The Perfect Mom...

Here's my random thought for the day...

The moms who try to be Mrs. Perfect. Not the wanna be June Cleavers, Donna Reeds, or even the moms who actually seem flawless to the naked eye. You know who I'm talking about...the PTA, always doing the magazine crafts, know-it-all, I have an answer to everything, baking/cooking from scratch, over the top show off, seem to have endless hours while you only have 2, moms. Do I have to say it? They drive me crazy.

I have one too close for comfort and I can't stand her. Not because she's a "hands-on" mom but because she's obnoxious, irritating, nosy, overly opinionated while un-informed, pain. She's always got something (rude) to say because she knows "everything", only asks questions to respond to your response about herself, loves to gloat about what her latest complex project is, and thinks that her kids are better than yours by making un-invited comments. (BTW-her kids are incredibly rude. So much so that their Grandmother can't stand them.) It's quite humorous though, a while back I was running through my latest Family Fun mag (from my son's fundraiser) and saw a craft. It was how to recycle your plastic bags by covering them in colored duct tape to make them "prettier". EWWWW. Talk about ugly. Plus, if you want to recycle them, you could just drop them off at the front of a store that takes them. Anyway, I thought to myself, "Who the hell is gonna do that?". This morning, I opened my email to find it sitting in my inbox from guess who...Yep. Her. Apparently, she's going to do it this weekend after her ten billion other things that she does to rub in your face. Ugh.

Don't get me wrong, I am proud and give much love to the mommies who multi-task, are involved with their children, handle the house, and try to make some money at the same time. We are all work horses and deserve our share of "props", applause, and praise...but some of us just go way to far. If your actions are for a purpose other than what it's true value is, you won't be rewarded or recognized in the light of which you desire. And you know what they say...it's not the amount of work but the quality of it that makes it worth while.

P.S. After you've cut (and thrown out) the tops and handles of your 9-10 plastic bags to be recycled, ironed them together between two sheets of parchment paper and fused together the two sheets to (re)make your bag, and stuck your chosen colors of duct tape all over them (and made handles out of the same tape, since you cut off the original ones), this is what your bag should look like. LOL!