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Not Me Monday

So, I’ve been following this blog McKmama and she has created a fun posting called “Not Me Mondays” where we post our crazy mom stories by being brutaly honest. Some of them are really fun to read and I thought I’d share a few things that I did not do this past week.

I did not stop my daughter Lindy from asking intelligent questions about halloween by telling her to just “eat the candy honey.” Why do we really need to know what halloween is and why people give out candy willingly?

I did not pull out the maternity pants from the closet to try them on because I didn’t want to do the load of laundry sitting in the corner of my room. That said laundry was not climbing up the wall almost taller than me. Nope. I do laundry everyday and stay on top of it.

I overheard Lindy talking to daddy “when mommy’s and daddy’s love each other, they give each other rings for their fingers.” I then did not see her lift her shirt up over her head, point at herself and say “and when I get big, these get bigger too!”

I did not put Lindy in front of Dora at least twice a day so that I could get a few things done around the house. Nope. Not me. I always have non-tv things for Lindy to do and I always have time to read to her every book we own.

I did not wish that my friend had a longer labor, at least 36 hours and maybe a longer stay in the hospital because hers went so perfectly.

We always try to thank God for the food that we are about to eat at the table and thank God for each person at the table. I did not Read more...

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