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Choose Your Words Carefully…

Madeline, our nocturnal child, is obsessed with what adults do once she retires for the evening. We were downstairs one morning when she saw a DVD cover for 24.

“What’s this?” she asked.

“An adult movie,” I stupidly said.

“You watch this when I sleep?”

“Yes.”

Later that evening as we all sat down for dinner, she announced out of the blue, “When I have kids and they’re in bed, I’m going to watch lots of adult movies, too.”

Yikes! I can just imagine the expression on the sweet, old lady’s face at the grocery store when Madeline tells her that her parents like to watch adult movies when she’s asleep.

I’ve made sure to amend the phrase to “movies for grownups.”

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· March 31, 2008 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Tales from the Trenches

Comments

  1. Kristina says

    April 1, 2008 at 1:03 am

    hilarious!

  2. Andrea says

    April 1, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Oh thats great!!!!

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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