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Parenting Confessional – Part 3

1. On Monday, Wito’s lunch consisted of some Cheerios and string cheese because I wanted to eat HIS beloved leftovers from a Mexican restaurant the night before.

2. I get secretly pissed when he announces that he doesn’t like the song playing in my car. I HAVE STELLAR TASTE IN MUSIC, KID. ONE DAY YOU WILL REALIZE THAT.

3. Wito calls cereal bars (Nutri-Grain bars and such) “handlebars”. I know I am supposed to correct him, but there is nothing cuter than a kid asking for a strawberry handlebar. Carry on, son!

4. If I’m looking like a disheveled mess and/or hobo and need to run errands, I prefer to take Wito so that strangers will assume I look this way from being an overworked parent. Truth is, I probably spent all of my primping time reading Harper’s Bazaar and rearranging my shoe collection.

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  1. holly

    May 21, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    ha! i wouldn’t correct him either. handlebars, gahhh love it

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  2. Jill

    May 21, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Ha! I do that last one too. I caught a glimpse of myself in the Target doors the other day and realized I looked like a hot mess. But then I quickly consoled myself with the notion that I had my kids with me so I was expected to look like that. At least their faces were clean. I’m always forgetting to clean their faces after they eat.

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  3. Kaleigha

    May 21, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    What’s worse is when you don’t have a kid as an excuse and look disheveled to boot.:)

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  4. hi kooky

    May 21, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Hobo!

  5. Gretchen

    May 21, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Handlebars! HA! That’s even funnier than the fact that Scott calls Nutrigrain bars Graitrinune bars.

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  6. Kristin

    May 21, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Love the handlebars! My little girl is close in age to Wito – love reading your posts about him :)
    I don’t correct some things she says either – I figure eventually she’ll figure it out and then I’ll be sad that she doesn’t say it that way. For example: we have a grey remote for our TV and she calls it the ‘grass kah-mote.’ LOVE it!

  7. Deidre

    May 21, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    I called appendages falling asleep being “dizzy” for years and no one corrected me (I also called risotto – Rosetta but I was a lot older…) Handlebars is adorable.

    I had tater tots for breakfast because I wanted a vehicle for organic ketchup. Also, I’ve been hanging out in my PJs all day until about 5 when I have to go to class. It’s a pathetic existence.

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  8. Robin Gedman

    May 21, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    My 4 year old daughter calls littering “glittering” and I think it is so cute. She talks about how bad it is to glitter and even lectures people on it. I don’t agree with her though, the world might be a much prettier place if people glittered. :)

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  9. rachel

    May 21, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    I really love the new parent confessional posts. hilarious.

  10. Linda

    May 21, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    My four year old son calls girls “grills”, and I can’t bring myself to correct him either!

  11. sizzle

    May 21, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    I kind of can’t imagine you looking like a mess honestly. As if! :-)

    Handlebars is so cute.

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  12. metalia

    May 21, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Duuuude. Strawberry Handlebar could totally be a band. A great one, at that.

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  13. Rhi

    May 21, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    The handlebars thing reminds me that my best friends kid used to call yogurt ‘ogrit’ and how very sad I was when he learned to say the word correctly. Also sad? He no longer calls me “Annie Wee”, he can actually say Rhiannon.

    SOB!

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  14. gorillabuns

    May 22, 2009 at 9:31 am

    I’ve worn the same pair of pants for three or four days straight. No make-up. You can only guess what my hair looks like. Sadly, I HAVE BEEN GOING INTO PUBLIC LIKE THIS!

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  15. Stephanie

    May 22, 2009 at 10:47 am

    Like your number four, I find that I can get away with returning things without receipts if I have my kids with me– you know, harried mom with young kids, I’m sure she misplaced it!

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