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  • Embarrassing Mom Moment Of The Month

    Embarrassing Mom moment of the month 😶

    I have all three children with me at Walmart and the worst happened.

    My belly started gurgling and I needed to use the potty… Nope I’m not talking about pee-pee. I’m sure all my moms out there can agree that it is not a pleasant experience toting children into a public bathroom with you. I’m rushing all of them into the biggest stall (ha, rushing? I really meant shoving them because they want to be as slow as humanly possible. While touching everything on the way in there). As I finally get all of them into the stall I clip Lyric into the little chair thing as fast as I can. I hollered for her brother’s to stay right next to her, grab a toilet seat cover and plop down. As I breathe a sigh of relief that I made it, this is the very loud conversation my children had in the echoing public bathroom;

    Landon- Wow Mom you really needed to poop bad! What did you eat?

    Liam- I think Mom ate poop because it smells like poop really bad

    Random shopper- *giggling*

    Me- Boys, be quiet right now!

    Landon- Mom, is it diarrhea or just poop?

    Liam- it’s probably diarrhea because she needed to go really bad!

    THEN IT HAPPENED!!!….

    Landon- *Yells so loud it echoes 10× over!*

    COURTESY FLUUSHHHHH!

    Liam- *almost in a song* Courtesy Fluuuuuush!

    I don’t know how many Random Shoppers but for sure more than one- *laughing out loud*

    Me- 😨😭😲

    After I finished, I waited for a while hoping everybody that witnessed what happened had already left. I walk out of the bathroom and I noticed a pair of familiar shoes from the stall that was next to us standing outside the bathroom. Then as if it wasn’t already bad enough Landon looks up at me and says, “Mom do you feel better? I always feel better after I take a good poop.” 😕

    Oh nothing is sweeter than a child’s honesty 😣

    Credit https://www.facebook.com/lacy.davison.7

  • No Sex For Husband Until Fortnite Goes

    For years I have known I would lose my husband to the football season, when the “game” is on I cannot speak to my other half as all I get is grunts and waving of his arms in response, he cannot look away from the screen and I lose my front room, not that I mind it gives me a chance to visit friends and watch what I want in my bedroom.

    Now football I understand he has always been a huge fan and I knew this when I first met him and I have accepted this part of my life, after all its only 90 odd minutes.

    But a new trend has stolen my husband, a stupid game called Fortnite, my husband rages, screams, cries and acts like a 2-year-old who has dropped his ice cream when he doesn’t win, and celebrates his “victory royale” by recording his achievement and posting it on his Facebook.

    Before Fortnite came along his Facebook profile was full of pictures of us together or funny memes but now he’s become a bloody teenager and its super embarrassing.

    I as a grown woman will not raise my husband that was his mother’s job years ago, I cannot send him to his room when he has a temper tantrum but I can withhold all Sex until he grows up and gets off this stupid game!

    Fortnite is for kids, not grown men, with jobs and responsibilities at this rate we will never be able to make a baby as he’s too busy acting like a child himself.

    I have not “put out” for two weeks so far but I don’t think he has even noticed, this stupid game appears to give him all the things he needs, he gets rid of some testosterone and gets his fill when he wins a game, sad, sad, sad I hope he grows out of it soon before I accidentally smash-up the Playstation.

  • Should We Post Embarrassing Pictures Of Our Children

    Should we post embarrassing pictures of our children onto social media platforms like, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and snapchat.

    Your little ones are so funny, so cute and so mischievous, and parents regularly capture precious moments onto their phones cameras.

    But should we post embarrassing pictures of our children online?

    You know the ones I’m talking about, the two-year old who has smeared poop all over themselves, the little boy covered in make up, the girl with a toilet seat stuck on their head.

    Now I love seeing these photos, they make me smile and even laugh.

    But after speaking with a friend I’m in two minds whether or not we should share these images online, this is what she said to me:

    “imagine your child seeing that photo in years to come, imagine a bully finding it on social media and sharing with all of their peers, embarrassing photos should be for family photo albums only not for the entire internet”.

    Now that got me thinking should we post embarrassing pictures online, are we going to wound our children when they are all grown? are our children going to hate us for posting their childhood stupidity for the world to see?

    I regularly attend a breast-feeding support group and put this debate to them, the majority disagreed with the statement and said it was harmless and every parent embarrasses their child at some point in their life, a few mums didn’t agree with posting any photos at all online.

    So I decided I would ask my children what they thought, I was met with shrugs and mehs from my 4 and 6 year old until I asked my 11-year-old and he said he would not be happy with photos of him online, even as an infant which could cause embarrassment.

    I have now decided any photo which could cause embarrassment or shame are to be printed off and kept in our family album and only pulled out to embarrass my child face to face.

    What do you feel? Is it something personal or are you happy to share on social media, can it affect a child when they grow?

    Let us know your thoughts In the comments

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  • I Will Spend Less Time Viewing My Children Through An App

    When I was growing up back in the 90’s my mother would only bring the disposable camera out for special occasions such as family holidays, first day at school or ready posed photos.

    Looking through my families collection of photographic memories, they are all pleasant, or sweet, myself and my brother playing in a pool, me in the clothes my nanny had knitted, the whole family standing in Trafalgar Square or us all smiling round or Christmas table wearing paper hats.

    Now today, Facebook reminds me of posts I have put up “on this day” in the years since I first joined the social media site.
    I came to realise that I have hardly printed any of these wonderful memories off, I have no hard copy, will my child have to log into my Facebook to see many of their childhood memories?

    Another realisation, all my childhood photos are nice or pleasant, yet many of the photos I have taken of my children will be embarrassing for them in years to come and here I am plastering it all over social media. 

    How many of these photos have I actually been fully involved in?

    How many of these photos have I thought of the perfect caption whilst taking it?

    How many different filters have i tried?

    When did I stop seeing and feeling the moment?

    Today I have decided to spend less time seeing my children through my camera app and more time face to face, actually living the memories rather than documenting them.
    The embarrassing photos will be printed off and kept and not placed on show for everyone to see.

    My children will only be young for so long and although I want phones to keep I also want them to remember me and not the back of my phone, I will find a happy medium.