….Talk is cheap….take it with a pinch of salt!
Tee has of late been playing the Hubs and I off each other, but if she thinks she can get away with her tricks, she is sadly mistaken. I must admit though that the Hubs is a bigger sucker for his daughter than I am.
Today, I was nagging her to drink more water as she has a bad habit of not drinking and she said no, she has to drink chocolate milk. Because DADDY insists that she needs to drink more milk.
Yesterday, I told her to put her dirty clothes into the laundry basket when I saw that she’d thrown them onto the bedroom floor. She said no, she wants to do it DADDY’S way. DADDY says she can throw it on the floor and he will pick up the pile and take it to the laundry area behind.
The other day, whilst I was brushing her teeth, she complained that I didn’t put a towel underneath her bum (she sits on the bathroom counter) but DADDY always did (to keep her butt from getting cold from the marble top) and DADDY would put his hand under her chin as a scoop to scoop up her dribbly toothpasted saliva so it wouldn’t soil her pyjamas.
Well, SCREW DADDY cuz’ I’m NOT DADDY!!!
On the contrary, she ran to me in the bedroom one day whilst the Hubs was in the study to ask me if she could go swimming and go out for lunch. I totally ignored her as I was dead beat, half asleep. Later, when I woke up, there was nobody in the house. I called the Hubs to ask where the hell they were and he said that SHE said that I said it was OK for them to go out for lunch and a swim!!! I was freaking pissed!!!
I warned him that he should always check with ME first and not just listen to HER.
Once upon a time, I designed buildings and interiors of corporate offices and on the rare occasion, homes. Now, I clean poop and am student of a patience management course. From the drawing board as a London Architect to the realities of Motherhood, I have certainly learned many lessons in humility. And then others.....
To succeed in the corporate world, first succeed with your kid as the happy boss. Seriously.
This blog is about me, Mamapumpkin. A crazy, demented Mom who cares full time, alone, without any help, for an even crazier preschooler AND a baby with a boob addiction problem. *sniff* Someone, please get me a chair.......
I write anything that comes out of my head, mostly without thinking first, which almost always gets me into trouble (according to my husband, also known as the love of my life.......on a good day).
My pet monkeys drive me towards challenge after challenge, 24/7.
Gotta love it.
Contact me : Mamapumpkin at gmail dot com
mott (43 comments.)
April 15th, 2009 at 11:26 am
oh boy..daddy’s not gonna get some lovin’ tonite!
miche (63 comments.)
April 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
the last paragraph is so common with my kids. they know i would say NO (to whatever lar), so now they dont bother asking me. they will go straight to their grandma n kakak saying “Mommy cakap Boleh.” even though i warned these 2 fler to check with me, they still follow my kids’ demands. if they were younger than me, sure kena lecture d! haha.
Lian's Parenting Tips (38 comments.)
April 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Looks like mommy and daddy have to come up with a new strategy. Counterattack!
supermummy (1 comments.)
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