I’ve been doing a lot of confessing lately and now I want to hear your slacker mom confessions. No rolling your eyes. You know you’ve got one. Get it off your chest. Let me commiserate with you. Come on, come out and play with me. Let’s make this fun.
That’s right. I’m having a Slacker Mom Confessions Contest and I challenge you to beat my latest slacker mom confession. Remember the poop I left in the tub for three days? (Which I don’t recommend because it requires some major scrubbing to remove it from the tub.)
Here’s the gist of it if you missed the poop in the tub saga. No, it was not my poop. My little Marigrace left me the lovely present during her bath. Being the slacker mom that I am I did not clean it right away. I thought I would get to it later but I forgot and continued to forget as my family grew more and more disgusted. It became the Great Poop Standoff between me and my hubby. There was no way he was going to clean it up. It happened on my shift so it was my mess to clean. I did eventually clean it and now it’s a funny story to tell. I even have a funny baby pooping in the tub video for your viewing pleasure.
So here’s the poop, I mean scoop, on the contest. Leave your slacker mom confession in my comments or write about it on your blog. You can be funny or serious. Let’s let down our hair and poke fun at being a mom. I know I can use some comic relief.
I will choose a winner at random who will receive a Chit Chat and Chew Chocolate Chip Cookie Kit from Chit Chat Brands. I recently learned about this product and it really appealed to me. I’m a big believer of having family traditions and these kits are a great way to start a new family tradition. They encourage bonding through a series of thought-provoking questions and engaging activities.
I have fond memories of chatting while baking with my great-grandma when I was little. I loved asking her about what life was like for her when she was a child or telling her about my day. Having that one on one attention meant the world to me.
Now I occasionally bake with my kids but haven’t done a very good job of making it a fond memory. I often feel too hurried or frazzled. These kits are a helpful reminder to slow down and spend some real quality time with our kids. It’s hard to be a slacker mom when you have Chit Chat Cue Cards guiding you.
Now ‘fess up!
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I am a self professed slacker mom. I answer to Kristie or slackermommy.
My house is a mess, my kids are obnoxious, and my husband is sexually deprived.
I drive my kids to school in my pj's, I can make a couple of Happy Meals from the floor of my car, my kids eat in front of the television, and I believe a dirty house helps kids have a healthy immune system.
If you can relate then this blog is for you. No sugar coating on my blog. Let's get real about being a mommy, wife, sister, and friend.
You can also find me slacking at:
Mamma
September 29th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Hmm this is tough, and not because I’m such a terrific mom but because I’m exhausted.
Oh I got it.
My kindergartner and sixth grader get up, feed themselves breakfast, get dressed and get themeselves ready to walk to school most mornings before I ever get out of bed. I do manage to wake up enough to ensure that teeth were brushed, but I can usually determine that information from a horizontal position.
How’s that for slacker-mommyness??
~JJ!
September 29th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Here ya go.
I fantasize about what my life would have been like if I never got married and had kids.
I mean, I have characters and plots and scenarios that stretch on for days, weeks…Sometimes when she’s playing in the basement, I’ll lie down and begin…and I’ll stay there until she is begging for my attention.
Ahem
Chaotic Joy
September 29th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Oh, I am going to post a link to this contest over at the Worst Mama Ever blog. I am sure the Worst Mamas can give you lots of slacker mom material. Although I am not sure we would know what to do with a mommy/child bonding activity. Hee hee.
http://worstmamaever.blogspot.com/
Summer
September 29th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Here is a link to my most recent slacker mom moment:
http://summersnook.com/2007/09/06/when-i-take-the-day-off/
(It’s a couple weeks old so if it doesn’t qualify for the contest that’s fine)
Chaotic Joy
September 29th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Okay, here’s my official entry.
Last night I stayed up til 1:00 with Husband and drank a couple glasses of wine. Then, this morning my 1 yr old woke me up at 6 because she had her chubbie little thigh wedged in the crib rails. She also woke her 3 yr old brother up. So I plopped them both down on the living room rug with a bowl dry fruitloops and attempted to sleep while they watched Toy Story.
But I was rudely awaken from my sleep again, but my 3 yr old yelling,
“Mommy! Clara just dumped the cereal on the carpet”
“Oh just eat it off the floor” I said and rolled over.
Ahh. Another shining parenting moment.
Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah
September 29th, 2007 at 10:56 am
One time I was so hungover that I gave each of my three year olds a box of Wheat Thins and I went back to bed.
BarnGoddess
September 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
before my riding lawnmower privilage was revoked, I ran over the new and expensive garden hose and cut it into a few pieces.
I quickly pieced it back together then blamed it on the teenager who used to do our weed-eating!
My husband is none the wiser…
Sue
September 29th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I’m sure I have nothing to compete with any ferocity in this contest. I do tend to torture my kids a bit, especially now that they are older. You know, simple things, like talking loudly about their underwear in the store. Or telling tales from when they were babies/little to their now teenage friends. That sort of thing. Oh, and I enjoy the HELL out doing it. Bwahahahaha!
Queen of the Mayhem
September 29th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Oh…there are just so many slacker stories….I can hardly pick just one!
Well, there was the time I skipped my daughter’s ballgame, paid a sitter to watch my son (since my husband was the coach of her team)…just so I could go and have some cocktails with my girlfriends! Yeah…I am supportive like that!
Anonymous
September 29th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I don’t know if non-bloggers can join in on this contest but…. this summer my friend and I were sitting on her porch watching the boys play in the dirt for the third day in a row (they are both 6) and I looked at M and said “I don’t know the last day L had a bath”. M said “I am not sure when D had his last bath either”, we both started laughing and said, at the same time, “Well, they do play in the pool every day, guess that is considered a bath!”. We gave each other a “Mommy of the Year Award” on that one.
Jen
Terri@SteelMagnolia
September 29th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Sounds like fun, girl!
I’ll be back in town on Tueday night…
I’ll be thinking of my slacker ways…
I’m laughing at JJ and Queen!
I think we think the same way.
Jenna Glatzer
September 30th, 2007 at 12:31 am
When she wakes up from a nap, I try to bore her into going back to sleep so I can sleep, too.
Claire
September 30th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Last week the kids and I rode into the country to see the homes in an exclusive gated community that’s recently been built. We were informed that we needed to go that night if we were to be able to get in because the gates were being installed the next morning.
Needless to say, once we got there the middle girl had to pee. There was limited daylight left and many more homes to see so I pulled to the curb, unbuckled her and we slunk behind one of the shrubs beside one of the lovely homes’ driveways. Not being a country girl and used to squatting in the bushes, she wet her clothes.
I was determined to see one of the homes in particular before those gates went up that was located in the rear of the community. So her bottom got wiped with a panty liner I had in my purse and she got strapped back in her car seat. She got to ride through the rest of the posh development naked from the waist down.
carrie
September 30th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I was so engrossed in reading blogs the other night that when my husband asked what was for dinner, after I said “why don’t you decide, for once?”, I went to an online pizza place, made an order, and turned to him and said, “there, dinner is done, it’ll be here in 30 minutes!”.
If that ain’t slackin’, I don’t know what is!
Naomi
September 30th, 2007 at 11:17 am
i let my daughter wear the same dress to preschool three days in a row because I didn’t want to have the toddler meltdown at 7:45.
maggie
September 30th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I’ve always let my kids eat whatever they want on Saturday mornings just so I can get that extra minute of sleep.
“Mom can I have a Snack” yelled into my dark room by one of the little (brats) I mean kiddos
“sure, whatever” I mumble back
“even a fudge pop” they whisper hoping for a yes.
“whatever, close the door, it’s early” I snap back.
So yes by 8 am (the time I’ve never been to sleep past) my kids have usually consumed more pops and candy then I should ever admit.
Jenster
September 30th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Hm… There are so many, where do I start?
I just posted the whole pistachio/accusing my daughter of faking an allergic reaction/night in the hospital thing.
How about this. When she was about four years old we went to the mall. We were excited! We were going to go to Claire’s and the Disney store and eat at Ruby Tuesday’s and maybe get our nails done - fun stuff. We went to Claire’s first and as I was paying for our stuff she said she had to go to the bathroom. I told her we’d go as soon as I finished paying. Then she got a look and I realized it was too late. She wet her pants. She was 4 and I didn’t carry a spare so we had to leave.
I was angry because she obviously had to go when we walked by the bathroom on our way to Claire’s.
So I tried guilting her all the way home - I really wanted with every fiber of my being for her to cry. I wanted contrition. I wanted her to feel remorse. It was all I could do not to tell this preschool child to “squirt some tears, punk!”
And all because she ruined my plans for the day.
Lovely, no?
slouching mom
September 30th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I’m the only mom (of maybe ten) who doesn’t stay to watch my kid (and the other kids) during tae kwon do class. Hell, there’s a Starbucks nearby!
Elaine
September 30th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Since I don’t have kids yet I’ll use a couple from the kids I take care of 3-4 times a week. They are practically like my kids!
First, when the trash overflows, sometimes I just get out a new bag and set it next to the trash. I know, lazy.
Also, I often ask to watch certain movies I know they really like so I can lie down and close my eyes.
Lastly, when I sit for extended periods, I do not pack lunches. I take the $$ for the week and spend it on those nasty lunch-ables!
This is bad. I don’t even have kids yet and I’m burnt out!!
Amanda
September 30th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
my slacker mom, ummm… giving the kids fruit loops and letting them watch tv while I play in bloggy world..
Lawyer Mama
October 1st, 2007 at 10:14 am
Oh dude, I’ve already written about my worst parenting moments and there are MANY to choose from. I have some links for you:
http://lawyermama.blogspot.com/2007/06/wherein-i-admit-that-i-am-bad-mother.html
http://lawyermama.blogspot.com/2007/05/now-with-more-poo-flinging.html
Mert
October 1st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Oh gad, this is so embarrassing… I once didn’t vacuum for over 2 months. the floor was so disgusting that Emma (who was just under 2) ate a cat toenail, a dead lady bug, and a clump of litter one of the cats tracked in from the garage.
Then there is the time I went to a baby showere with my older daughter… yup. I showered her alright. Read it here.
dawn224
October 1st, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I like Sarah’s a LOT.
Um. I’ve had my Medela for 6 weeks and just this weekend realized that the yellow part comes off - it was … um… gross in there. Sigh.
Worker Mommy
October 1st, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Oh these are so fun to read.
I’ve had many slacker mommy moments but my personal favorite was creating “movie day” for my kids so I could sleep off a hangover. I mean they thought it was the coolest thing ever when really I was just being a slack ass.
I moved a tv and dvd player in to their room,gave them some snacks and let them each watch their favorite movies for the bulk of the day.
ewe are here
October 1st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Hmmmm. Well, when our oldest was roughly 10 months to 14 months, after we’d bring him into our bed in the morning with a bottle of milk, we’d let him climb off the bed and take off to play with his ‘ball blast toy’ on his own for 20-30 minutes or so down the hall. 20 minutes of extra sleep is 20 minutes, people! (And we could hear him, that toy was noisy!)
A Buns' life
October 1st, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Gee, just yesterday I was so hung over that the boy pretty much played on the computer all day and the girl laid in bed with me for 80% of the day watching Caillou, while I puked once an hour for about 6 hours. The hubby was in charge, but I have no idea what he did with them, since he was on the couch….you can see my post from today.
Shama-Lama Mama
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:08 am
I put my twins in their high chairs sometimes, give them a trayfull of pick-up food and a fork to play with, turn on Baby Einstein and then I go read blogs!
Peg
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:44 am
So many to choose from…hmm…
OK, clearly one good one is “PJ Day”…which is also “TV day” where the kids are allowed to stay in PJs and vegetate in front of the TV. For many hours. MANY. All in a row!
Lotta
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:25 pm
What can I tell you that won’t have DCFS knocking on my door? I Febreeze my children, does that count? When my son was little he would constantly projectile spit up. And so he was often drenched in the sprayback. At times I would be so desperate to leave the house I would squirt his smelly head with Febreeze.
Bebemiqui
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Here they are:
-When my kids were 6mos and 3 I would stick the little one in an exersaucer, the older would get herself a drink and I would turn on Noggin. And go back to bed for 3 hours.
-My son still occasionally wets his bed and I hate changing the sheets…so I don’t.
Lisa
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Here’s my confession.
The dog threw up in the dining room on the carpet. I let it sit there in hopes she’d eat it and I wouldn’t have to clean it up. She didn’t. She puked again. I was too tired to clean it up. So I just didn’t. But after about a week I just ran the vaccum cleaner over both piles of gunk that was left.
And eventually I did sort of clean up the green marks. But they left stains…. So the next time you come over and see those? You’ll know why.
Lainey-Paney
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
claire———-your post had me laughing!!!!!!!
Linda SS
October 3rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yikes…I once was so engrossed in a tv program that I forgot to pick up my son at pre-school. It was so embarrassing when a half hour later, his teacher called me, because she was stuck waiting with him until I showed up. He now is grown with children of his own & I don’t DARE tell him how neglectful I was of him that day!
Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I am the Mom of 7. There are days that I am completely exhausted from being a refereee, a counselor, a maid, a cook, a hiney wiper, etc.
I’ve accidentally left a diaper on my toddler longer than it needed to be and he got chafed from it. He is just learning that when he is wet he needs to tell Mommy. Well that day he didn’t and I got sidetracked with things… mounds of laundry for one thing and his little hiney was red. Poor guy.
CanCan
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:04 pm
My second child is 7 weeks old. I was feeding him in my own bed two nights ago (I sleep alone for optimal refreshment). He threw up in my bed. Instead of changing the sheets, I just scooted over to another corner of the bed. The next night he had a poopy diaper blowout in my bed. I told my friend and she had to actually ask, “Did you change the sheets THIS time?”
I had to draw the line somewhere.
onlycancan@hotmail.com
Jason and Caryn
October 6th, 2007 at 12:17 am
I have a 3 month old and here is my slacker mom confession: My mom and dad come over twice a month to visit us (mostly to see their grandson) and I “let” my dad clean up the apartment (my husband doesn’t like that I sort of let things pile up for when my dad comes a few days before like dishes and laundry). My mom LOVES her grandson so she ends up watching him while I try to get errands done. I feel really guilty but sometimes I need a break!
Caryn
Candes
October 7th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
My greatest slacker moment was when I found the pan of brownies in my daughters cupboard. (That was a new one to me. Still laugh about it today…) She was doing a “forced cleaning” so she could go to a sleepover. And everything landed in the cupboard. So I stuck the pan the sink to soak and swore she would be cleaning it when she got home. She came home tired after the party, and went to sleep. And me not wanting to look at it anymore cleaned it. I guess I slacked here not holding into my principles. But also wonder what kind of parent raises a child that puts a pan of brownies in their clothes cupboard? LOL…
marshwins
October 7th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Oh boy!!! Man kids were always very independant at getting ready and going to school. I would sleep cuz I worked night. My daughter who is now 28 in about 5th grade……….came home from school, wearing a shirt that the sleeves were REALLy long on her. Gosh how embarassing!!! Boy I slacked!!!
Janice
October 7th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
When my daughter was a baby and I didn’t have a washer and dryer, I forgot her at the launder-mat, I was a whole block away when I remembered her, how awful. Needless to say, hubby bought me a washer and dryer the next week.
SAHMmy Says
October 9th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
The contest is over, so I’ll just say that I could never compete with a tale like yours! And I have to say after reading the comments and confessions, y’all are bad mommies
And thanks for the tips about nursing…a hangover!