Parenthood

I need to vent people…

Something’s been bugging me for quite some time. I feel like I have to censor myself. I cannot say certain things because I know that sprinkles of the family fell on to Mommy Daddy Blog at some point in time. I want to say what I have to say, be real and honest without someone having a cow or holding a grudge. I don’t want to have to apologize in circles for ranting or remind myself how much I love them. The purpose of this blog is to connect with other parents who share the same interests, issues, etc and when I censor myself I give the impression that things are always honky dory over here.

I don’t want to publish private posts or post anonymously somewhere else. If I publish private posts, people will have to register to see them. There may be hundreds of people who will probably miss out on private posts because they have failed to register. If I publish private posts it may seem like I’m being “two faced”. They may also think what’s locked up is more than what it really is. My intention is not to stir up drama or embarrass the one(s) at fault, but to show that these types of things happen in our family as well as open the comments up to our readers who deal with those same issues. In the end ~~we ALL~~ most of us (I know I do) feel better!

Mommy Daddy Blog has brought on so many great opportunities and sometimes they are hard to explain why we have or do “stuff”. Some of our family know we have a “website” where we “talk about Boogie and parenthood” and because certain people stumble upon this “website” we get to do great “stuff”. Others we just tell them that we have “connections”. My mother’s not computer literate so I can keep things short with her. I can tell her that we have a “website” without her going Ooooo let me see and tell her because certain people stumble upon this “website” we get to do great “stuff”. She sends her congrats and doesn’t go any further. But the point I’m getting at is that she probably won’t visit this blog because she can’t even use a computer mouse. So that means I can rant about how yesterday she got on my nerves trying to hold Boogie while he was throwing his usual I need a nap fit, how she insisted that I check his diaper, how his head itches because he was rubbing it, and how his teeth were bothering him because he was chewing on his rattle.

How will I be able to accept her congrats for doing “such and such” all because certain people stumbled upon this “website”, the same “website” I just ranted about her on? The same goes for anyone else I rant about. I found it so easy to rant about my mother because I know the chances are slim that she’d even sit at a computer. She has one, but she won’t touch it. But what if she learned how to use a computer? I’m actually supposed to be teaching her. I don’t think it’s fair to rant about people because I know they won’t make their way over to Mommy Daddy Blog. It’s all or nothing.

Have you ever been in the area of a family member (one who has been very generous to you), but you were there taking care of business (on someone else’s time) and they had a cow because ~~you~~ the baby didn’t stop by? How did you handle it?

Things like this happen all of the time and I feel like we have to put baby visits on the top of our priorities. And because these things keep happening I won’t be quick to accept anymore gifts/help. We are still trying to sort out things as new parents, new parents who are still getting settled in our new place, but I guess it’s just too much to understand with gorgeous grins and giggles on the brain. So now I have to feel guilty each time I change a diaper…120 times.

Here I am censoring myself again, I didn’t even out the culprit, but my own mother I did. This is a case of reality blogging gone bad.