Confessions

1. I just went a record 8 days without doing my kids' wash. Tonight we had to put my toddler to bed in pajama shorts but a regular t-shirt, and convincing him that could pass as jammies was a challenge!

2. Sometimes when my kids are talking to me I just pretend to listen, nodding occasionally and saying, "Mm-hm" or "Wow!"

3. My oldest turned 7 in February and I still need to schedule his 7 year old check-up with the pediatrician!

4. I've been known to let my kids eat food off the floor.

5. And occasionally I forget to brush their teeth.

6. A few weeks ago I went through the "10 Items or Less" lane at the grocery store with 14 items!

7. I totally rationalized the rule breaking in my mind with, "There are only 2 other lanes opened and several people in line with completely full carts and I have to pick up my son from swim team in 10 minutes!" and I may have even tried to stack my items on the conveyor in such a way so that it appeared I had fewer things!

8. I began embellishing these flip flops weeks ago with a tulle flower, finished 1 flip flop but ran out of tulle and now 4 weeks later? Still, just 1 flip flop done!

9. There wasn't enough homemade chocolate ice cream left-over for us all to have some for dessert tonight, so my husband and I will secretly polish it off while the kids are in bed!

10. During the school year, some days I would set my alarm for 2:40pm because I was afraid otherwise I'd forget to pick up my oldest from elementary school!

11. On Memorial Day while we were at the beach I encouraged my kids to go pee-pee in the ocean because I didn't want to walk them the long walk to the porta potty and because I have a phobia of porta potties and have been known to "hold it" myself for longer than humanly possible just to avoid using one. My encouragement led to a scene where my 4 year old daughter went running towards the water yelling at the top of her lungs, "I'm going to go potty in the ocean!"

12. I've restarted the dryer 2 times while writing this post, not because the clothes are not dry, because they are, but just because I don't feel like getting them out!

13. When my 3rd child was about 8 months old I accidentally sent him off to the church nursery without a diaper on! Completely dressed in church clothes, but just no diaper underneath! To this day I'm not sure how that happened. I was so thankful a few weeks later when he got promoted to an older baby class so I wouldn't have to face the same nursery worker any more!

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