Is this what it feels like to let yourself go?

[Anonymous]

And *I* (00:06 poster) never said anything about youth, clothes, or polish! Just that motherhood is thankless anyway when kids reach a certain age.

[Anonymous]

Oooh! and "her" referred to all of us, not just OP. (Every poster... will find HER older children embarassed anyway...) You guys really couldn't see that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was talking about the tween years--- exactly. Very surprising how mothers with young children have trouble mentally fast forwarding that decade... how could you think I meant anything else? Really!

How could we? Oh my! Because you are rude and haven't added anything other than showing how superficial you are to the thread. Why pick on a person with small kids who notices a change in her priorities? I guarantee the OP is not as bad off as you are making her seem and I also guarantee once she adjusts to mommy-hood and finds her routine she will be fine. Build up your fellow woman, don't knock her down, tell her she is lazy and has the time just doesn't use it and then tell us ALL how our kids will be embarrassed by us. I mean really? Motherhood is tough enough without giving support when needed, not making it worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was talking about the tween years--- exactly. Very surprising how mothers with young children have trouble mentally fast forwarding that decade... how could you think I meant anything else? Really!

How could we? Oh my! Because you are rude and haven't added anything other than showing how superficial you are to the thread. Why pick on a person with small kids who notices a change in her priorities? I guarantee the OP is not as bad off as you are making her seem and I also guarantee once she adjusts to mommy-hood and finds her routine she will be fine. Build up your fellow woman, don't knock her down, tell her she is lazy and has the time just doesn't use it and then tell us ALL how our kids will be embarrassed by us. I mean really? Motherhood is tough enough without giving support when needed, not making it worse.

I guess I misread the offensive quote but I though the PP was saying, not very seriously, that it doesn't really matter anyway because soon or later the kids will be tweens and be embarrassed by us no matter how much attention we pay to our appearance. I thought she was being supportive of the OP but I guess I missed something....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was talking about the tween years--- exactly. Very surprising how mothers with young children have trouble mentally fast forwarding that decade... how could you think I meant anything else? Really!

How could we? Oh my! Because you are rude and haven't added anything other than showing how superficial you are to the thread. Why pick on a person with small kids who notices a change in her priorities? I guarantee the OP is not as bad off as you are making her seem and I also guarantee once she adjusts to mommy-hood and finds her routine she will be fine. Build up your fellow woman, don't knock her down, tell her she is lazy and has the time just doesn't use it and then tell us ALL how our kids will be embarrassed by us. I mean really? Motherhood is tough enough without giving support when needed, not making it worse.

I guess I misread the offensive quote but I though the PP was saying, not very seriously, that it doesn't really matter anyway because soon or later the kids will be tweens and be embarrassed by us no matter how much attention we pay to our appearance. I thought she was being supportive of the OP but I guess I missed something....

Thanks, PP... I didn't think I was being so opaque. For the record, my only posts on this thread suggested OP ask her husband for help with some "me" time, and then responded to the PP who suggested OP's kids would be embarrassed by saying that the time will come when all our children will be embarrassed because it's just the natural course of things. Not sure why offended PPs are attributing statements about laziness and priorities to me or even why she (or others) might make that connection to my post. Just saying that people have trouble projecting that far into the future, since it's hard to imagine the cute toddler one day saying, "No thanks, Mom. You don't really need to chaperone my field trip."

[Anonymous]

In addition to being uncleansed housemaids, you are complete morons who have no critical reading skills. Did your bains decline with you physical appearance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In addition to being uncleansed housemaids, you are complete morons who have no critical reading skills. Did your bains decline with you physical appearance?

Huh? I mean, Doh! I guess....uh....wait....LOL! Yeah, that's it.