Reply #26: I must be a man

[skygazer]

I have 3 kids and I've never done any of this horseshit in my life.

I did NOT ferry my kids to a dozen different events each week. They ate fast food and liked it, damn it!

MY house was a mess, I never cooked regularly, the kids did their own laundry from the time they could reach the machine and the only birthdays I remembered (sometimes) were those of the kids.

I cut their hair myself, bought Hostess cupcakes for the PTA, my house was not decorated and I sure as hell didn't grow flowers.

I didn't have a TV, my kids knew the words to every Pink Floyd song ever written before they were 7. And they did their own damn homework.

I wear jeans and t-shirts and I pity the fool who barfed on them. And when my 6 year old found a tampon in my purse, he was chewed out for being in it in the first place.

I went to a handful of school meetings, never went to church and the "park" was the 800 acres of the farm we lived on. My kids fed themselves, dressed themselves and brushed their own teeth and hair by the time they were in school. Reading is not a chore.

I could not have told you my kids height, weight, shoe or clothes size at any time. I do not know their weight or length at time of birth, I don't recall the time of birth except for my first - I recall that because it was 3 hours after I left work.

Sick kids went to bed and left me the hell alone.

The proper answer to "you're not the boss of me" is "You damn well betcha I am!"

:P

edited to add - my kids are great kids, love me and think I was a terrific mother.