Bad Mommy...

I suck. Poor Roan had to miss preschool this morning because her dumb mom, who was up late playing Warcraft, thought she had set the alarm but managed to screw it up. I thought the little round light was the “alarm on” light, but really it was the “am” light. In my defense, it’s a dual alarm clock, so there are lots of little lights. Well, ok, three lights, but that’s one to many. I had to keep her home last Wednesday because she wasn’t getting enough sleep (up coughing at night) and was acting kind of weird and spaced out during the day.

I’m going to chalk up my alarm clock error to being sick, AGAIN. I just had a cold two weeks ago. I managed to get over that one pretty quickly, which I now realize was only so I could catch another one right away. I think poor baby Sage has had a runny nose the whole time. She loves to come up and wipe it on me. She usually aims for my pants leg or a sleeve and then burrows her head in and turns her face to one side. She has technique.

I took the kids to the park last week and got to (over)hear a disturbing conversation between three moms. Firstly they were all pretty thin, probably like size 2 thin. They were talking about their kids and their kids weight and how their kids eat. One of them has a daughter and the mom obviously was concerned about her weight. I guess the kid likes to wear stuff that’s a little on the small side (being a young kid, she’s rightfully not concerned about her weight) to the dismay of her parents. They were also talking about how their kids would eat a whole plate of chicken nuggets and one of the mom’s told about how she would tell her kid not to eat so much. Did I say they were all really concerned about raising kids (one of them has three daughters) with eating disorders? At least two of them talked about how all of their roommates in college were bulimic (but they didn’t say bulimic, just said that they “threw up”). They were standing right behind me (I was sitting by the sandbox). One of them also talked about her husband’s fat sister and other fat people. They were talking about this for at least 20 minutes. I wanted to turn around and yell at them. I also felt sorry for their kids. Kids shouldn’t diet. They should eat healthy stuff and get lots of exercise. This is a challenge. It can be hard to get Roan to eat anything and when we go to the park, they both want to ride the swing for an hour. Also, kids tend to put on weight (especially around their tummies) when they’re about to grow. We’ve all seen it. Kid is a little chubby, next time you see him he’s taller an thinner. I doubt any of these women have kids that are even close to obese, yet they were all so concerned about it.