MOMMY!!!

My entire life all I wanted to be was a mom.  I didn't even really care about what my actual degree was in because I just wanted to stay home and take care of babies.  I loved babies, and toddlers, and any age child.  I would judge people on their parenting because in my mind it was going to be the greatest most perfect time in my life and there would be no downside whatsoever!!  If a parent was being mean to their child or ignoring their child I would glare at them for being selfish heartless beings. 

I just want to go ahead and put this out there....I was wrong. 

Not completely, I want to say because I still judge selfish parenting.  There is most definitely a difference between not listening to a child screaming mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy because they want their 14th treat of the day, and the parent that has their child at Walmart at 12:30 AM and the poor child is just crying because they should be at home in bed!! 

Can someone please explain to me why it is that you have to purchase a license to fish, you have to have license to drive a car, you have to be a certain age to vote, to smoke, to drink but if you want to  create another human being at any age...by all means.  Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I want some sort of communist government or anything I'm just saying that if a person is going to take on parenting I feel they should at least pass a quiz. 

I love my children, but since we are being completely honest sometimes I don't like my children.  Like when I have asked that they hang their towel or put their dirty clothes in the hamper and yet day after day this life mystery seems to elude them.  How about when they get mad at me because I won't allow them to have something sugary when all they have had that day is a festival of carbohydrates and crap.  My personal favorite is when they tell me I am wrong.  Just so we are clear....I'm not wrong.  If I am wrong I admit it, but typically if we are dealing with the knowledge base of a child 13 years or younger or an over 40 year old woman who has held a job and has a mortgage and my money is going to be on the 40 something every single time. (Unless we are talking about pop culture or electronics and lets me honest I don't have a dog in that fight anyway.) 

Parenting is hard. It isn't all coloring and baking.   If you want to color you have to be ready for them to be over it way before you are, and if you want to bake you have to realize that there is going to be a mess.  I am very thankful for my children.  I have loved every stage that we have encountered together.  Funny how I don't have any desire to go back and repeat a stage. Can I just suggest that if you aren't sure if you are ready to be a parent, or if you even want to be a parent that you get a puppy first.  See how that goes for you, if you get annoyed by needing to take them outside to go to the bathroom or by the way they smell or are mad that they chewed your coffee table... parenting just might not be your thing.