Confessions from a working mom.

I recently read an article about the "Top Ten Secret Confessions of a Mom" and it got me thinking about my own "confessions".  As I read through the article I TOTALLY agreed with some of the things they talked about in the article and others I kind of gasped at!  So I thought I would make my own top ten list and share it with all of you cause... there ain't no shame in my game!

1. Mom wants to be left alone.  This was from the article I read and I thought it needed to be number 1 on my list!  I am always saying "Can't I even get a moment to myself to pee without you all banging on the door?"  I love spending time with the kids but I NEED that time away from them or I think I would lose my mind.
2. Let your kids eat junk. Yep, I feed my kids poptarts, lunchables, corn dogs, candy and TV dinners.  It's not that I don't like to cook, I LOVE to cook and do so every chance I get.  But most week days I just don't have the time and I would rather spend an hour playing with the kids, reading with them or just getting a moment to myself instead of standing over the stove.
3. Sent your kid to school sick. Now if my kid is puking, has a high fever or something major... of course I wouldn't send him to school.  But if I kept my kid home for every sniffle, cough or belly ache... I might as well home school him!  Not to mention that he/she probably got the cough from someone at school anyways.
4. Your kid watches too much TV.  OK, so exactly what is too much TV?  I've had a mom tell me she only lets her child watch 30 minutes of TV every night.  Of course she was a "one child parent" and knows nothing about the benefits of letting your kids watch TV.  Like... how it stops them from fighting with each other for a good 30 minutes while Spongebob is on.  Or how one can bribe them with a Batman DVD before bed if they behave at the store.  And heck, my 3 year old learned all her letters and letter sounds from the box set of leap frog DVDs.  Now how could TV be bad for them? :)
5. The 5 second rule applies in my house.  It's not like I would let my kid pick up a sucker from the ground with dirt, leaves and bugs hanging off of it.  But my kids are the most droppingist (yeah, I made that up!) kids you will ever meet and if the 5 second rule wasn't applied at my house my grocery bill would double.  And in my defense, I do keep the floors at my home very clean and try to enforce a "no shoes on in the house" policy for this very reason.

So, this is the beginning of my list.  Not so bad eh?  I think the conclusion might be a little more scandalous.

To be continued...