate's parents (um, he is a social butterfly and loves attention and the room mom's love to give it to him) that he would never outwardly be disrespectful like that or I would for sure hear about it.
So am I just a big meanie?
I just don't love everybody else's kids. I love kids that belong to my friend's for the most part, and thankfully for me I don't have many friends because that means I don't have to love very many kids. Yep, that's the first time I've ever been thankful for not having friends!
Dominick had a sleepover this weekend. A kid I had never even met before from the club. Didn't know this kid's parents either but for some strange reason they felt it okay to allow their 9 year old come to my 7 year old's house. Sight unseen. Maybe that isn't so weird and I just need to loosen up?!? Alex was a nice enough kid with a slightly snotty attitude that tried to push my limits more times than I appreciate. Is that just what kids do? This isn't the first time I have had this experience but it really cemented the fact that I am not cut out for being the neighborhood mom, or the neighborhood house.
I started making mini pizza's for the boys and decided we needed to go to the store so we did that. Alex was whinning because I didn't buy him gum! Whinning in the checkout line! Then we make cookies and Alex complains because I won't let him have three freaking cookies. Complains! Then the boys play Xbox and Dominick is playing around with the bear in Open Season making the dude go in cicles and the kid is whinning at Dominick to stop because it is making him dizzy!
I don't know. Maybe I'm just a big meanie. Maybe I expect too much. If my memory serves me I was so excited to go to someone's house that I was overly polite and used all of my manners. If Dominick ever did that I would be so upset that he disrespected someone else's house. Thing is that I have Dominick has a close enough relationship with his classmate's parents (um, he is a social butterfly and loves attention and the room mom's love to give it to him) that he would never outwardly be disrespectful like that or I would for sure hear about it.
So am I just a big meanie?