A Facebook friend announced that her (soon to be 2 year old) daughter went pee in the potty. This little girl shares a birthday with BG, and part of me can't believe that this time next year, we could be experiencing this same feat. However, that's getting off course. A friend of her's commented on her status something to the nature of, "What happened to us? We used to be cool and now we're getting excited over things like peeing in the potty." She answered that she's still cool, she's just "mom cool."
My response was, "there's no cooler cool than being mommy cool, either!"
KT is 3 1/2..... seems like forever ago when we could sleep as long as we wanted to sleep on the weekends. We'd eat dinner when we wanted, where we wanted, with whom EVER we wanted. We hung out with friends at our house, at their house, at the bar, at a party, in a different town or even state. We new all of the songs on the radio, the new album from which they were released, when that artist was going to be in concert and probably had tickets to the show.
I was at karaoke at least 2 nights a week..... part of a couple softball teams..... played pick up basketball on saturday mornings....... I even was part of a bowling team.
I had the coolest orange 2 door cavalier.
It was nothing for me to go to 5 Orioles game in a season.
Our money was spent fixing up our house..... a brand new kitchen and deck that was perfect for entertaining friends and family (ok, so it was in a town that we didn't like, but we put a lot of time and effort into that little house).
I was cool.
Or so I thought..............
I traded the cav in for a minivan (ok, so BK drives the minivan, but it still has my license plate). It's even got a Natty Boh family on it.
So we're not going to see Kenny Chesney or Brooks and Dunn or any of the big country acts these days...... We've changed "gears" and now I'm an official "Mover Mama."
I haven't seen much karaoke recently..... instead, we have opted for fire pits and dance parties in our kitchen...... We don't stay up too late, because we all know that the early birds at Dutch Wonderland get to ride the most rides before the crowds come:
We don't have new kitchen cabinets and countertops...... our bathrooms have vinyl floors..... the deck out back has seen better days, but our backyard has a swingset that took MONTHS to find. I do believe that we spent more time planning the perfect swingset than we spent planning out the kitchen in our previous house.
It's a "cool" club that you never truly understand until you've got monsters of your own and can experience it first hand. Yes, this cool club includes the following:
- crying (both by the kids and the parents)
- tantrums (again, both by the kids and the parents)
- lack of sleep - includes in the middle of the night, late nights, early mornings
- poop
- puke
- laundry
- dishes
- there will be a fight regarding food, clothes, bath, bedtime, brushing teeth, wearing shoes, playing with toys, putting toys away and a million other things on a daily basis
- colds/ear infections/rashes
- $$$ spent on formula (if you're lucky, it's the hypo allergenic type), diapers, wipes, daycare, clothes, toys, more clothes, baby gear, baby food, camps, pre-school, activities
- kids going through "stages" that cause any combination of any of these symptoms
- stopping for a few quick errands is no longer an option
- chasing babies and kids up steps, down steps, in corners, in closets, under beds, across the street, through the store, in the minivan, in church, etc etc etc
- scheduling everything around naps, poops, feedings, full moon, crowds, etc etc etc
- failure to go to the mall alone
- failure to go to the grocery store alone
- failure to go to the bathroom alone
- failure to have a minute to yourself
- you will be frustrated out of your mind on more than one occasion
Yes --- that's what you hear (especially as your kid is throwing the world's most awesome temper tantrum or just puked all over you) from people that don't have kids. These people gladly hand your baby back to you after she's pooped the titanic in her diaper and say, "well you have fun with that.... we're going to head out to the bar."
OK, that's cool....you enjoy your night out on the town..... enjoy sleeping in tomorrow morning too!
I'll enjoy this:
And this:
And this:
And this:
And this:
And this:
Proving that "There's no other cool than being mommy cool!"
p.s. - Thank you to Lauren and Amira for the blog idea!
