10. My body image
9. My children fighting
8. The 3-foot radius of pee around the toilet
7. Grocery shopping–how I loathe thee
6. The fact that our dog is in HEAT–ew!
5. Having zero time to wake.up.alone and adjust to the day and sip my coffee and take a deep breath UNLESS I get up before the kids at 5 am. But then how would I get in the me-time the night before, when I stay up too late cause I don’t want to go to bed cause I don’t want the day to start all over again with the same needy children beckoning for this and that and everything….
4. My prematurely grey hair–roots, people, I’ve got GREY ROOTS–not pretty
3. Scheduling. I’m trying–really trying–to get this one down for the benefit of everyone who knows me. But it’s hard, yo! And now that I realize it’s so hard I’m starting to get a complex about the possibility that I am just adverse to commitment. Could that be so? Blehg!
2. Writing. I’m having a rough time of it lately, if you haven’t noticed
1. My body image. Yup, it’s a repeat, ’cause it tops the list and ends the list and is always on my mind. I’ve got enough material bumbling around up there for a freaking dissertation on the female body but please see #2 and give me some leniency here (cause simple lists are writing too, right?)
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Are you looking for the !!! today and sad you stumbled on such a grumpy post? Sooowwwwweeeee. How ’bout I send a little retro-!!! your way? Will that do it for you? Please excuse the crappy quality of this picture and instead soak up the stylish knee socks and my Cabbage Patch doll, Tammy. Oh how I loved that red-haired wonder with the autographed butt cheek.
Link up or share some !!! with us in a comment.
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Sarah – Just for you! If I were near, I would stick a Post-it note near you that says: “You are wonderful just the way you are! OperationBeautiful.com”
Oh my heavens….don’t you know that Jen and I made MOMALOM post-it notes for Blogher??? Sucks that you won’t be there, lady. I’m gonna send you some, though! Cause you are the freakin’ best!
Enjoy BlogHer! I am sad :( that I won’t be there with you all but I will be looking for your tweets throughout.
Off to get dressed and go to Starbucks to meet Sarah, Maria and Christine on their way down from the Great North!
I totally have to agree with you on most stuff. I can appreciate a nice rant post instead of all the perfect mummy posts lately. Your post made me feel more normal. :D
Have a great day!
Ah, normal! Thank you for this blissful comment. Life is hard, yo! And too real sometimes. The crap we have to deal with as moms. I’m pretty much OVER IT right now. Need a break, ya know? But then again, it seems like I’m ALWAYS saying that….
ugh.
Your list has so many of the things on my list. Clearly we need to have a cathartic drink together. xo
Yes! Clearly!
Drinks are always on my !!! list. Drinks with friends? Absolutely better than drinks alone… :)
I have been posting on similar “grievances” this week as well. Man – can I relate to ALL this – the coffee in the am has been a big deal for me – feel like I’ve been assaulted lately…… And – my 4 year old broke the automatic door in our local Trader Joe’s this week. Needless to say, we left in shame (and need to go again today – yikes – I have 4 total – one at camp – 3 with me – ages 5,4,2). Love this post….. thanks :-).
Post was spot on today, it’s good to know that other moms all over the country feel the same way I do. Helps me feel alittle less guility when I’m dreading the monotony of tomorrow.
Then again everyday holds some sort of surprise !!! Somedays we just need to search longer and harder than others.
Thought of something that could make the list or at least it makes mine:
Never being left alone to use the bathroom.
I can relate to all of these points, but especially the lack of ‘me’ time. When my kids were the age yours are, they got up so early there was no way I could get up earlier for some time, and I had to go to bed early because of the early rising. It was so frustrating, but it IS better now. They sleep longer and I’m able to get up at 6 and get that time in.
Ah, cabbage patch dolls. Mine was named Colleen.
Hi, new here, but love it!! You redesigned a website that I really liked, and that’s how I found you.
Numbers 5 and 7 do me in every single time. It’s that get up and go NOW that I’ve never adjusted to.
Well said.
Freakin’ body image. How come all the boobalicious sank to the middle. And what’s with the Back Fat??!! And why didn’t I enjoy the skinny while I had it?
But on another note, the Shaggy and Tammy picture made my day. Maybe not stylish by today’s standard, but you were definitely “in” my deah. Or, better yet, didn’t care. Whatever happened to Tammy anyway?
xxoo mama
So, except for the fact we don’t have a dog, I could write the exact same list. Exact. As in, this is kind of creeping me out…but, in a good way.
I also had an eerily similar Cabbage Patch Doll as a kid. Also, the knee socks.
Cue the Twilight Zone music people.
Some times in our lives seem to serve the purpose of being the backdrop to joy…the rough, grumpy times that make the happy times happier simply by contrast. Miserable, but in a way necessary. That’s what I tell myself as I’m covertly sneaking chocolate chips out of the pantry anyway…
I think you need to rephrase and say “things you haven’t come to terms with yet”. Not can’t. Because you can. And you will.
For me, you struck a chord with body image, kids fighting (makes me go ballistic every time), and that oh-so-precious “me” time. It get worse when the kids get older. My oldest now stays up later than me at times. That really sucks.
Body image, that’s at the top and bottom of my list too.
10, 8, 2…right there with ya sister. The body image business….oh how I long for it to go away so I can just be content. I’m trying so hard!!
And I still love my Cabbage Patch girl Hyacinthia with all my heart. :)
I meant 10, 8, 1!! ;)
I’d TOTALLY forgotten that the butt cheek was autographed! Mine was named Audrey and had brown hair.
I hear the body image thing. And the writing. Girl, you are not alone.
You are not alone about the body image. Ugh.
As for #8….the pee? My son just started using the big boy potty and I’m dreading the radius of pee you described. Another ugh.
I have this perpetual summer’s writer block. I am hoping it gets better when my little one starts school. And #5 – oh, how I relate to the late nights and too too early mornings for some me time.
Sarah, you could have fooled me! Having trouble writing with a great post like this, and one that could start a meme all by itself? Hard to believe. But funny, very funny, the bathroom problems, the early risers. I need to make a list post just like this.
The pee gets me everytime. The rest I can block out, but the pee demands attention.
ok, sometimes the bitching about stuff that needs bitching about is the !!! And the whole body image thing, right there with you. Why did I think I was fat when I could see my clearly defined cheekbones and collarbones? And the grey roots? Don’t get me started. My hairdresser can’t keep up and I don’t know that I can afford to at the rate I’m going…Maybe it’s because we each have three boys, hmm?
Have a blast a BlogHer…maybe next year for me…
All understandable. All tiring. And not that grumpy.
But maybe you set the bar too high, expecting too much of yourself? (Don’t we all? And I’m one to talk…)
Mine was Ivy Glorina. Oh, how I loved her! And she never peed on the floor, so far as I know. =>
Sending good wishes and particularly encouraging you to imagine the feeling you would have if you were to come to terms with all nine items. Conjure that feeling and stick with the feeling and the items might not only resolve but guide you closer to your true Self. In the meantime, hoping you might feel connected in the journey (your authentic self-expression echoes what so many feel and do not say).
BTW, interesting list if you link it to pure feelings (i.e. fighting is external conflict; body image is internal conflict; pee relates to pissed/anger/; time, shopping, grey hair all relate to mortality and the finite nature of our discrete lives; dog in heat relates to animal desire/natural instincts, and writing relates to your need to self-express, love, connect and trust… which is just what you are doing with this post).
Perhaps your feelings and your list are guiding you naturally ever-onward to your own right path.
OH scheduling, how I fear thee. I almost can’t commit to fun things, much less the dreaded exercise video or trip to the grocery. Oy.
Oh my goodness – I think your Tammy must be the sister of my Emma. I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll SO BAD and finally got her from my grandparents for Christmas when I was 5. Emma saw some rough years, but stood by me nonetheless.
Some days (weeks) are hard and you just want to grab your cabbage patch doll and hang on tight!
A dog in heat…is never fun!
Katybeth
Grey hair, grey hair, grey hair… Since I was 25 and it only gets worse by the day. Thank god for hair color!