Angry Working Mom

Duking it out in the cupcake aisle!

Enough people!

So chunky monkey is about to turn 1! I can't believe this last year has flown by! She is so fun right now.  

I'd been thinking about her upcoming birthday party and was ordering her cake at the bakery yesterday. I had a nutso lady that ran over to me, out of line, when she heard the lady taking my order gushing over the first birthday cake. 

This complete stranger literally ran over and said, "Surely you aren't serious that you are going to give a baby cake"? I barely looked over and continued on. The lady taking my order said we can do a couple of things..traditional cake, pudding and whipped cream, or a carrot cake..any who. 

Crazy lady twirps back with "Definitely a carrot cake would be good and better to use organic ingredients. As for the Cool Whip and instant pudding suggestion, that stuff is bad even for adults. Cool whip is all partially hydrogenated oil and instant pudding usually has red #40 or something. Sugar free will have aspartame or splenda, both terrible especially for children. People think splenda is "ok" - that it's made from sugar, but it is processed w/ chlorine! It's amazing to me how people don't know what's in our food. And even more amazing, the FDA allows it." 

I finally acknowledge her (clearly she's not going away) by saying, "Do you need something here, if not I am trying to place an order". She said, "No, I heard you and just wanted to educate you (seriously she said educate) on what you are thinking of putting into your baby's body."

I won't get into all of what I said...I'd like to pretend that I am much more dignified than I am!

But, settle down people! Are you serious? Do you run around as the high fructose corn syrup police? **A note: I am extremely conscious about what goes into my children, but I am not psychotic. I am also particular about what goes into my body and I am an exercise-aholic. Let me also say that Mrs. CrazyCornsyrup looked like she might want to cut back on the granola, dried fruit, and flax seeds.  I mean cut WAYYY back. (I am thinking she's sneaking a bag of Doritos or a box of Twinkies now and then, if you know what I mean?)

Good for you, Mrs. CrazyCornsyrup - something for you to monitor. However, (and hear this loudly and clearly) you making the world better one organic cupcake at a time stops at my ear! AWM has a lot on her plate and listening to the whiny beeyatch going on and on about high fructose corn syrup in my kid's first birthday cake is it. BRING it! It's my kids 1st B'day and we will have pictures of kiddo covered in cake..sue me.

To bring this AWM rant to an end . . . if you think that your superior parenting mentality is something the rest have to hear, be ready for an angry earful from this AWM. Kids go stand over there for one moment while mommy talks to the crazy lady....

Besides...you can always ride high on your kids living a much more enjoyable and peaceful life knowing that you didn't let your kids be tainted by dye # what the hell ever.  This cupcake's for you, Mrs. CrazyCornsyrup lady.  Enjoy!

Assumptive..the word heard 'round the world

Wasn’t there a woman who launched a thousand ships? Ok, I am no Helen, but yesterday a word launched a war at our house that I am sure has happened at yours at one time or another. OK, OK, before I go into this tirade, a little disclosure: My husband does a lot, much more than others that I know, he has to. I can’t do everything by myself. I travel a lot and it takes 2 of us (engaged). OK, there I said it, I am not super woman.

 

Yesterday, I flipped out over something minor (a pie I had made from scratch that I thought my honey took out of the freezer, but didn’t). That isn’t important, but a very interesting point came up. During the course of our “talking loudly” my lovely husband said, “I think things are going to change, I think that you are a little too assumptive about what I am doing around the house and it’s not appreciated.” Oh, dear Lord! The exchange that followed cannot be repeated here.  But, you can imagine.

 

This attitude floored me. Are you freaking kidding? I am standing in heels with a cashmere sweater   on making a gourmet dinner (Really, a roux was involved), and you are talking to me about being assumptive. I am not sure if he had been sitting on that one, or if he was feeling especially brave challenging an AWM with an 8 inch chef’s knife in her hand. Lorena, who, what?  [Here's a link for those of you too young to remember our ol' friend Lorena.]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

 

I just couldn’t get over it. I do so many things that no one even notices, unless I don’t do them, and you are suggesting that I am the one who is assumptive. Who do you think washes the dishes, scrubs the floor, cooks the meals, makes sure there are groceries to cook the forementioned meal, makes sure there are diapers, makes sure that the kids have everything they need for school (every $5 check and every gift for the teacher), who vacuums, who decorates for Christmas, who shops for Christmas? I could go on and on as could all of you.

 

The kicker is that he said: I put away the dinner (that I cooked) the previous night while you were messing around on the computer. BTW,  I was making a photo book on Shutterfly for his mother! My point is this. I am so freaking tired of this double standard. We are not June Cleaver with our husbands going out to work and we stay home to keep everything in order. We go out, earn a living and come home to the same stereotype. I want to know, why do men think they deserve a blow job for vacuuming the floor? I don’t ask for a piece of jewelry for mopping the floor.  Just sayin…