[If you're grossed out by the gory details, skip this paragraph.] So, I needed to tweeze my eyebrows, clip my nails, wash off all the poop, baby wipes, dish soap, bleach, dog hairs, and other marks of motherhood, shave my legs, blow dry my hair, put on makeup and put on something sparkly to wear without someone small picking all the sparkles off.
Suffice it to say, we are nearing the final hour, and I don't know how young mothers do it! I see pictures of friends who have managed it and seem to manage it on a regular basis. I officially started about an hour ago, and have managed about half of the things on my transformation list, but I'm almost out of time. The kids and husband have been working on a model rocket, but I know they are going to be finished any minute, and my time will be up. Granted, I'm sitting here writing this blog post instead of drying my hair. But I had to write. I need help. I want to open this up for discussion.
How do you put yourselves together every day! I've put this off all week (the things that could have been done in advance, obviously) because of some other more pressing need. Do you just not clean house? Do you opt to skip meals? Put kids to bed early? Send them to the babysitters? Daycare? Please share your secrets with me.
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If there is a secret to it, I'd sure like to know as well!! Some days I feel like all I manage to do is feed everybody and then suddenly the day is over and I didn't do any of the things that I'd planned. Time management with young kids is a joke, and I never really had any time management issues before kids.
At any rate - hang in there! I think you get bonus points for even attempting to achieve such a wonderful goal.
Susan
Good friends to watch the kids while you scrape off the barnicles.
Great babysitters who will come on a moments notice on the odd day that you have a good hair day.
Put them to bed early!!
insist on nap time, so you can do your nails! lol
keep trying...
Skipping meals, keeps me cute and skinny. With out wasting all that time nourishing my body I can put on make-up, catch up on my soaps and check out my friends blogs. (I'm kidding, if I skip a meal I am ready to eat my children--makes for a tense first Sunday of every month.) I find a cute shirt does a lot to distract from the lack of make up or blow dried hair, but that is every day. For special occasions I try to do a little every day leading up to the occasion--shave on wednesday, pluck on thursday and shampoo on friday--then it is just make-up and hair for the hot date on Saturday. (If that guy doesn't like two or three days of stubble on my legs he can pay for a more permanent solution.)
Keep pushing forward. It is always nice to see the more glamorous-you hiding behind the mom-you.
um i just go on a TV show and have someone else do it for me!!! ha once in a lifetime and that already happened. i just have to waked up extra early before the kids are up!
Reading this, I tried to remember way back when you and Jeff were this age.....what I did was admit in frustration that I just couldn't handle it anymore, so I put you in a nursery one day a week, and just played all day once every week. It was glorious. Then, a few years later, I wanted adult company, so I got a job, paid someone else to care for you guys, and I became a woman again. In hindsight, I wish I had stayed home to care for you longer, but my work filled me in different ways, and I guess I made a choice that was good in a much different way. At least, having worked made it possible for me to retire without the money worries I might have had otherwise. Still.....those precious times with my kids disappeared much too fast. Love, Mom
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