Playschool meeting

[la_rainette]

Well, it wasn't fascinating. It was interesting, though. It reminded me that I have a natural tendency to assume people are better than what they actually are - I always hesitate to expect the worst of someone just because my instincts are screaming bloody murder.

Well.

I should know better, by now.

I often get accused of being too nice for my own good. How lame is that? Fact is, I believe it is true. I believe I should learn how to say no once in a while, and mean it.

Also, my first reaction when I stumbled in the dark and almost broke my neck was "ah, heck, it's full moon and I can't see well enough, am going to get eaten by the first stray werewolf."

Yeah, I know.

And then I came home to two girls sound asleep and one exhausted Husband, who complained about the whole situation. What do you mean, baby sitting is hard? I do it every night. Also, when I put them to bed, they are usually both wearing nightshirts. How come Winnie the Pooh was wearing Tadpole's when I came back, then? And, and, and, how come they were both covered in glow-in-the-dark sponge bob band-aids? Tadpole looked like a freakin christmas tree in a diaper. WTF?

Where, when, how did I get stuck with that life, I wonder?

Don't mind me, am a little blue. The blue frog icon is by the lovely setissma.

Comments

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you. It's good to hear that once in a while (funny how scarce marks of appreciation are when you do a job that is not immediately and obviously productive, now, isn't it?)

It's true. We don't get enough respect for that.

[notions.livejournal.com]

*hugs* mothers are severly under appreciated. It will get worse, maybe, when your kids are my age and you can't do anything right, but think of the good times. When they come up and give you a kiss or a hug, or say "je t'aime Maman" or whatever they say, or want to play a game with you. They need you to be their mum, and they will in return love you forever. It's a hard job...but someone has to do it. And Froglet and Tadpole are lucky they got someone as great as you. :D
grosses bises, ~a

[notions.livejournal.com]

::facepalm:: that would be severely. and the little ones here have been crying full speed for the past 30 min. I don't know how you (and mothers in general) do it full time.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

We are all a little crazy. Not so's you'd notice right away, but even by ourselves, running to the grocery store, we can see the signs in each other. Hearing a train, and lifting our heads, mouthing "choo-choo!" is a big one: stuff like that.

[notions.livejournal.com]

hehe! My brother and sister are a lot younger than me, so I get a little of that. I notice every fire truck in our town (and run through my brother's speech about them - "because there gonna be fire fighters and the fire and a siren bring-bring gonna be loud!" etc) ^_^

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

XD!

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words... yes, I do get my fair share of "je t'aime, maman". Yestarday, I pleaded with Tadpole to get one kiss, just one. Mais juste un, she said, pas deux: juste un. And then she gave me a dozen sticky kisses anyway. :D

Well, we do it, and we do it willingly, and we're happy to do it most of the time. I think the big catch is the under- appreciation we get.

[notions.livejournal.com]

Mais juste un, she said, pas deux: juste un. And then she gave me a dozen sticky kisses anyway. :D
::melts::

I hereby declare, um..every day! to be Mother Appreciation Day! *appreciates you*

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*is appreciated and glows*

You know, I believe this is why Mother's Day was invented. And then some marketing guy realized what a GREAT business idea that was, and invented Father's day, grandparent's day and whatnot.

[notions.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we all know that it's the mothers who really deserve it. They probably thought of having Mother's Day every day but then decided that the world would, as a result, fall apart.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*nods* so many moms having breakfast in bed :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

The injustice is astounding. I'll get dirty looks for some little thing undone, a "what did you DO all day?" and yet can come home to kids sleeping in their clothes with suckers stuck in their hair...yeah. I feel it.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I mean, OK, it's our job, we do it... But anyone who does a directly productive job gets told once in a while that he/she does a good job - or gets a raise, which amounts to the same. We don't. But do we ever get picked on if one thing goes wrong!

< / rant > :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

GAH!

I could go on, but I won't.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The list is just too bloody long.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

(And? Makes me madder and madder. Conveniently forgetting, of course, the LONG list of crap my Lord Husband has to put up with, too.)

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

And, and, and, how come they were both covered in glow-in-the-dark sponge bob band-aids? Tadpole looked like a freakin christmas tree in a diaper. WTF?

But...it's such a cute mental image!

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Cute mental image, I agree. But then you get to take the band-aids off in the morning... and that hurts (them and you when they fight you and shriek)

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

I'm a bad mommy...I clean the wound, apply the band-aid, and don't think about it again until it falls off. Usually only a day or two, in the bath. If there is no wound (and we went through that phase, too) so what? The band-aid stays until it leaves of its own accord. Life is too short to rip off your children's epidermal layer.

And there's a sentence I never expected to type.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*snorts*

I need an icon with that sentence. No, no, WE need an icon with that sentence. Any way you could do that, Terry? What can I bribe you with?

Yeah, I agree, I do that too most of the time. Only, they had too many this time. School would have launched the Children's Aid Society on me, for hurting my kids (there wasn't anything under the band-aids, but they're not supposed to know that).

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Do you have a picture of Tadpole screaming? Or Froglet. Otherwise I'll just use a random Googled child.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

I sent you something per email. Thanks so much! :D