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Say It Again...Say Anything.
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Re: Say It Again...Say Anything.
This is a factor in the #1 reason I don't apply for one of the 2 vacant HR Director positions in my system even though everyone keeps asking me why I don't.
I have the flexibility to go to those things. And the costume parade this Friday. And the multicultural parade last month. And to chaperone a field trip now and then (4 and up have field trips). I love being an active mom even in these pre-school days and I truly relish how lucky I am to be able to do that.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
All I can say is "Jeez." I don't think mine compares.
I just do not like that I have been the most even tempered person my entire life, and I only know one person that I have ever been truly angry with to the point of yelling. I don't get mad at my friends. I don't fight with my husband. Yet I have regular anger towards my kid. Today I pulled her off from climbing the outside of my client's staircase (along that little narrow edge, holding on to the metal railing) thirty times. I kid you not. And each time, all she did was laugh.
My new mantra is "January. January. January." This is when my friend's preschool is expected to be open, and I can finally get some days to myself.
Ugh--it's infuriating, isn't it??? I have all the respect in the world for moms who can keep their cool through that. Even though I know that it is natural and expected at that age, how can people not lose it when they tell someone 150 times not to do something, and they keep doing it? It sets me off. It still does. Maybe even moreso now, because I know they should be past it by these ages.
I think to myself at least once a day, "I successfully manage seventeen 7 and 8 year olds all day long, how come one 4 year old causes me to loose my cool."
I guess by the end of the day, when I finally get to spend time with my own kid, my patience has worn thin.
This!
I signed up last year at the end of January (for the dash last March). I hadn't run since high school. I started the C25K program, had an injury setback for a couple of weeks, so really only got "trained" for about 5-6 weeks. But I ran that Dash....and actually nosed out my fitness instructor.
My BIL ran in the same wave. He's sooo out of shape I thought he was joking when he said he wanted to do Warrir Dash. He hardly trained at all, and finished the race, too!
My point is that WD is suited for all skill levels! If you want to really dig into it, you have *loads* of time to prepare. If you just want to do it for fun, you can do that, too.
Hope to see ya out there!
i am a big fat wussy and will never do something like the warrior dash because i do not even remotely in any way want to trudge through nasty mud that other sweaty people have been trudging through.
i'm not even the kind of person who gets icked out by germs in general. it's just the mud that grosses me out...lol. also, i can handle having sweat in places, but the thought of having muddy grody sweat in places, and having to keep going, makes me want to hurl. it's the same reason i was too chicken to ever go to any bonfire activities after the first time my clothes got dirty-- you were supposed to wear the same clothes every time and never wash them. "Grodes" was what we called them. NO!
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- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
You deserve it. How is the littlest L doing today?
On one hand, I say you are crazy b/c you can't use it for twins. On the other, I say buy it and sell it on CL for $500.
hmmm....
You can get a rumbleseat for it....
Congrats on having twins!
So Tasty, So Yummy
so Matt encouraged that. done!
Ooooooooooooo crazy childless but plans to have a baby one day BettyJoe wants to hit up that deal. An Uppa stroller is the only ridiculous baby thing I want to buy when my time comes.
Or you could always use it for a bit then return it to Target.
[snicker]
Ha!
I know exactly how you feel. I am usually very mild mannered and even tempered but OMG that little tiny child can make me so angry.
A little stranger breast milk residue never hurt anyone.
I am dealing with this with Mathis a bit right now. He runs around and laughs when he is supposed to be doing things like getting dressed. My sternest look and voice do not phase him. Truitt was way worse behaved but the look or the voice or counting to 3 always worked. Mathis thinks it's all funny.
This is what his all knowing, amazing teacher says: don't get frustrated because it gives him the power. have a totally un-emotional reaction. i know i've told you this before but she says "you're the adult. make it happen." so, what that means if mathis was doing what your DD is: i would walk over, take her down and put her on the floor, offer her something else to do (here are some wooden spoons. can you do X with them?) and walk away.
now, i am ashamed to admit how often i end up yelling to get his attention when he seems to not give a F*. but i also know in the times when i can keep my cool and deal with the repetitiveness of the teacher's method, it does work better. i just keep chanting "don't give him the power" in my head. Ha!
I feel so much better that I don't have the only kid that seems to not care at all when I say something. 90% of the time it's like I speak in a tone that he can't hear. Like a dog whistle.
I need to keep chanting this too! Rena is the same way lately, thinks everything is funny and doesn't listen at all! No look or voice works with her either. And Nanner, I also find it frustrating when she's doing things that I thought we should be past worrying about now...like climbing up on the coffee table and nose-diving off! She's 3.5 years old and should know better!
Cooper is the same way. Sometimes I think he knows when we're trying to redirect or distract him. It is like a challenge to try harder to do what I don't want him to do.
I'll suggest he play with his train or read a book and he looks at me like I'm crazy. Then he climbs over/around/under me to get back to what I'm trying to keep him from. This weekend I asked him 15 times not to touch my car (since it was filthy) and finally I resorted to the "if you touch that car one more time..." and he looked right at me and reached out with one finger, touched it and walked away. Like he tried to say "B!tch, please."
I don't have kids, but I can only imagine.
This made me LOL though! Little brat! (Cute brat, though)
Maddie has been the same way.
But she talks to me like she is 16 and I'm an idiot. I have been feeling really funky lately (since on BC - mood swings, irritable one minute and really depressed another) so I haven't addressed it as much as I'd like because I think I'm going to flip my lid and scream in a scary way or something. I had been blowing her off but this morning when I made her scrambled eggs, grape and apple fruit salad, and canadian bacon for breakfast and she bitched and moaned that she wanted honey nut cheerios (when last week she was moaning that all she gets is cereal any more) I had it! I told her if she talks ugly to me one more time I'm turning off her cartoons. I proceeded to brush her hair while she ate (she slept in so I had to multitask to get her out the door without making DH late) and she yelled at me, "You are going to get my hair in my FOOD!" I just quietly went over and turned off the TV. She pitched a fit and I just did her hair and reminded her that I had warned her and I wasn't having the disrespectful tone any more. She stopped crying and pouted for a while. About 10 minutes later in a very kind and non-whiny voice she apologized for being so ugly. We kissed and hugged and moved on.Lately I've been having to ask for an apology when she does wrong (a la Supernanny) but didn't have to this time so it felt like we made some progress! Ugh.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011