Frustrations!
1. Yesterday, at our homeschool Easter party, we had 4 tables at the park. Well, another homeschool group came over as a big group and just took over our tables. We ended up with 2 of the four but it was just frustrating! I mean, why not talk to us? We would have gladly shared, but to just barge in like that was rude!
2. When people assume I have 3 or 4 or some amount of kids. They aren't all with me at all times so they say "Wow! You have 3 boys!" Which is fine, except then I think, do I correct them? Do I just let them think I only have 3 boys, when really I have 4 and a girl? Then, I decide not to say anything and my daughter comes up saying Mommy and then they're like oh she has a girl too. It's a dumb problem, but it's frustrating sometimes.
3. I hate it when people come up to me and talk about me to my baby. The other day I put some socks on the baby that were a little stretched out and then of course one came off. So people come up and say to the baby "Oh, your mama brings you out with no jacket and only one sock and no shoes." I always think that I should say to the baby "Oh, this lady is so rude, don't look at her ok baby!" If you have something to say to me, look me in the eye and say it, don't say it in sing song voice to my baby!
Maybe that's enough complaining for one day?! :) Thanks for the venting space!
-Julee
Comments
You can always mess with folk when they get like that.
1.) Help yourself to their food and desserts and rave over their kind generosity for adding to your party.
2.) Borrow some extra kids and make a momma parade. Once, many moons ago, I had Funsocksgirl who was 2 and 1/2. She’s very white, with brown hair and eyes. I was babysitting a 4 year-old who was 1/2 Phillipino and 1/2 British and her 9 month-old sister who was 1/2 Phillipino and 1/2 black. I was also babysitting a 5 year-old very black little girl. AND I was quite pregnant.
I took them all with me to WIC. Oh the stares at this “mom” and her rainbow colored brood of children who all OBVIOUSLY had different fathers.
It was hilarious!
3. My friend, Karen had a lady come up to her little baby girl, all dressed in pink with bows and ruffles (that would be the baby, not the lady!) and ask stupidly, “Is it a boy or a girl?”
Karen replied, “It’s too early to tell yet.”
Love #3! Thanks for coming by and commenting on my kindergarten registration post. I appreciated your honesty and encouragement. We are truly taking it a step at a time, and we will keep our options open. Our number one goal is for our children to love God, so anytime we feel something (school, playing sports, anything else) is in the way of that we will be open to changes! Thanks for your comment, and I love your WW picture!
Ah, makes me happy that my kids are older and I’m beyond the point of getting unsolicited advice every time I go out. My dd is 12 1/2 and no one can even begin to claim how to deal with that!! Now when I WANT the advice, no one has any to give. They just shake their head and say “I’m sorry!”
Found you through Carnival of Family Life and listed your post as one of my fav’s on my blog.
Oh, can’t people be so annoying. Some days it just a shame that they’re the only option for forming a society, lol! Vent away!
Visiting late for the Carnival of Family Life.