A Slacker Mom......

I was waiting for my child to get out of school today and I went into the book fair that was going on at the school. I was talking to this one friend of mine who, let's be honest, used to intimidate me. She just has her crap together, you know? She has 4 kids, a spotless house, skinny (yes, after 4 kids no less!), a nice person, AND helps out a few times a week at school and is heavily involved in the PTA. Now damn, wouldn't YOU be intimidated by that? When I'm next to her, hell yea, I feel like a slacker mom! I should be baking something right now instead of sitting her on the computer typing on this blog!

She was showing me this book, "Confessions of a Slacker Mom", joking with me, yea, this is you, huh! Well............ I would say that I used to be that, and hell yea, I sometimes still am! I do feel like I've come a long way from vegging out a lot.

I would love to NOT be able to clean my house! I would love to be able to NOT cook dinner. I love my children with ALL my heart, but yea, sometimes I'd sure like a nanny when I'm in a mood....

I'm sure everyone out there has someone they know that is just intimidating to them. When I first met her, she definitely was intimidating to me, with ALL the stuff she does, and makes it look so easy!

I've definitely organized myself a lot more than I did last year. My little one is a year older and more apt to help and listen (is that possible?), I'm off my butt more (no, seriously I am, I don't ALWAYS spend my time on the computer), dinner's just about ready when hubby comes home, I'm trying to work on my crafts more, the house is picked up more. The only thing I slack on, and I'll freely admit it, is cleaning. That is just one thing I loathe doing, but once I do it, I love doing it! It's a love/hate relationship I've got going with the cleaning thing. I used to know this friend who cleaned her floors EVERY day, repaint her baseboards once a month, and her house was spotless! I'd love to be able to do that! Of course she yelled at her kids quite often too. I'd rather not have a spotless house and not yell at my kids. I do have to say my hosue is a lot cleaner than it used to be. I'm not saying my house was a pigsty or anything like that, but when my oldest was younger, and my youngest wasn't born yet, I definitely had more time, and the house was pretty spotless most of the time. It's slowly working it's way back to that. Plus, I've got help now! I can enlist the help of my oldest to help clean too!

A Slacker Mom......naw, I don't think so.......in the cleaning department? Probably... In the raising kids department, definitely not. The house will always be there, the kids won't always be so small and wanting to listen to mom.....

I really should get that book and read it though.................