The Truth about Motherhood

A few days ago Oprah did a show about the truth about motherhood. It was about how motherhood is this completely amazing and bewildering experience - nobody really tells you what its really like, and the only way you find out is when the kiddo is in your arms! A really funny part of the show were the mom confessions - things that they do to just get by during the day. And I realized that I have quite a list of my own. Many of these things are stuff that I swore up and down that I would never do as a mother.. but oh well, things change!

- I turn on the tv in the mornings, so I could get a bit more of shuteye.
- I give her juice first thing in the morning (mainly for constipation, but I should really push plain water more)
- Me, a self-professed gourmand, has a daughter who only loves jarred baby food. Ugh
- Sometimes when I'm feeding Izzie she gets a runny nose, and when I try to wipe it down she freaks. So I just let her nose run, and it gets in her food and I just let her eat it.
- I skip her baths many times when I'm too tired to do it.
- Same with brushing her teeth.
- i smell her clothes and as long as it doesn't have some kind of excrement on it, I just let her wear it again.
- I've given my kid ice cream and Doritos.

I'm sure there are many more to list.. but I'm tired right now and can't think of anymore. Anyway, oftentimes, I do NOT have it together as a mom - but I try hard, and hopefully that will be good enough. =]