I know my personal standards are WAY lower than they used to be because today I went to the grocery store without taking a shower for the second day in a row. I didn't even bother to put baby powder in my hair to absorb the grease, and instead of brushing my teeth, I ate a few breath mints. I looked down at my pants in the car and realized I had ketchup and mustard on one knee, which was left over from Superbowl Sunday. Huh, I thought to myself. I should really try to do a better job keeping up with the laundry.
I talked to two other moms when I went to pick Hudson up from school and caught a whiff of one mom's perfume. She smelled great--all clean and ladylike! I figure she's really on top of her game and has time to shower and apply perfume, or she's stinking brilliant and used the perfume to disguise her mom stench. Just to make myself feel better, I'm going to assume the latter and try out her trick.
Anyhoo...I did finally grab a record-breakingly fast shower AND brush my teeth, so maybe Jason will keep the faith that I still value my own cleanliness. I may even give a homecooked meal a shot in the hopes it will smell better than I did the majority of the day.
The title of this post made me laugh out loud, literally!! That's great!
ReplyDeleteOMG Molly ... you are hysterical!!! The funny thing is, you could have written that about me! The difference is that you are actually willing to write about the things that I only think about. You seriously make me feel so much better as a Mom these days. I so often feel like I'm the only one falling short and feeling so inept. I just love you to pieces!!!
ReplyDeleteMolly, you just made me feel so much better about myself!! So, I'm not the only smelly mom out there who is lucky to take a shower at some point during the day. As for laundry, I currently have two pair of pants that I can fit into and they don't get washed near as much as they should. The sacrifices we make as mothers!
ReplyDeleteI haven't washed my hair in FOUR days... glad i'm in good company here! :)
ReplyDeleteummm- dont forget that I took a shower only AFTER you came over to the house... and that was the first shower in 2 days...even Barkley smelled better than me... - you, sweet smelling friend are not alone, you are just extra lucky b/c you can manage to pull off mom stench and STILL look beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteHang on Mommies. The babes will grow up and you will have all the time in the world. But I promise you'll miss your babies. Enjoy every stinking, dirty, poopie, boogery minute of it.
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