My mother-in-law told me a funny quote she heard once and loved:
"I was the perfect mom until I had kids."
I love it! I too was the perfect mom before reality hit me when I became a mom. I always told myself I would never do certain things and would always do other things.
One of these things I did just the other day. I swore I was never going to be One of those moms and open something at the store I was about to purchase for my kid. NEVER! How ridiculous they can't wait 15 min until they are through the check out. Then... on multiple occasions I have found myself not having a choice about my timing at the grocery store and it falling near nap time or a meal. 15 min until checking out? That's an eternity! If I open these crackers, we will avert a tantrum everyone in the store would hear. Doesn't change the price, so whatev'. The check-out people always assure me, when I'm embarrassed, that it happens all the time. I laugh that I used to think people were absurd. No longer do I judge someone's actions with their kids (excluding straight-up wrong things)when I don't know the whole story. And, I just laugh when I see people thinking I'm the crazy one because they don't know what's really going on!
What things have you found yourself doing with your kids that you swore you'd never do?
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Not joking--some of my clearest and fondest memories when I was little was my mom letting me and my little sisters open up a string cheese and eating it while sitting in the cart with the groceries, and then paying for the wrapper. I thought it was so fun :)
Spit baths I swore I would never lick my hand and wipe something off hadleys face until you pull up to a wedding party or out to dinner and you look at this face with nothing wet around you and you just have to laugh as you do the clean up job
Wiping noses with anything other than a kleenex. :) And about a billion other things I do every single day.
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