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1. Saying "I'll be right back, I've got to go tee tee" to my husband's childless co-workers at dinner.
2. Letting your son go to preschool wearing his Halloween dinosaur costume in May so you won't stifle his creativity.
3. Listening to your child's friends in carpool fight over whose turn it is to sit in the melted gummy worm stain you forgot to clean off your back seat for weeks on end. MORE ...

4. Picking your child up in carpool line with a missing hubcap on the side facing his teachers for weeks on end.
5. Risking rear-ending the Lexus SUV in front of you because carpool line is the only time you have to read the novel you started a year ago.
6. Having the urge to put the playground bully in a head-lock when you see him push your kid off the slide.
7. Having the urge to put the soccer coach in a head-lock when he's playing your kid on second string.
8. Regretting teaching your children correct anatomical names for their "private parts" when they are not so privately yelled out in the grocery store.
9. Laughing in the face of your child's doctor when he mistakenly thinks your vomit covered sweater is a "tie-dyed" T-shirt.
10. Finishing off your child's Easter chocolates and blaming the dog.

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63913

Comment

I love it. Here's some more 1) Hiding your child's favorite winter sweater out of reach in the closet (because it's 80 degrees outside and YOU CAN"T WEAR IT) and they FIND it 2) PUlling in late to every kid-oriented lesson/meeting/event because you keep forgetting to reset the clocks from when the power went out and ahve to go by the stove timer and your cell phone to know what time it is 3) Not having a big enough refridgerator for all the kids' artwork they bring home from school! 4) Not letting the kids play with watercolors in the den because you're having your mother-in-law over next week 5) Seeing your own neuroses and personality quirks come out in your children ("Oh, they got that from your side of the family, not mine, honey") I could go on. But these immediately come to mind. You know what? It's all still worth it.

Author

JW

Date

2003-05-07T14:36:49-06:00