My good friend is getting married tomorrow. Of course, I still hadn't bought a wedding present, so I dragged the girls along with me tonight to Dillard's. (Nyall is out of town.) Have you seen their home section during Christmastime? There are breakables everywhere...and I mean EVERYWHERE! I was almost panicked, but thought, I HAVE to get a gift tonight! I explained to the girls they could look but NOT touch. That lasted for about 10 seconds. Luckily, nothing was broken, but I lost my temper and felt like a loser parent by the end of it all. Cambria started CHASING Kate around. Kate was laughing hysterically. It would have been so cute anywhere else! I finally got them to stop after yelling and notifying Cambria we would not be frosting cupcakes tonight like I promised. Cambria was devastated. Afterwards, I felt kind of guilty and thought, they're just kids and I shouldn't have taken them to such a store in the first place. Anyway, I happened upon this article tonight and got a kick out of reading it. It just seemed to fit the frustration with my kids:
http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=1408
P.S. If you want another laugh, when you scroll down the page, there's a link for an article called "The Breastfeeding Father" with a picture of a baby being breastfed. My first thought was, "Eww. I hope that's not a man breastfeeding his child." So of course I clicked on it. It's about what men can do to help their breastfeeding wives.
