Today’s Back2Blogging task at SITS is to re-publish a post that you wrote in the past that maybe did not get much attention. This post was originally published in April of 2008 and takes me back to those days I spent juggling three kids under the age of five :
I Spent…
30 seconds chasing down Maile so I could fix her hair.
1 minute brushing it all out nicely while she whined and complained and Kainoa made his way over to my leg.
45 seconds parting it down the middle with two rubber bands in my mouth while Maile and Kainoa whined and complained and Laina got hungry.
2 minutes delicately and carefully placing two little half up ponys evenly at the top of her head while trying to ignore Kainoa climbing up my leg (steady now) whining and complaining with Maile whining and complaining while hungry Laina also whined and complained.
I felt like I either wanted to hurt someone or take a shot of tequila, but instead, I calmly finished my motherly hair fixing duties, picked up the crying baby and got Laina a cracker.
It took Maile about 10 seconds to start pulling out her hair and then begin crying because it was stuck and wouldn’t come all the way out.
All that for nothing.
It took me about 5 seconds to stomp over to Maile, anger and frustration written all over my face and pull the ponys from her hair.
Do you have any idea how HARD it was to not get in her face and yell,
“THERE!!! AND NOW YOUR HAIR LOOKS UGLY!!!!” and then turn around to everyone and scream “IN FACT YOU’RE ALL UGLY!!!! EVERY LAST FREAKING ONE OF YOU!!!”
Alas, I did not.
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You crack me up. Seriously laughing my butt off at this. This is totally how I imagined my mornings going if I had girls. Thank God I had 2 boys. I even shave their hair so I don’t have to put gel in it (well, the 4 yr old. I would never shave a 7 month old!)
Stopping by from SITS. Lovin this challenge :)
My friend shaved her baby’s head when his hair started getting patchy. He actually looked really cute…but I wouldn’t bother with it either.
my daughter refuses to let me put her hair up, so she has a headful of curls fro-ing out half the time. this is hard for my family to deal with because we ALWAYS braid little girls hair, i had braids every day until i was 16. ah the joys of being reservation raised :)
love your blog!
I’m SO glad I have three boys. With shaved heads. SO glad. Come visit my repost today if you get a sec…. I get all freaked out about birds who decide to walk across the street instead of fly. Complete with photos. Because I rule!
I love it! I have been there so many mornings. By the end of the day I wonder what the point was of fixing anyone’s hair!
When I go to the gym in the morning, I take the girls and we all go ugly. The girls in their PJ’s, hair all over. And I don’t even care. I always laugh at all the nicely groomed children. Then when women say how amazed they are that I get there so early, I point to my children. It doesn’t take long to just throw them in the car. What takes long is making them look nice!
So true! It’s easy when we can just throw them in the car in their pjs…throw them a bag of crackers.
AHAHAH!
Doing piggies is not my idea of a good time, and now kate wants braids. she at least will sit for them, but maddie is a different story.
Ha! I don’t have kids yet, but this made me laugh. :)
Love this post! I just had a morning like that with my youngest daughter this morning. It was all I could do to NOT say ” seriously..you REALLY want to go to school looking like a complete idiot?” Fun times.
They just have no clue how ridiculous they are sometimes. Don’t they know we’re only trying to help!?! :)
I can’t imagine juggling three little ones. I have a hard enough time just with my one!
After reading the title, I thought this post was going to be about what to say when your friend has an ugly baby.
Which would come in handy sometimes.
But I like your suggested screaming options.
I’ll keep that in mind.
Ha! That’s a blog post for another day for sure!!
so glad I don’t have to do hair
Kat, you crack me up! Thanks for putting it out there what I’m sure most of us have thought at some point. lol Goodness knows my own frustration shoots up several notches after redoing my wee girl’s hair four times before leaving the house to take her brother to school or when he does his hair, still wet with detangling spray and he puts a hood on….why?!?! Next time (um, sure the hair will be down again in a matter of minutes), I’ll think of your post and get a giggle….a sure fire way to deflate frustration! :>
You are a stronger woman than I because I do yell things like that all the time. ;)
I would love to tell you that I didn’t know how hard it was not to yell that, but I do know how hard it is not to yell something like that. Somedays, I think there are gonna be holes in my tongue from not yelling stuff like that. Thanks for letting me know I’m not the Lone Ranger.
I used to pull my hair down all the time. Drove my mom batty.
I’m sure Olivia will do it to me.
Because karma’s a bitch.
Oh yeah, it’s totally coming your way!
Bahahahahaha! I feel like that sometimes and I only have one kid!
that was SOOOO Funny, because even with boys I feel your pain lately…
toddlers are HARD :)
thanks for the giggle.
Oh man. I remember last year and the year before when Bud was so little and I was having to get Baby Girl’s hair ready in the morning and he just wanted to be held and he would stand next to my leg and scream.
Wait. He did that this morning to.
When does it stop???????????
It doesn’t stop Jennifer.
And this is where the drugs come in.
I am willing to bet I read this post. ;) Ah, back in the day…
I’m sure you did. That’s what old blog friends are for. I had so much fun with you in Philly!!
Wow! Your daughter actually let you fix her hair? I’m impressed – even if it only lasted a few minutes.
Mama always said there’d be days like this . . . that’s’ why there’s bourbon. It definitely gets a bit easier as they get older!
It’s funny, daughter #1 INSISTS on a ponytail while daughter #2 will not let me go near her with one. Always opposites.
Okay, I’m reading reading reading… and then I thought, wow, I never really spent all that much time putting the girls hair up in ponytails. How come? And then I got to the part where the pulling and the crying happened.
Thanks for reminding me why I love being a slacker mom.
;)
No Sugar, you’re a SMART mom! I had to learn the hard way. As usual.
Oh dear. I have definitely had those moments. Especially as the kids got older and more smart-mouthed!
There is satisfaction in the whining sometimes…the more smart mouthed they get the harder I brush. :)
Before I had kids, I used to wonder why moms never bushed their child’s hair. Then I had kids and quickly realized they had.
Sometimes I just restyle Maile’s ponytail without a brush. :)
How frustrating! To be totally honest, I kind of wanted a boy when I was pregnant to avoid precisely these situations. Plus, I’m all of the estrogen our house can take. Little Man, even at 5, will pretty much let me put any clothes on him I want and hair is really a non issue.
Like I’ve said so many times, I wanted a boy precisely for this reason. I don’t ‘do’ hair. Already, fixing my 11 month old daughter’s hair is proving to be a challenge. SIgh. And yelling how ugly she is is not an option, because recently people have been saying how much she’s starting to look like me. LOL. ;)
Man, I remember those days!