I was fishing for compliments from my husband.
“Don’t I look so healthy now? Do I look skinnier to you? Can you believe how sick I was? Didn’t you feel sorry for me? AREN’T I AMAZING!?!?!”
To which he responded with his usual, “hmph”.
To which my oldest daughter responded with “Oh mom you look pretty today! Are you feeling better mom? You look better. I like your shirt mom!”
To which I responded with a flip of the hair at my husband and a “well at least someone appreciates me around here!”
To which my daughter responded by turning to her sister and saying “I’m filling Mommy’s bucket!!”
Suddenly things don’t seem so genuine around here.
Whose bucket have you filled today?
Amy @ Using Our Words says
Filling buckets was the theme of my son’s preschool last year. This year it’s leaving heartprints. It certainly feels a bit forced when kids announce that they’re doing it, but how great that they’re making an effort.
Maybe our husbands just need to repeat preschool?
Mommy Nani Booboo says
Tee hee… I love this.
Can I just strap a bucket to my waist and walk around asking strangers to fill it? Strangers say the nicest things sometimes…
Lynnie says
Or you could tell you could explain to your kids that it is called making a deposit into your love bank. But then it all goes downhill when your husband starts cracking jokes about “making a deposit” or “visiting your love bank”. (At least that’s what happens at my house.) Now I can go and draw porn cartoons.
Jenn says
Filling a bucket-love it! Thanks for the smile :)
Emily Humphries says
thanks for the smile today. I think that’s my husbands standerd answer too when I go fishing for compliments. Good thing my oldest is always there to say of course you look good mom. Ah well at least my six year old likes me. My four year old he’s the brutally honest one who keeps asking me why I’m still fat after having our third little guy. Oh man kids!
Carolyn says
Oh yeah, the man’s standard answer is “uh hu”.
That’s so funny! Your daughter is learning how to “work” the system. AKA: Get what she wants by being sweet.
I haven’t filled too many buckets lately, just mine and my baby’s.
Run with Jess says
Bahahaha! Love this!
Jen says
Well, the buckets gotta get filled somehow. Take it how you can get it. :)
Kmama says
LOL! Your daughter is too funny.
I need my bucket filled.
Diane says
What a sweetie! Love the idea of filling someone’s bucket with compliments.
Sweet Tea says
What a sweet daughter you have!
You’re doing something right – you skinny, good-lookin’ Mama you!
(how did I do?)
kisatrtle says
we call those love tanks around here and I’ll take a heaping pile of crap over an empty love tank anytime. LOL
Shell says
Well, at least she knows the right things to say!
Gaby says
Around my house we call it the “love tank” a la Five Love Languages book. But same concept, same result: you feel loved and appreciated. Your daughter is adorable!
Arlett (Chasing Joy) says
Love this!!! LOL
chatterbox says
Your daughter knows the right things to say at the right time :)
Loved this!!
misty says
So sweet though… i do love that book!
Georgia Girls says
I love that she thought of that expression! We all need help filling our buckets, especially when they get holes in them.
Mrs4444 says
We girls…always bucket-filling…That’s really sweet :)
Tracy Wilson says
My 10 year old man in the making informed me this morning that 152 pounds wasnt a bad weight for SOMEONE MY AGE…
and yesterday he told me that you could still be old, & pretty. Look at Gramma.
Thanks.
Jana says
So sweet! My daughters are always more tuned into what’s going on with me than anyone else. I love when they drop everything and give me a squeeze when I most need it. I love the “filling your bucket” expression. We’re going to start using that.