Consider yourself warned!
A guide for those who think they want children.
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Food. We all like to eat. We all like to have food in the fridge. Just went grocery shopping? Wait a minute! Where’s those cookies I’ve been craving? Where’s the ice cream I just bought? Think food stays in the house? Not if you have kids! If you have kids, you will find that food doesn’t stay in the house very long. I started noticing it when my son became a preteen. Suddenly, I never had enough food in the apartment! I would cook, and there wouldn’t be any leftovers for the next day! How could that be? I just didn’t understand, I cooked enough for a small army, and my daughter and I barely ate. I soon learned that the growth that occurs between the preteen and teenage years means that one should just go ahead and invest in BJ’s because you will be spending a lot of time and money there.
Let me share a story with you. One beautiful, sunny day, one of my friends invited us over to her neighborhood block party. My son was about ten years old at the time. We go and my friend’s husband is cooking on his grill. I can honestly say that other than to go to use the bathroom, I don’t think my son ever left his side! I was so embarrassed. My son was stationed at the grill as if he hadn’t eaten in years and the food would disappear once he left his side. If it came off the grill, he ate it, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, anything. Luckily for me, my friend’s husband enjoyed every last minute of it. I, on the other hand, was mortified! Anyway, it was time to leave and my friend told me to take some food home. I declined since we were leaving the next morning to go to the Poconos. But she insisted. Thank God she did!! Before we got halfway home, my son asked me, “Mommy, what’s for dinner?” I replied, “Honey, you already had dinner.” To which he responded, “No Mommy. That was lunch!” I couldn’t believe it! Do you know that this child went home and ate again? I was amazed. How could someone so little, eat so much? Fast forward to the teenage years. We went through a period of time where I would come home from work and my son would greet me at the door. He would say hi, give me a hug and a kiss, and then ask “Hey Mom, what’s for dinner?” I mean, come on, I haven’t even taken my coat off yet and you want me to think about dinner? The interesting thing is that this child had been home for at least two hours already, and HE HAD ALREADY EATEN. I eventually told him to stop meeting me at the door and asking what was for dinner. After all, I am not a maid or short order cook. If you want something for yourself, you actually have to resort to hiding food and hoping that no one finds your secret hiding place. I once hid a pint of Hagen Daaz Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Ice Cream in the freezer. I was so looking forward to eating that ice cream. Oh, I couldn’t wait for my kids to go to their father’s for the night so I could have that ice cream all to myself. I figured, hey, I hid the ice cream deeeeeep in the freezer. They won’t find it. Besides, they didn’t even know that I bought it, so there was no reason for them to even look for it. Well, let me tell you what happened. I opened that pint of ice cream … and it was half eaten!!! So, if you think that you will have the luxury of eating the food that you actually bought for yourself, if you have kids, it’s not happening! Consider yourself warned! Where do you hide your goodies?
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SassyGirlTye lives with her two wonderful teenagers in Brooklyn, New York. No matter what she says in her posts, she truly loves her children with all her heart.
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