The Meanest Mother in the World--A L-B TR, 5/05 *DONE. p.65, with one last pic*
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I am loving this report. Keep up the mean-ness. By the time your kids are older, all your ground work will be laid and they will know that you mean business.
Just tonight my 11yo DS asked me if I enjoyed being mean. I only enjoy it because I know it is the reason my son is turning out so great.
My favorite example: This Christmas, my brother gave my son a TV/DVD player for Christmas. He refused to give me the receipt. He did not believe that I would not let my son use it. It is in our basement in the box. I told my son I was saving it for his college dormroom. AND HE IS FINE WITH THAT. He even acknowledges that it would be a big distraction. My brother is dumbfounded that I stuck to my guns.
Someday they will figure out that mean=love.
Now to deal with you, fellow mean mommy - should I take away that dirty laundry and messy kitchen so you can finish your homework. Haven't we been waiting for the next installment long enough! Do I need to set parameters for you?! (I am an equal oppurtunity meanie!!)
Just tonight my 11yo DS asked me if I enjoyed being mean. I only enjoy it because I know it is the reason my son is turning out so great.
My favorite example: This Christmas, my brother gave my son a TV/DVD player for Christmas. He refused to give me the receipt. He did not believe that I would not let my son use it. It is in our basement in the box. I told my son I was saving it for his college dormroom. AND HE IS FINE WITH THAT. He even acknowledges that it would be a big distraction. My brother is dumbfounded that I stuck to my guns.
Someday they will figure out that mean=love.
Now to deal with you, fellow mean mommy - should I take away that dirty laundry and messy kitchen so you can finish your homework. Haven't we been waiting for the next installment long enough! Do I need to set parameters for you?! (I am an equal oppurtunity meanie!!)
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Aaaawww I need more, I have to hear about the kids little faces 
BTW, think I'm in love with Sydney after the car singing, I have a 2 year old as well and they truly are the best vault in the world,
keep it coming and soon please,
Claire xx
BTW, think I'm in love with Sydney after the car singing, I have a 2 year old as well and they truly are the best vault in the world,keep it coming and soon please,
Claire xx
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Hi everybody ...
I had to actually work yesterday, and right now I've got to get the boy off to school on time. But when I get back I'm going to write part 5.
AshClan: Hi neighbor! Thanks for stopping in!
To all the Mean Mommies -- yeah. Mean = love. Ya got me.
Anybody want a closetfull of toys? Because mine is bursting with the stuff that DIDN't get picked up when asked. And I'm thinking they don't need all this stuff. 
Cheers!
I had to actually work yesterday, and right now I've got to get the boy off to school on time. But when I get back I'm going to write part 5.
AshClan: Hi neighbor! Thanks for stopping in!
To all the Mean Mommies -- yeah. Mean = love. Ya got me.
Anybody want a closetfull of toys? Because mine is bursting with the stuff that DIDN't get picked up when asked. And I'm thinking they don't need all this stuff. Cheers!
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Loving it! I can't wait for the next chapter!! 
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Part 5
Here's the thing. Before we get on with part 5, I have been requested, by DH, to explain to you that he's not as boring as he seems in the cast description back in Part 2. What he is, is a guy who works really really hard. For years he worked in high-tech, and then the stress of evading each new RIF that came along really got to us. So we decided he should quit. AFTER we bought DVC.
He started up his own real estate brokerage with a guy who he worked with at the high-tech place. For any of you who own your own business, you know. It's liberating in a very real way to be the captain of your own ship. But it's also a big bundle of stress, because, well, you're the captain.
So our vacations are precious. And he enjoys them, once we're there. He leaves all the crazy planning, replanning, DISing and whatnot to me. I just tell him what days to take off and where to show up. So the fact that he merely tolerates all the prep work is okay by me.
All right, so he's a hard worker. Just to show how that he plays hard, too, here's a pic.
That's him under the pile of kids and snow. That was one of our nighttime snow parties. Because it's really cool to play in the snow at night.
OK. We're at the airport. At last. You know how, as adults, when we get up way more early than we're accustomed to, we sort of slump around looking for coffee because we KNOW it's waytooearly?
Kids can't tell time.
Our little bunnies were hip hopping all around, in absolute thrill at the prospect of getting on an airplane. But in a good way.
We kept a handle on things by popping the girls into cool new double umbrella stroller I got on eBay. I've never had a double stroller. Always just used a sling for whoever was littlest, and the stroller for whoever's feet were tiredest. It worked out.
DH liked it because the handles could adjust up and down, so he needn't bend at the waist like a field hockey player in order to push the thing. He hated it because even though it was designed to fit through doorways (unlike some side-side doubles, I'm told) it only fit IF the wheels were pointing straight ahead. Which they usually weren't, because they swivel all around. So he'd have to baaaaaaaack it up and then head straight for the door in question in order to make it through.
Which didn't really matter, because of course we had to unload every little thing in order to go through security.
Just so you know, apparently the TSA also thinks I'm the meanest mommy in the otherwise friendly skies. I always get singled out for the "extra special search." That trip to Seattle, they searched our entire stroller, then took me over for a patdown. DH took the baby, but she began screaming so they let him pass her back to me. And they searched me WHILE I sat on a chair in front of hundreds of people waiting and attempted to nurse my infant. Let me tell you, SydneyRalla, if exposing my, um, self to all of Sea-Tac airport to calm you down isn't love, I don't know what is.
This time, no exposure necessary. Just the patdown, then a scramble to collect the 3 kids and all the carryon bags, the shoes, the camera and the loose change and get everyone put back together.
While DH stands on the Other Side, waiting for us. Love ya, mean it.
(Learned that from the DIS too ... in case the three people who haven't read Delswife's trip reports yet are reading this, go find them. You'll love them. She's great.)
This is our very first time flying Southwest. All we know is that it's a so-called cattle call boarding process, but that we don't have to participate in it because of our SydneyRalla, our own little "Go Directly to the Front of the Line" card. At least that's what we thought.
What we didn't realize is that people actually line up, even the preboarders, to be at the FRONT of the front of the line. That's ok, we catch on pretty quick and still end up third, I think.
Once we're down into the belly of the beast, we've got a game plan. Figuring out seats for a family of 5 on an aircraft with rows of 3 seats was some sort of logic torture test. DH requires an aisle seat. It's a thing. SydneyRalla would need to be next to me. Both PiperPower and ConorRoo want window seats. Somebody has to give. Unless we want a stranger sitting between DH and one of the kids. So we'd created the plan: DH on an aisle, with Piper and Conor taking turns being by the window. Me in a row behind them, also on the aisle, with Syd next to me. So I can get up easily in case she needs changing. Some poor sap is going to be stuck sitting with us, by the window, with no way out. Sorry dude.
Once we were settled and waiting for the rest of our travelin' buddies to board, I enjoyed watching the looks on people's faces as they scanned for an available seat. They all expressed a momentary ray of hope as they spied what they thought would be a window and a middle seat, so near the front of the aircraft. As they got closer, and could see the reality of the situation, the expression instantly went to "Drat. Baby. Walk on ... walk on."
The young man who ended up with us was a peach. Really, I mean that. He was a soldier recently back from Kuwait, and was heading to Disney with his girlfriend. Who was sitting in the back of the plane somewhere.
Remember that I had sneak-prepped everybody for what it was like taking off in an airplane. That didn't really stop them from asking about a bazillion questions, many of them the same, many of them "When are we going to move?" Soon, chickadees.
Coming up next: Part 6: LaLa's Little Sista Gets Her Scream-Laugh On!
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Here's the thing. Before we get on with part 5, I have been requested, by DH, to explain to you that he's not as boring as he seems in the cast description back in Part 2. What he is, is a guy who works really really hard. For years he worked in high-tech, and then the stress of evading each new RIF that came along really got to us. So we decided he should quit. AFTER we bought DVC.
He started up his own real estate brokerage with a guy who he worked with at the high-tech place. For any of you who own your own business, you know. It's liberating in a very real way to be the captain of your own ship. But it's also a big bundle of stress, because, well, you're the captain.So our vacations are precious. And he enjoys them, once we're there. He leaves all the crazy planning, replanning, DISing and whatnot to me. I just tell him what days to take off and where to show up. So the fact that he merely tolerates all the prep work is okay by me.
All right, so he's a hard worker. Just to show how that he plays hard, too, here's a pic.
That's him under the pile of kids and snow. That was one of our nighttime snow parties. Because it's really cool to play in the snow at night.
OK. We're at the airport. At last. You know how, as adults, when we get up way more early than we're accustomed to, we sort of slump around looking for coffee because we KNOW it's waytooearly?
Kids can't tell time.
Our little bunnies were hip hopping all around, in absolute thrill at the prospect of getting on an airplane. But in a good way.
We kept a handle on things by popping the girls into cool new double umbrella stroller I got on eBay. I've never had a double stroller. Always just used a sling for whoever was littlest, and the stroller for whoever's feet were tiredest. It worked out.
DH liked it because the handles could adjust up and down, so he needn't bend at the waist like a field hockey player in order to push the thing. He hated it because even though it was designed to fit through doorways (unlike some side-side doubles, I'm told) it only fit IF the wheels were pointing straight ahead. Which they usually weren't, because they swivel all around. So he'd have to baaaaaaaack it up and then head straight for the door in question in order to make it through.
Which didn't really matter, because of course we had to unload every little thing in order to go through security.
Just so you know, apparently the TSA also thinks I'm the meanest mommy in the otherwise friendly skies. I always get singled out for the "extra special search." That trip to Seattle, they searched our entire stroller, then took me over for a patdown. DH took the baby, but she began screaming so they let him pass her back to me. And they searched me WHILE I sat on a chair in front of hundreds of people waiting and attempted to nurse my infant. Let me tell you, SydneyRalla, if exposing my, um, self to all of Sea-Tac airport to calm you down isn't love, I don't know what is.
This time, no exposure necessary. Just the patdown, then a scramble to collect the 3 kids and all the carryon bags, the shoes, the camera and the loose change and get everyone put back together.
While DH stands on the Other Side, waiting for us. Love ya, mean it.
(Learned that from the DIS too ... in case the three people who haven't read Delswife's trip reports yet are reading this, go find them. You'll love them. She's great.)
This is our very first time flying Southwest. All we know is that it's a so-called cattle call boarding process, but that we don't have to participate in it because of our SydneyRalla, our own little "Go Directly to the Front of the Line" card. At least that's what we thought.
What we didn't realize is that people actually line up, even the preboarders, to be at the FRONT of the front of the line. That's ok, we catch on pretty quick and still end up third, I think.
Once we're down into the belly of the beast, we've got a game plan. Figuring out seats for a family of 5 on an aircraft with rows of 3 seats was some sort of logic torture test. DH requires an aisle seat. It's a thing. SydneyRalla would need to be next to me. Both PiperPower and ConorRoo want window seats. Somebody has to give. Unless we want a stranger sitting between DH and one of the kids. So we'd created the plan: DH on an aisle, with Piper and Conor taking turns being by the window. Me in a row behind them, also on the aisle, with Syd next to me. So I can get up easily in case she needs changing. Some poor sap is going to be stuck sitting with us, by the window, with no way out. Sorry dude.
Once we were settled and waiting for the rest of our travelin' buddies to board, I enjoyed watching the looks on people's faces as they scanned for an available seat. They all expressed a momentary ray of hope as they spied what they thought would be a window and a middle seat, so near the front of the aircraft. As they got closer, and could see the reality of the situation, the expression instantly went to "Drat. Baby. Walk on ... walk on."
The young man who ended up with us was a peach. Really, I mean that. He was a soldier recently back from Kuwait, and was heading to Disney with his girlfriend. Who was sitting in the back of the plane somewhere.
Remember that I had sneak-prepped everybody for what it was like taking off in an airplane. That didn't really stop them from asking about a bazillion questions, many of them the same, many of them "When are we going to move?" Soon, chickadees.
Coming up next: Part 6: LaLa's Little Sista Gets Her Scream-Laugh On!
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Kim,
We are kindred spirits!! Not only did DH start his own business several years ago, I also have felt like I am making him out to look like the "stick-in-the-mud" in my TR!!
My plan in the next installment was to be sure and give him props for the INCREDIBLE husband and father that he is - he also allows me to DIS and plan and create special memories for our family. Aren't we blessed?
I am loving your TR - thanks for all the fun!
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nicolemarie said:Kim,
We are kindred spirits!! Not only did DH start his own business several years ago, I also have felt like I am making him out to look like the "stick-in-the-mud" in my TR!!
My plan in the next installment was to be sure and give him props for the INCREDIBLE husband and father that he is - he also allows me to DIS and plan and create special memories for our family. Aren't we blessed?
I am loving your TR - thanks for all the fun!
Please tell me the "own business" thing gets easier after the first couple of years. We're in year two, and wow, it's crazy. Hopefully things will get easier in the next couple, right??
I have to go back over and read more of your report. I've gotten a bit behind!
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Kim, You're writing is great! Barring all for your babe, in front of all- I said it before and I'll say it again. You can't fool me- You are not the meanest mom in the world! You sound like a great mom. But you know that, otherwise you would never have titled your report as you did! Keep going, I am loving it.
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Kim,
I'm really enjoying your TR! You are too funny
I loved the LY/MI reference.
Very clever getting around the word filter!
I'll be patiently DISing
till your next installment.
BTW, DH and I are doing the BWV in Oct. too!
Keep going ! You're doing GREAT !
Here's to ALL the Mean Mommies of the World !
I'm really enjoying your TR! You are too funny
I loved the LY/MI reference.
Very clever getting around the word filter!
I'll be patiently DISing
till your next installment.BTW, DH and I are doing the BWV in Oct. too!
Keep going ! You're doing GREAT !
Here's to ALL the Mean Mommies of the World !
kpk89
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paslea_pooh said:Kim,
I'm really enjoying your TR! You are too funny
I loved the LY/MI reference.
Very clever getting around the word filter!
I'll be patiently DISing
BTW, DH and I are doing the BWV in Oct. too!
Keep going ! You're doing GREAT !
Here's to ALL the Mean Mommies of the World !
Thank you so much! We'll be at BWV 9/30 - 10/3. Just a quick trip, but that's about all we'll be able to get somebody to watch the kids for.
I lovelovelove Disney with the kids, but I think we'll also enjoy ourselves with a more adult focus. When are you going?
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kpk89 said:Thank you so much! We'll be at BWV 9/30 - 10/3. Just a quick trip, but that's about all we'll be able to get somebody to watch the kids for.
When are you going?
Loving this report! Just awesome
We will be at BWV too, from 09/28-10/02. There is a group of about 50 of us from the Dis (Women only, no men or children
) Don't worry though, only 8 of us are stayin at BWV so we won't be too roudy 
Can't wait to read more!
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