It’s time to walk the red carpet! If you’re a parent this means following a trail of red juice on your new carpet to find your child annointing their stuffed animals. And you didn’t try to give them away! Congrats! You’d better check this list because you may have been nominated for an award!
Best lead bather goes to the parent who sniffs his/her child’s hair and/or armpits after a bath to ensure actual soap was used.
Best supporting bather goes to the parent who gets his/her child wet at least three times per week by either putting his/her child in the bathtub (in clean water) to play or goes swimming.
Best leading carpooler goes to the parent who pulls into the car line on two wheels and isn’t ashamed when fast food wrappers swirl out of his/her car like Fall foliage into the teacher’s face.
Best supporting carpooler goes to the parent shows up before the teachers leave.
Best folder checker goes to the parent who actually reads forms sent home by teachers without being reminded by his/her child.
Best supporting folder checker goes to the parent who at least empties his/her child’s folder into the trash to keep up appearances, making sure to shove all 1.2 million art projects and coloring sheets to the bottom of the garbage can to spare his/her child’s feelings.
Best lead lunch maker goes to the parent who continues to make lunches after Thanksgiving break.
Best supporting lunch maker goes to the parent who remembers to remove corn chips from his/her child’s lunch bag before the ants find them and/or keeps his/her child’s lunch account out of debt.
Best gymnastics parent goes to the parent who remembers a gym suit for class.
Best supporting gymnastics parent goes to the parent who at least digs an old swimsuit out of a leftover beach bag, and convinces his/her child that it’s totally acceptable for his/her underpants to hang out the sides.
Best parent goes to YOU. Because one way or another, you get it all done. Good job!
Today my fellow humorists Kelcey at Mama Bird Diaries and Ann at Ann’s Rants are sharing parenting awards along with me, as part of a sponsored post for Luvs diapers. The three of us will also host a Twitter party next Monday night, Feb 23rd, 8pm CST/9 pm EST where we are giving away up to $500 in gift cards and diapers. 500 dollars PLUS diapers?? Thanks Luvs! So put it on your calendar and you can tell us what parenting award you deserve!
Can we hire a folder checker? I need to farm that out.
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I’m a good folder checker! What’s the going rate?
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$100 gift card!
I want to hang out with the best leading carpooler. She sounds cool.
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Nice!!! It’s good to know there are other mom’s out there who do the same things I do. I try to keep up in every aspect but dang I have three children and sometimes a mom needs to cheat. Like during the winter when it’s dark early and I convince my children its 8 when its only 7 in order to try and get an extra hour of quiet. Yes it’s devious but sometimes I just need the kind of quiet that isn’t foretelling impending doom and this is only achieved when they are sound asleep.