Typical summer-vacation day
How it works:
7- breakfast
8- Swim Team (sis) (mom's early am park workout)
9- Play at Park
10- Swim Lessons (brother's at a different location)
11- Play at Park (TMI alert: oddly this is also when all 3 have to #2)
Noon Lunch
1- Reading practice or library
2- Play in yard with mom
Then by 3 - kids are totally bored. They start wandering around the house and can't find anything to do except fight or plead for television. (Meanwhile I still have a personal list of about three hundred things that I would like to get done in the day). So to that, I say - NAP TIME!!
wooo-hoo.
So, about mom-wear. I watch all the "what to wear" shows on TLC that attempt to demonstrate that moms can be fashionable - but guess what? not going to happen. There is a reason that moms are spotted in snug T's, lycra capris and cross-trainers. Trendiness, bodies in motion and modesty are the trifecta of train-wrecks.
Low-rise jeans for starters. Belt or no-belt - low rise shorts + a park swing means too much air circulation; crouching to pick up a child who just face planted the sidewalk results in far too much coin-slot exposure.
Snug tops become obscene when you have giant boobs and wearing tank-tops turns a backyard adventure into a scene from Girls Next Door.
And sandals or slip-ons? The high heels goddess has met her match. And he is almost two years old.
7- breakfast
8- Swim Team (sis) (mom's early am park workout)
9- Play at Park
10- Swim Lessons (brother's at a different location)
11- Play at Park (TMI alert: oddly this is also when all 3 have to #2)
Noon Lunch
1- Reading practice or library
2- Play in yard with mom
Then by 3 - kids are totally bored. They start wandering around the house and can't find anything to do except fight or plead for television. (Meanwhile I still have a personal list of about three hundred things that I would like to get done in the day). So to that, I say - NAP TIME!!
wooo-hoo.
So, about mom-wear. I watch all the "what to wear" shows on TLC that attempt to demonstrate that moms can be fashionable - but guess what? not going to happen. There is a reason that moms are spotted in snug T's, lycra capris and cross-trainers. Trendiness, bodies in motion and modesty are the trifecta of train-wrecks.
Low-rise jeans for starters. Belt or no-belt - low rise shorts + a park swing means too much air circulation; crouching to pick up a child who just face planted the sidewalk results in far too much coin-slot exposure.
Snug tops become obscene when you have giant boobs and wearing tank-tops turns a backyard adventure into a scene from Girls Next Door.
And sandals or slip-ons? The high heels goddess has met her match. And he is almost two years old.