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I Can't Believe I'm Doing This

Posted: 06/10/2012 11:39 am

Welcome to the club, new parents. Here's a short list containing just a few of the amazing and ridiculous things you'll get to do over the next five years.

  1. Butter a piece of toast while peeing.
  2. Brush someone's teeth against their will.
  3. Blow on food while it's in someone else's mouth.
  4. Help someone else blow on food while it's in someone else's mouth.
  5. Eat food that's fallen out of someone else's mouth.
  6. Eat food you found on the floor.
  7. Eat food you found on the mantle.
  8. Eat candy you found in a shoe.
  9. Visit a psychiatrist.
  10. Wipe somebody's nose with your bare hand.
  11. Let somebody barf in your bare hand.
  12. Eat baby food.
  13. Blame a fart on a child.
  14. Blame a child's fart on your spouse.
  15. Get someone dressed while you're in the shower.
  16. Pass out from blowing up a kiddie pool.
  17. Cut up a grape.
  18. Almost agree to cut up a raisin.
  19. Pretend to enjoy the flavor of a prune.
  20. Ask someone why their hair smells like Gogurt.
  21. Ask someone why their hair smells like your antiperspirant.
  22. Put someone else's toenail clippings in your pocket.
  23. Let someone watch you crap while they stare blankly eating a popsicle.
  24. Have someone think you're amazing at frisbee.

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Welcome to the club, new parents. Here's a short list containing just a few of the amazing and ridiculous things you'll get to do over the next five years. Butter a piece of toast while peeing. Brush...
Welcome to the club, new parents. Here's a short list containing just a few of the amazing and ridiculous things you'll get to do over the next five years. Butter a piece of toast while peeing. Brush...
 
 
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06:01 PM on 06/27/2012
I love this and have enjoyed your BLOG. Hope great things come your way! So damn funny...even my eight year old laughed. Gotta go, gotta cut the raisin.
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Not with a bang but a whimper
08:14 AM on 06/21/2012
23.Let someone watch you crap while they stare blankly eating a popsicle.
ROFLMAO.....it's funny because it's TRUE.
Love it
11:51 PM on 06/18/2012
This is great, and oh so true.

Try adding:
Telling someone 'Get your gumboots out of your mouth'.
Telling Someone 'Dont lick the car'.

There will be loads more that I cant think of right now, and that other parents have come up with
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10:00 AM on 06/16/2012
Slater peanut butter in your child's hair to remove the gum that is in your child's hair, even though your child isn't allowed to chew gum.
09:25 AM on 06/15/2012
I never thought I'd ever have to tell someone to stop licking the door knobs.... alas, I've said it many times in this house.
11:44 PM on 06/18/2012
I know that one. Haha.
01:29 PM on 06/14/2012
I've done 9 of these!
11:09 AM on 06/14/2012
How about: Chew a piece of gum directly out of the kid's mouth because there's nowhere to throw it away.
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07:58 PM on 06/13/2012
Frickin' fantastic. You've got the tip of the iceberg. Almost anything you can dream of that would be embarrassing, messy or downright nasty will eventually be something you add to your "yep, done that" checklist.

I would add, helping clean child vomit out of another adults mouth to the list.
After you stop gagging, you can't stop laughing.
01:59 PM on 06/13/2012
Love this! It inspired me to write "24 Things You Will Do as a Military Spouse" http://66.147.242.89/~twomoder/?p=222
12:40 PM on 06/13/2012
Ah, the memories.

I have sucked the dirt off pacifiers and stuck the "cleaned" pacifier in my kid's mouth.

I've bitten their fingernails and toenails.

I've awakened to find myself in a puddle of my own souring breast milk.

And things in hair . . . one time my daughter found our personal lube and used it as hair gel on her brother. That was mortifying.
12:23 PM on 06/13/2012
My parents did none of these things for me and I spent years in therapy...=) People, please try to have fun with life. But if your not, let the rest of us. Thanks for the laugh, Jason. Your awesome.
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12:28 AM on 06/13/2012
Can't stop laughing. I read it to my husband, and I was laughing so hard, both the kids started laughing. They know!
10:37 PM on 06/12/2012
I laughed at just about every one of these examples. And while I haven't experienced most of them. In some form or fashion I can still relate. Every parent has experienced one of those moments (like wiping a nose with their hand or maybe licking their finger clean after hand feeding their child, etc.) and would never have done those things pre-parenthood. To the people that are being critical need to get real or get a damn sense of humor. Parenting is a blast, it's comical at times, and it's the best experience and full of lessons learned.
09:41 PM on 06/12/2012
I just laughed out loud multiple times. Yes, I have done a variation of most of these. My personal claim to fame is taking a crap while putting a pair of crocs on someone else.
09:27 PM on 06/12/2012
To some of you who are naysaying and being rather stuck up...this is parenthood people. I have been puked on, peed on, and yes, pooped on when a diaper leaked. You know what? It was gross! Did I bat an eyelash? Nope! Because small children are gross, nasty, crusty little buggars that love you no matter what and it is a wild ride but guess what? This too shall pass!