(There’s supposed to be a little accent mark over that last “e” on Expose but I can’t figure out how to do that and it’s getting late. I’m confident that you can deal with it.)
The very daughter that I praised so highly in the previous post was furious with me. Since my kids live with me every day and don’t think I am in the least bit entertaining, I never worry about them reading my blog. Then she caught me.
Seems the middle child was going to do me a favor and click on some Google ads from her friend’s computer ( I don’t know where she got the idea about doing that!) and actually read the last post. She called her sister spitting mad. So the big sister calls me and tells me her sister is really upset with me for writing about her. She decided not to click on the ad after all to punish me. Boo hoo, I’m out 23 cents. She also threatened to write a response on how I exaggerate (silly girl calls it “lying”) and how I make my kids appear in a bad light. Ho hum.
I wish she’d have read the comments after the post because the readers all think she is a frickin’ genius and want their children to have the same money smarts. What the kids just don’t realize is how one can use a blog to escape, for a vacation from the mundane, a place to blow off parental steam, laugh at oneself. So I spin a little yarn here and there. It’s not like I’m Mommy Dearest or anything.
The kids have threatened to “expose” me by writing their own post about me, which I would gladly include here because it would probably be really funny. In fact, I encouraged them to do it. (Thereby insuring that they won’t but they haven’t figured that out yet. Maybe they’re not so smart after all…)
It’s a good thing I don’t hold grudges. Since then, my daughter has forgiven me. I could tell by her tone when she called in the middle of a meltdown because her car wouldn’t start on her way home from work last night. That’s what’s nice about teens and young adult children. No matter how much they sputter and snipe, they’ll need you for something in no time. They hate that. I like that.
If she reads this one, she might get mad enough to really write that expose about me. I have always believed in encouraging my children.
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“I’ve learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.” ~ Isabelle Adjani
12 responses so far ↓
1 Tracy // Feb 1, 2008 at 1:39 am
ROTFLMBO!!! I tried a bit of that reverse psychology with my son today…it seriously bit me in the butt….so, now dragging my bitten butt I’m gonna go click on some google ads for ya too.
2 Beth_C // Feb 1, 2008 at 7:26 am
Your daughter was mad at your last post? Why! It made her sound brilliant! I wish I had that kind of money sense at her age…heck…I wish I had it now! And as for matching bras and panties, wish I had those too…because I’m pretty sure beige and white don’t really count!
3 suburbancorrespondent // Feb 1, 2008 at 9:23 am
I was impressed with her too, and it gave me hope for my own incipient spendthrift. I thought the blog was nothing but complimentary, but maybe her point was that she felt her privacy was invaded. So, then you have a choice: her privacy or your sanity…hmmm….you know which side I land on, if you’ve ever read my blog.
4 Mary // Feb 1, 2008 at 9:30 am
She was upset because I misrepresented her bras. She really only has 29 and thought I had exaggerated (lied) terribly. Yeah. That’s terrible. Signed, Joan Crawford
5 Domesticallychallenged // Feb 2, 2008 at 11:59 am
I was impressed by her too – though maybe having your smalls laundered in public so to speak was a bridge (or bra) too far!
Tell her you’d LOVE her to write a blog about you….reverse logic could stave off an expose!
(I can’t do the acute thingy either!)
DC
6 the mama bird diaries // Feb 3, 2008 at 1:38 am
Wait… I just realized that someday my kids will be able to READ my blog. Ok I think they’re going to be pissed.
Your daughter sounds fabulous. Can’t figure out why she’s mad.
I need someone to teach me that accent mark thing to. Can never find it.
7 A. Decker // Feb 3, 2008 at 4:00 am
It’s late, and I can’t even try to be eloquent; just, you got MAD parenting skills.
Ha! Ha! I think so!
8 Madmad // Feb 3, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I live in fear of my kids discovering my blog… because I probably AM the Mommy Dearest of the blogging world. But I would LOVE to see a post from them; now that WOULD be funny!
9 angelawd // Feb 4, 2008 at 11:40 am
I love how they need us. And how much their attitude changes when they need us.
I think you were very complimentary in your last post!
10 The Mom Bomb // Feb 4, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Aww . . . that’s so cute that she was going to reward you by clicking on that Google Ad! Now I like her even more.
11 patois // Feb 4, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I’m going to click on the ad right now! Just to reward you.
12 Rebecca // Feb 4, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Well it could have been worse, you could have shared her monthly cycle with all of internet to see. I’m glad my mom didn’t have a blog years ago or she may have done just that.