Maggie and my oldest have been in Vermont since Friday, and are coming back tomorrow. I’m home with my two youngest. I haven’t had any time to post, and barely any time to read my fave blogs.
Single parents, how the hell you do it day after day after day? You’re AMAZING.
Love to all. Even you, the Mom in the pew who wouldn’t let her kid talk before Mass.
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March 30th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Dude. Have fun! I don’t know how single parents do it either. I’m in awe of them. Enjoy your time with the kiddos.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Wow, that’s like guaranteeing that your kids will talk DURING church, isn’t it?
March 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I wonder the same thing, when Mr. Po goes out of town for work. But then, it’s probably like all the child-less people who always go, “I don’t know how you manage with kids!” or the people who hear stories about how my kids never slept as babies and say, “Oh, I could never handle that! I need MY sleep!” Like I freaking don’t?
You step up when you have to, when you’re a good parent, as you so obviously are. Luckily, tomorrow is a school day :).
March 31st, 2008 at 6:44 am
Isn’t it AMAZING?! Mr. Chili and I each get little tastes of single parenting (he when I go to YNG weekends, I when he travels for work) and we both come back together with a FAR greater appreciation for how much the other contributes on a day-to-day basis. I think it’s nice to get that reminder every once in a while; we tend to take each other for granted.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:08 am
Way to go Dad! Single parenthood is so very tough - I was a “single” parent with an alcoholic husband. Strange huh? We are actually like chameleons and learn to adapt well to the situations. Mrs. Chili said it best - reminder that “we tend to take each other for granted.” Your kids will look back with love and appreciation some day.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am
hahahahahahahahahaha
This brings back memories of dragging my kids to church when they were all small, threatening them all within an inch of their lives on the way there, then strategically seating them so that Miss britt and I were between the two boys, who would be touching each other otherwise. Just touching each other. Which apparently was enough to start World War III.
I remember coming out of church every week frazzled and tense, and those coo-ing ladies telling me what a “nice family” I had, how “well behaved” the children were, etc.
I also remember taking my youngest son, then 2 and obsessed with guns, up to the altar (they had those then) for Communion with me, and him whipping out his red squirt gun and pointing it at the priest when our turn came.
Lord!
March 31st, 2008 at 8:59 am
I got just a taste of this a few weeks ago when Scott went out with friends after work and I tried to take both boys with me to have dinner with my MOMS Club group (all of whom had their husbands with them). By the time we got home I was in tears because the baby was so wild and I couldn’t manage both kids and manage to eat my dinner. All I could think was how do single moms or dads do this day in and day out.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Fun! I hope you hang in there! Sounds like fun for Maggie and the oldest, that’s awesome for the both of them.
When my husband is gone, it is always so hard and I always think the same thing… how do single parents do it?
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My kids are like bear cubs at church, bear cubs with potty mouths. When my oldest was two, he said “shit” very loudly three times in a row as I was running out the congregation. The next week he stood up and yelled ’slave take off your mask” from the movie Gladiator. My youngest (who is two) called a teenager a “penis” yesterday. Luckily it was a boy teenager and he is a pretty snarky teenager. The joys of motherhood
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?