A working mom’s crazy adventures

So I never realized many of the things I said on a rather regular basis, until I had Bella.  Then I realized I had; road rage, a vocabulary that could make a sailor proud and lots of other rather quirky phrases.   However, my conversation with her the other night was too much.

For the last week, she has been rather defiant about going to bed when her father or I would tell her it is time to go.  And at  the ripe age of four she is rather clever in her smoke screens to avoid going to sleep, but the other night was just too much.

She tried every trick in the book and when she realized that we were not falling for any of them, she was upset and proceeded to scream and cry.  So I pulled out the old “Super Nanny” methods and came down on her level to explain that her behavior was not acceptable and that she would be going to bed, yada yada yada.  To which she replied “I don’t want to hear it”, “I’m sorry” I said, “but sometimes we don’t always get what we want”.  “Yes I do, I do get what I want and if you aren’t going to tell me that I can stay up and have something to eat, then I don’t want to hear it”.

How do you not fall on the floor and laugh?????  Talk about a taste of my own medicine vocabulary.

Needless to say she went to bed shortly there after and didn’t get anything to eat.

God I love that child, even if she does make me want to laugh and pull my hair out at the same time.

Me: Bella this is the preschool that is by mommy’s work, lets check this one out.

Bella (with a light bulb on over her head): Yeah, then I can talk to all your friends.

Me: uh no

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Bella while drinking bioK these are the good bugs mom! (Yep I feed my kids live bugs LOL)

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Me: Do you want to tell me a story and I will put it on my webpage?

Bella:Umm OK, I have a good one! It is about a little girl eating fruit. Let me tell you.

A little girl was eating fruit and then a horse ate her fruit. She was so mad, but the horse did not stop eating it and that was why she was mad. She just sat there and watched the horse she didn’t even do anything. And she had a choice, so she went out of the garden and got more fruit and then she nowed how to be a good friend. Nobody actual thinks of her. The end.

Me: What does “nobody actual thinks of her” mean?

Bella: It means that no one thinks of her, she has to think for herself.

Me: Oh ok. What is the name of your story?

Bella: A girl named Rainbow.

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I swear my daughter is the funniest ever. We were driving the other day and while stopped at the light she screams ” MOM I see Duncan Donuts”. “Where” I reply (knowing that there isn’t one anyone near here as we are not in MA where they are on every corner). “In the reflection of the gas station look over there”. At this point, I completely forgot that we were looking for Duncan Donuts because I was schocked that she knew the word reflection. Her vocabulary shocks me everyday. By the way the reflection was Jack in the Box LOL LOL.

So a week or so ago, I found out about a place called Jacqueline’s High Tea
intrigued by it’s potential for a GREAT time with my daughter we embarked on our great journey despite the torrential rains we had to endure. Both Bella and her friend JT got all dolled up in their princess dresses and upon our arrival the two girls were crowned with tiara’s and pearl necklaces.

The tables were set with beautiful cloth napkins that had rose napkin holders, which the girls decided to wear as bracelets.(Talk about proper table manners! I’m going to be “proper” mother of the year for sure! )

So we ordered our mini tea sandwiches and our pots of tea urr well hot chocolate for the girls and alas a tea party was had.  The girls loved it, every blue haired lady that passed by our table couldn’t help but GUSH over the girls and how cute they were, all done up and drinking out of big ole tea cups.  (And believe me, this place was FULL of blue haired ladies so they were inundated with attention. And they loved every second of it).

I would recommend this place to anyone who has a little girl that loves to dress up.  My only word of caution would be that if you order the more expensive of the two meals and you have little girls with you make sure that you tell your waitress that you expect to receive the two tierd plate.  I was very dissapointed to pay for the more expensive meal (15.95 each) for a two-tierd plate, only to receive a single plate.  However, I must note that the girls didn’t even notice, despite the fact that I had talked up the plate, so I didn’t make a big deal of it.

Huston I think I am in trouble, my dauther poses on her own.