14 Days of Laughter with Bright Starts.
CLOSED!
Congratulations, Selena!
o
The Fourteen Days of Laughter are here! (& just in time, after a doozy like yesterday) You’ve seen me Tweet & Facebook & basically be a raging tease minus fish net stockings, but I am so honored to be a part of the Bright Starts kickoff of their new Ingenuity line. Because it’s Bright Starts, y’all. & ten bucks says that like me, you already have a product of theirs that your kid is currently drooling on. & the awesome part about this kick-off? It’s a give-away. As in, the winner takes a pick of a big-ticket item from the Ingenuity line. That’s right. Someone is going to win a swing. Or a pack n’ play. Or a bouncer. NOW YOU SEE WHY I TEASED YOU?!?! Because I was so excited, I wanted to explode!
If you have a kid like Harrison, you spend many hours literally bouncing the child in your arms, on your knee, etc. (if you’re still brewing a kid, I pray that you do not have a kid that likes to bounce considering I’m pretty sure my knee will NEVER stop jiggling at this point) We had a bouncer, but it only vibrated. I won’t name names, but COME ON. My kid doesn’t want to be vibrated! HE WANTS TO BE BOUNCED. SO WHERE THE HELL IS THE BOUNCING?!
It’s here:
Ladies (& gentlemen), may I present to you the Ingenuity Automatic Bouncer, aka SOMEONE FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT!! The hybridive (look, I’m not an engineer. don’t ask me) keeps it bouncing, just like a mother’s arms. On two different speeds. With music or water sounds, if you so choose. & it’s so sweetly soft. It’s also perfect for serving oatmeal & applesauce in the evenings:
The toys are sweetness & one of my FAVORITE things is how neutral it is. Because a) I don’t dig loud & obnoxious-looking toys that don’t blend into my home and b) I can use it for a boy or a girl. & it was super-easy to put together, even at ten o’clock at night. Oh, it washes well, too. Harrison already christened the headrest three times with oatmeal & vom.
My only complaint? I wish there was a third bounce speed that bounced harder & faster. Because Harrison REALLY liked bouncing to the point of needing a bungee cord off the back deck to keep him from crying. Maybe that’s a safety thing but if it’s not, those of us with Babies That Demand Bouncing would like more speed, please.
I know, I know…shut up, Blair, & get to the good stuff. One lucky person will win an Ingenuity product of your choice! So here’s the details:
Share “that moment” that you realized you became your own mother.
It doesn’t have to be baby-related – maybe it was the moment you carried a pie over to your new neighbor. Maybe it was the moment you said “EFF IT” to homemade tomato sauce & broke down for Ragu. Or maybe it was the moment you marched across the playground & told your child that if they didn’t stop hanging upside down on the monkey bars, they were going to crack their head open & you didn’t have time for the Emergency Room.
For extra entries (not mandatory, but please write a separate comment for each entry):
- Become a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/BrightStarts)
- Tweet this & let me know your Twitter name in the comment: Enter to win big with @heirtoblair & Bright Starts Ingenuity! http://wp.me/pv8EV-w4 #brightstarts
Also, Submit your stories to Make Mom Laugh for a coupon code toward a Bright Starts order. One mom’s story will be chosen each week to share with the Bright Starts fans!
Best of luck!! I will select the winner on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
Filed under: Give Aways!, Harry in General
I knew I had become my own mother when I told my daughter she had to read every day before the TV could be turned on….I seem to recall disliking that one as a child!
I tweeted!
I’m a Bright Starts FB Fan
I knew I had become my mother when my darling sister informed me that i did everything just the way mom did and my response was so what!
I am a fan of Bright Stars on FB!
I became my own Mom when I started singing David Bowie and Beatles songs to my little boy!
And I tweeted this (@mylittlenoopy), and I became a FB fan!
The day I knew I had become my mother was when I told my husband, if he wasn’t going to answer his phone, he wasn’t going to have a phone and was totally serious.
I am a FB fan!
I knew I became my own mother when I was talking to my daughter in the exact same baby voice my mother uses! And I used to get so annoyed with her when she used it on other babies saying “you know you’re supposed to talk to them in a regular voice or they will talk to you in a baby voice!” hahaha
and now i sound like her! “awww does wittle kirsten need her baba????” oh god!!!!!!!!!
I’m a Bright Starts FB fan.
I’m a facebook fan!
I tweeted.
Oops, forgot my twitter name. @Jocelyn0887
I tweeted the event! @PGHmommy
I realized I had become my mother when I started talking to my younger sister the way my mom talked to me. I thought, “Whoa! I sounded just like Mom. Yikes!”
The day I knew I had become my mother…is when I put on my first pair of non-maternity jeans after having my son…and I realized my butt had disappeared. It was like looking at the backside of my mother in the mirror. : )
I realized I became a Mom when I didn’t care about the dried up spit-up on my shoulder when I had to run to the store!
I realized I became my own mother when I cleaned up a fountain of vomit without batting an eye! I never knew how my Mom did it when we were younger. Now I know… you do what you have to do to get your baby comfy & happy (& smelling nice).
Oh no I don’t want to admit this!! But I’d really love to win!
I knew I was my Mother when I yelled at my son one day and I sounded SPITTING IMAGE of how my Mom used to sound. To the “T: I sounded just like her voice and thought to myself O-M-G never again! That was a rough awakening……
Jenprincess88 at aol dot com
fb fan of Bright Starts already
Jenprincess88 at aol dot com
I knew I had become my mother when my stepson (just 3 at the time) fell down and I laughed. No, my Mother and I are not horribly mean mommies. It’s just that usually, kids get upset if adults act concerned. So my Mom always laughed at us and then we’d laugh too. So I tried it. Usually works too. (Though you feel terrible when they really are hurt).
the moment i realized i became my mother was when i couldn’t put noah down. i literally could EAT him lol. my mom is very “in your face i want to eat you i love you so much” and that is totally how i am with noah. to this day, i’m 27 years old, my mom will make me sit on her lap. and i can totally see myself being this way. i will always be her baby no matter how old i am, and i think that’s not such a bad thing no matter how suffocating it feels to be that child lol.
i also became a fan of bright starts on fb
tweeted @noahbythesea
I realized I had become my own mother when I was baby talking to DS one day and my lovely husband looked at me with the “Dear God, what have you transformed into” look.
I knew I was a mom when I started pointing with my finger every time I told my son not to do something. Before that I was just a woman loving on little babies…but now I am a mom who has to discipline and train her little ones to grown up and be good people. I can probably do that without pointing though!
My mom ends all of her questions with “or what?” and it drives me nuts. It sounds so confrontational, even if she’s asking a simple question in a nice way. Lately I’ve been ending questions with “or what?” How did this happen?!?!?!
I’m not entering because I’m nothing like my mother, thank goodness. Does it count if we are like our fathers who was basically the dad and mom? If so, I realized I’m like him because no matter how hard Ethan cries or screams I’m very patient (if I were like my mom smoke would come out of my ears and my neighbors would hear me yelling). I didn’t think I’d be patient, but I really really hoped I wouldn’t get upset.
I’m mostly writing to say that Harrison is so adorable!
Sorry, forgot to add that I’m friends with them on Facebook
I became my own mother when I told my husband he could not use his plastic insulated cup at the dinner table. Please switch that beverage into a glass, thankyouverymuch.
Many of the best things I do make me realize I’ve become my mother. Even though when I was a child I felt like she never let me do anything I wanted to do and it always had to be her way or the highway, as I grew older I realized that was because she wanted me to become a respectable, successful woman. My mother is amazing and I can only hope to be half the mom she has been to me!
I knew I became my own mother when my mom and I both said the exact same thing to my daughter at the exact same time! This happened 3 times in one day!
Gosh, I hope this still counts as an entry:
I realized that I am NOTHING like my mother when:
-My daughter was born and I adored her
-When I opened a bank account for my daughter to plan ahead for her future
- I make decisions that are unselfish
~ just to name a few..
Sometimes you consciously make yourself aware so that you don’t become your mother, and that I do.
fan of brightstar on facebook
I realized I became my mother when every time my husband leaves, I say, “Be safe.” and he knows to reply with, “Always.” To this day, my mom says it every.time.we.talk. and the verbiage is always the same:-)
I am a fan of BS on facebook. Thanks:-)
Woo Hoo to gold medals in hockey! Booooo to not getting to enter the giveaway contest.
And for the record (even though I can’t officially enter), I’m with Cindy. I’m happy that I’m not turning into my mother. I’m doing everything I can to do things differently than she did, and I’m proud of the mom I’m becoming.
It DEFINITELY still counts
This made me laugh because just the other day I stormed into the living room, hand on hip & finger pointing at my husband, and yelled “if you do not learn to put your dishes in the sink or dishwasher, you will come home one day to NOT A SINGLE DISH to use” and stormed off. Yeah, totally my Mother at that moment.
Became a fan on FB.
The moment I realized I have become my mother? It is an every day occurance–my mother and I share an office in our family business and I am fortunate enough to bring my son to work with me. She and I have a constant battle (in a good way) over who is going to feed, change, play, ect..with DS. Both of us are one in the same right down to our obnoxious laugh to our love for DS!
Tweeted! @TCB1025
Oh God. Save me from turning into my mother who I love more than life but who I do not want to *be* for the rest of my life. That being said, I KNEW I was turning into my mother when I was changing J’s diaper one day and I started making up a song about it. Really. A song. About diapers. And that’s when I decided there are worse people to turn into… at least when it comes to raising kids.
oh and I am also a fb fan!
I’m a fbook fan of Bright starts!
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on facebook!
And I’m tweeting now… lawmomma77
I realized I became my mother the same day I realized I married my father.
When I licked my finger to get something off my son’s face…
tweet: angie608@gmail.com
I realized I was turning into my mom when I told my husband to take his feet off of the coffee table or to take his shoes off. I always always put my feet on the coffee table or couch with shoes on and always get yelled at for it. I was shocked the other day when those words came out of my mouth and I think DH was too!
I realized I had become my mother when my husband and I bought our first home. Growing up my mom was a cleaning / organizing freak and I thought she was crazy for never relaxing on the weekends. Now that I am grown and own my own home, I also spend my weekends making sure the house is spotless and the yard is tended, etc. My husband always yells at me to sit down and relax! I believe I have inherited her OCD…ugh.
My mom always does this thing when she is driving where she moves her mouth and face like she is talking but no word s come out because she is talking to herself. We have taunted her for this because she looks like she is totally off her rocker.
Except.
My husband caught me doing this when I was bathing my dd last night.
It was the lowest point of my life.
I am a fb fan of bright starts
When I co-slept with my newborn.
I realized I became my mother when I licked my finger and wiped off my son’s face. She constantly did that to my siblings and I and I hated it…until I tried it
I am also a fan of BS on FB!
I knew the moment I became a mother was when I could tell what my child was crying or whining for within half a second. Also, when I stomped in because his grandmother was feeding him water and “MY CHILD ISN’T READY FOR WATER YET! GIVE IT TO ME!” was my argument….
haha. Mommy knows best.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB.
I don’t have kids yet (first one on the way woohoo!!), but I’m sure when I do I’ll notice myself more and more like my Mom! I hope so!!!
Thanks!
Kim
I became my mother when I started using saliva to get food/stains off my son’s face, as well as to tame his cowlicks!
I’m a bright starts FB fan.
I tweeted! gsc418
I became my mother when I finally stopped trying to change my laugh. My whole life, I’ve had the same laugh as her, but it always seemed too loud, too explosive, too much so I tried to change it. But the day I decided to just embrace it and laugh my natural laugh was the day I realized I had become her.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB
I re-tweeted for ya! @Earley_Edition
I knew I was completely turning into my mother when I was arguing with my husband one day.
I had asked him to pick up his work tools from the front hallway for about a week. Finally I blurted out “When I ask you to do something, I mean NOW!” Yikes, my kids are in trouble.
I became my own mother when I started freaking out every.single.time. my husband played with our daughter thinking she was going to get hurt. Hubby flying her around the room like an airplane? Me: “GASP! OMFG you are going to hit her head on the cabinets! BE CAREFUL!”. Hubby sitting with one leg crossed over the other with baby resting against it? Me: “GASP! OMFG she it totally going to fall through the hole onto the floor! BE CAREFUL!!”. You get the point. He kept laughing at me and telling me I was overreacting, of course I told him he was crazy! One day he looked over and smiled and said “You are such a mom! Nothing is going to hapen to her!”. Yup, I guess I am officially a mom!
I tweeted!
I am a fan of Bright Starts on FB.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB!
Growing up my mom always shopped for us at thrift stores. She said we grew too fastand made too much of a mess to pay full price for clothes. I used to be slightly embarrassed of my hand-me-downs (ok, maybe a lot embarrassed!), so I never told anyone that my clothes came from a thift store.
My mom literally jumped for joy when I suggested to her last week that we look for baby furniture at Salvation Army. We ended up finding a dresser/changing table in near perfect condition to use in the nursery! When we walked to the baby clothes, I found several outfit that were new with tags. I couldn’t believe I was buying my child clothes for a second hand store – exactly what I swore I would never do.
Looks like my mom wasn’t trying to embarrass me, afterall. She was just being a smart mom!
I tweeted about the giveaway! (butterfly1979_)
I realized I’d become my mother when I started swearing at pie crust. My mother and I are both culinary perfectionists, so delicate tasks such as rolling pie crust yield a lot of F bombs, G-Ds and similar gems. Luckily, both our husbands know to steer clear of us when we have rolling pins in our hands!
The day I knew I became my mother is when I was rocking my newborn daughter and started singing made-up songs to her. And it hit me. OMG. My mother did this and STILL DOES THIS to this day and it drives me CRAZY. And now I am just like her. And you know what? It makes me smile because I have the best mom ever and even though I swore I would not act as nuts as she does, I’m glad there is so much of her in me.
FB fan and Twitter name is lalabee0425.
I knew I became my mother after the birth of my son. When we are in the car driving and other cars are driving erratically or swerving in and out of traffic narrowly missing us, I now GASP!! I used to hate it when my mom did this!! I think it is just a reflex I have now, worrying someone is going to hit the side the car seat is on.
Also, if I need to slam on the brakes, I put my hand over the passenger seat as if there were a person there. My mom always did this too. Not like a hand is really going to stop anything from flying forward, but again, it is a reflex.
Becoming a mom really does change you!
When my daughter was 8 weeks old I managed to get both her and me ready to go out to the grocery store. When I was half way there I realized I wasn’t wearing a lick of makeup. I had a 2.2 second freak out, and then decided I didn’t even care. THAT’s when I realized I had become my mother…
Opps, forgot to put my Twitter name:
freshmaker05
I became a fan on facebook
The day I told my toddler to quit crying or I’d give her something to cry about.
Oh, this JUST happened… and I wasn’t too happy about it. My mom is lacking the stop sign between her brain and her lips- she says whatever she wants, often resulting in embarrassment for me. Over the weekend we had a GNO and there was a “new” girl in our group… beyond exhausted and desperately trying to include her and get to know her while the others were in their own world I said a few things that I look back on now and squirm. I thought “you were just like your mom out there” and wanted to crawl into a corner and die! Yay for awkward moments… NOT!
I tweeted – wallycat
I havent had that realization yet, and probably wont ever have it. We are very different people.
I’ve become a fan on facebook! With 4 weeks to go before my little one arrives, I could REALLY use the bouncer and the pack n play!
I realized I became my own mother when I began obsesively cleaning my house for guests to come over.
And when the husband said, No dear, I don’t think they will look at the baseboards and I said
WELL THEY NEED TO BE SPOTLESS ANYWAY…
that’s when I knew.
But at least my house is clean.
I knew I became my mother when I had my baby boy! She did most everything right with my sister and I. My life has always been filled with love and happiness (too much puppies and rainbows?) and I strive everyday to make sure that my little boy grows up feeling that way too!
I became a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook too
It was pretty easy – I knew I had become my mother when my brother gave me this quizzical look, then said to me, “You’re sounding more and more like Mom every day…” And I don’t think he meant it as a compliment.
I became BS… Bright Starts fan on FB.
I knew I became my mom when I started yelling at FH about putting his dishes in the dishwasher and not the sink. My mom abhors it when we put our dishes in the sink if the dishwasher is empty. And it is always empty.
I knew then I was my mom. & that’s not a bad fate at all.
kikisescapades (AT) gmail (DOT) com
Twittered!!
@Kiki_Dawn
kikisescapades (AT) gmail (DOT) com
Facebook Fan!!!
kikisescapades (AT) gmail (DOT) com
I realized I became my own mother when getting puked, peed, and pooped on didn’t even faze me!
I tweeted @kendallpopp
I became mom when I told my husband to watch his language in front of our son. I am guilty of it as well, but have really learned to not swear in front of him. Our house is now a no swearing zone, because I just don’t think it is appropriate.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on facebook
I realized I became my own mother when I pulled the old lick my finger and rub a stain off of my son’s face! Gross!!
The latest moment I realized I become my mother, I was trying to get my little girl ready for preschool. She was complaining she had nothing to wear umongst all her clean clothes (this is when I realized she was just like me) and I threw my hands up and said “Fine, go to school naked!” and left the room. Or when I told her that all the toys in the back of the car were for my “friends” kids for christmas. I kid you not, that was my mother, word for word
When my husband and I started dating and he became close enough to the family that my mom would send him e-mails, he would always have to ask me what the hell my mom was talking about. I would ruefully “translate” all the random jokes, off-the-point narratives and SAT vocab words, and would swear that my e-mails would remain concise and clear.
I realized I became my mother when I sent my husband an e-mail and it made absolutely no sense. To him, that is, because my mother or my aunt would have totally understood every random joke and SAT vocab word.
Ah well, there are worse things! (And I’m sure I will act even more like my mom when baby #1 is born in 6 months, so…. pick me! Pick me!)
I knew I had become my mother the first time I told my daughter to clean her room and I combined it with the right index finger super-point to emphasize how enormous the mess was. It’s kind of a scary realization.
I became a fan on FB. sallyv04 at hotmail dot com
I have not become my mother, and I hope I don’t. I love my mom, and she is my best friend, but we are very different people.
I realized I was my mother when my daughter was whining in the back seat and I gave her candy to get her to stop. Now normally I’m a big no candy person, but I had had it! And it worked. LOL
I’m a Bright stars fb fan
I realized that I had become my mother before I even gave birth. One day, hubs and his brother were shooting rubber bands at each other, and I responded, “Knock it off! You’ll shoot an eye out!”
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times my mom uttered that phrase growing up!
I became a fan on FB.
Ok – totally mushy but true story……I realized I had become my mother when I first found out I was pregnant and my heart swelled two fold for the new life I was creating. I always wondered how my mum had so much love to go around and that’s the first time I realized that she didn’t have to ration it – the supply grew to fill the need.
I realized it when I ran outside in my pjs with no makeup and rain boots (that looked redic with the pjs) to yell at someone who was honking their horn when my daughter was napping.
I am also a fan on facebook
I knew I was my mom when I started putting all of my daughter’s food on sectioned plates and having fun doing it! Oh, that and constantly thinking that my baby is cold and needs to wear a jacket when we go outside even if it’s for one minute. Weird, I know.
[...] 2 – The Heir to Blair Blog Giveaway – ends [...]
I knew I became my own mother when I becoming a planner and made 10 lists a day!
I knew I had become my mother when I tell my husband to call me whenever he gets to his destination when he goes out. If he doesn’t, I am a nervous wreck and end up calling him.
and I am fan of Bright Stars on FB!
I twittered! @egilje2
I rued my 7:30 bedtime when I realized that some parents let their kids stay up until *gasp* 8:30 or *horror* 9:30, whereas my mom made us go to bed right after the 7:30 episode of Inspector Gadget. Never would I ever enforce such a rigidly strict bedtime.
Except that now I put Aidan down by 7:00pm EVERY NIGHT because I need both adult-time with my husband and my sanity, thankyouverymuch. My mom had the right idea all along.
I realized it when I looked in the mirror and was wearing bad sweats and ugly shoes (b/c they were comfy!) and looked overweight, utterly exhausted, but happy. I take back those decades of rolling my eyes at my mom who I thought never looked “cool” enough… now I understand why
I also became a fan of Bright Starts on FB!
I’m still brewing our little one, but I’ve realized more lately that I’m becoming my mom when I crack “jokes” and laugh hysterically, only to find I’m the only one that thought it was actually funny.
My mom and I are the funniest people we know and we both live by the saying “She who can laugh at herself, will never cease to be amused”.
I knew i was my mothers daughter when i found myself saying to my son ” when I was your age” or “becasue Im the boss” or if you dont like it call gramdma!!
Is Harrison sitting up!?! Did he do that by himself?!! Can he sit unsupported on the floor?
I discovered that I had become my mom when I was delivering extra pumpkin pies to the neighbors on Thanksgiving morning with the munchkin in my arms and flip flops in the snow…
oops im also a fan on facebook
Ugh. I cannot believe this ever came out of my mouth but I recently told my husband that our kitchen was “hetrocious”. Yes, I know that isn’t a real word. However it is the word that my mom always used to describe our bedrooms. “You are not leaving this house until you clean your room. It is hetrocious!”
I’m a fan on Facebook
I actually noticed I was becoming my Grandmother (my mom’s mother) when I was in college and started doing things like losing my cell phone, laughing too loudly in public, or getting ice water at Starbucks and leaving it on top of my car.
Becoming like my mother came more gradually until I had my first son and started making up songs and using non-sense words with not only the baby, but everyone else as well!
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on FB
tweeted via @ShanLeAnn
http://bit.ly/aSWhyM
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB
I tweeted about this giveaway!
@houseofbrodt
http://www.houseofbrodt.blogspot.com
I became my own mother when I was finally able to hold my tongue and not tell my younger sister exactly what she was doing wrong & needed to do to fix it. (My sis is 22 and is dating the WRONG GUY). I don’t know how my mom let us make our own mistakes over the years, it’s so hard to keep my mouth shut & let my little sis learn on her own!
I’m a bright stars fan on facebook!
I noticed that I had become my mother when I could recall all these facts that are mostly useless, just like my mom
I knew I had become my mother the minute I had given birth to my daughter. I cry. and I cry. I cry at the cute little shoes that my daughter wears, at the way she smiles and coos at me before I lay her to bed, I cry because the dog got a drink of water and it sounded adorable! I constantly have tissues on me in case my eyes start leaking at a moments notice. But it always feels great afterwards =) Who doesn’t feel good after a great cry.
I knew I became my own mother when I refused my husband’s offer to buy me new shoes, even though my only black flats are spliting at the seam to save money for something the baby may need. As a shoe-addict I have never ever given up the opprotunity to buy shoes for anything before.
I became my mother when I became a nagging bitch. I love my mom – to death, but my poor dad! And now…my poor husband! But don’t worry, off to the doc this afternoon for some “chill pills”.
I knew I became my own mother when I gave my students a dance combination (of my own creation) and they said that it was the same as one my mother made them do the week before in her class!
I realized I had become my mother when picking up a mess of paper and crappy toys left by my step-kids — everything went into the trash! My attitude? “If you just abandoned it like this, it must not be important to you.” My mother used to do that tornado-like cleaning and it drove me crazy as a kid!
I became a fan on FB!
I realized I was turning into my Mom when I started singing her signature wake up song. You begin with an un naturally loud and screechy voice and then chant “GOOOOOOD Mor-ning, good morning, good mor-NING to YOU” Completing the song with two smooches. My poor boys… although, now my 3 year old sings it to his newborn brother every morning so he must love it!
I became my mother when I realized I was returning peoples dishes with something I had made in them. “Never return an empty dish.”
Also tweeted! Twitter name is ShoeFanatic614.
I’ll do all the contest entry fun stuff later. Just wanted to add that BS seriously saved my sanity, marriage, and quite possibly my son! Hehe. He would scream in every.single.effing.machine we bought until we found that ingenuity portable swing. He’d also like something faster like Harrison would like a faster bounce, but either way. BEST.THING.EVER.
My mom and I are both teachers. I sub for her class once when I was still in college. The whole day her students were saying you are just like your mom. I think that is when it hit me. Although I’ve always known I’m basically her clone and I accept that because she is pretty awesome. I now have my own little clone.
I tweeted @saylucky
I remember one day when I was baby sitting my cousins, they were acting like absolute ANIMALS (ages 5 and 6 both boys) and I said, “you’re gonna break your neck doing that.” My mom used to tell us ALL THE TIME we were going to break out necks doing whatever activity she wanted us to stop.
There have been several times since then that I’ve wanted to cry because I’ve realized I swallowed my mom. EEP.
I am already a fan of bright stars on FB–I love their products!!!!
And btw, I too have a reflux baby that LOVES to bounce and the vibrating bouncy chair SO doesn’t cut it…we need more…
I knew I became my own mother when I woke up on a Sunday morning and hurried for the newspaper so I could clip the coupons and go to the store. I am now another coupon lady!
Twitter–mee83shell
I just tweeted ya blair
I knew I became my mom when I told my son, “Because I said so!”
I realized that I had become my mother when I looked at the clock and realized that I do all my cleaning after midnight when everyone is asleep. Also, she has a bad habit of not taking daily showers, and this is embarassing to admit, but I have two babes (19 m/o and 8 m/o) and sometimes it just doesn’t happen.
I tweeted, and my twitter name is vernie_mac.
I realized I was my mother when I was able to clean up spitup with one hand and continue eating with the other hand. meowmix75@live.com
I am now a fan of Bright Starts. And by the way, I have to admit that I never understood why a “bouncer” is named that because it doesn’t bounce. Vibrating is not bouncing.
I knew I became my mother when I would look at my own hand gestures thinking ‘Where have I seen that hand before? Oh Lord, it’s my mothers!!!’ Now I look to see if my daughter has them too
The moment I knew I became a mother, a REAL mother is when my boobs were ravaged by tigers, I mean stretchmarks, and I looked at myself in the mirror and smiled.
I smiled because I knew why they were there, because of my son, the love of my life. Scars that will be there for eternity to remind me of how much I love him and what I went through to get him here. It’s not about me anymore, everything about my life is about him now. Motherhood doesn’t have time for vanity.
And I’m a FB fan!
It’s not what I’ve done, it’s how I look. I now have my mothers tired tired eyes. Now I know why she had them!
I tweeted itttttt!
Alena29
And I tweeted @themommamaven
And Immma FB fan of Bright Starts!
I rt’ed your tweet! slgass730
I became a fan of Brightstars!!
I realized I became my mom when I was 18 – and started talking and acting like her – in every sense of the word. My brother calls me Little Joyce
I forgot to elaborate on why this is why I’m like my own mother. She never cared about herself, while raising us she lost the whole youthful charm and vanity and care for her appearance. Where I on the otherhand was the opposite, doing modeling, being a cheerleader, everything was about appearance, everything was all superficial. And now that I have my son I realize that none of that matters, I understand where my mom was coming from. I could care less if I’m wearing a paper bag as long as my son is happy and cared for!
I used to always like to be places just on time (if I had to be somewhere at 5:00 I would arrive exactly at 5:00). This drove my mother absolutely crazy! Her belief is that if you are not 15minutes early, then you are late. I’m not sure the first time it happened but my goodness I have become her and more! I am usually 20 minutes early to all appointments and my mom now laughs and teases me about it.
Although there are a lot worse things I could become than my mother
The day I realized I was my mom was the day I told one of my students “Because I said so….” I literally stopped mid sentence and didn’t make the kid do whatever I had told him to do. -Gosh I am so my mom it isn’t even funny.
I am a fan on facebook
I tweeted. @monkeyheads_mom
I realized I had become my mother when my little brother moved in with my husband and me when he took a year off in between college and grad school. He would stay out all night and I couldn’t sleep until I knew he was home. Some nights he would spend the night out and I would call and text all the next morning and worry until I got in touch with him. I would chew him out and tell him that I thought he was “in a ditch somewhere” He eventually knew to call when he was spending the night out or staying late!
When I go shopping, I realized that clearance makes my heart race, and I am always looking for a good deal. And then I realized I became my mother.
I realized I had became my mother when I started crying at TV Commercials: Hallmark, Bank commercials, even MLB commercials!
I became a fan on facebook.
I tweeted the giveaway!
I tweeted! @JLandreth
I knew I became my mother when I acknowledged the piles of mail on my table that I hadn’t gotten around to shredding or filing yet. I was always on her about that!
Facebook fan!
I am now a fan of Bright Stars on Facebook
I realized it awhile ago and my poor niece was the target.
She had squeezed her puppy so hard it squealed in pain. I put my hands on my hips and it a forceful tone, yelled her FIRST and MIDDLE name. Just like mom used to do to me and my brothers when we got in trouble.
I went outside and burst into tears cause I realized what just happened.
and i’m FB bright starts fan
I knew I had become my mother when I developed a precise routine for cleaning my kitchen.
Facebook fan.
Tweeted @tonilb16
I knew I was becoming my mother when…
I received a phone call that a friend was in the hospital. I dropped everything I was doing and baked 3 large pans of double chocolate brownies.
When in distress…bake.
I tweeted
(@mrsWinePrincess)
Still pregnant….but so far one of the moments I felt that I was slowly on my way of becoming like my mother was when at the grocery store last week I decided to stock up on cupcake wrappers because I know that my mom never ran out and I definitely don’t want to be the momma that doesn’t have all the necessities for cupcakes!
I realized I had become my mother after finding out I had Melanoma – because I am now just as obsessed with sunscreening my child as she always was.
The moment I realized I became my mother was when my little girl was crying and I said, “If I couldn’t cry any better than that I would quit.” I used to hate it when my mom said it and now I catch myself saying it alot,
I became a fan!
And, I don’t have Twitter… but, if I did, I’d totally tweet about the giveaway! And, yes, I’m trying to sneak in an extra entry
I knew I had become like my mom when I started looking for natural, homeopathic remedies verses traditional medicines! Peppermint Oil anyone?
I became like my mom when I realized I had my crying baby on my lap at the dining room table as I was trying to eat, carry on a conversation with my husband, and flip through a magazine at the same time. Who does that?! My mommy.
I realized I was my mother when I was at the zoo with 3 kids, one on a “baby leash” and the other I was telling to wipe her nose on the inside of her shirt. Things I swore I’d never do!!
I new I had become my mother the day I looked at my four year old and (in response to the millionth question of the day) said because I’m the mom and I said so that’s why. I used to hate it when my mom said that to me!
I realized I had become my mother when I walked by the mirror in my bedroom and thought it was her. OMG! It was me!!
Good thing my mother is amazing or else I’d be in some big trouble!
I’m a Bright Starts FB fan!
I’m sure there are other moments, but today I asked my toddler to stay out of her brother’s room, because I had just vacuumed. Seriously. My mom was crazy about keeping the vacuum lines unwalked on, and I never wanted to do that!
I knew I had become my mother when I dressed my daughter in her cutest smocked outfit, lacey socks, and shoes just to go to the grocery store!
I realized I had become my mother one Saturday when I got up at 7am to clean the house. I still weep for that day.
I knew I became my mother when I started throwing my right arm across the passenger seat whenever I had to suddenly hit the brakes. (Although, now she protects her purse instead of the passenger. I guess she’s been riding alone for too long.)
I am a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook.
I tweeted (heatherbusch)
We always teased my mom about the fact that we would find her hot tea mug in the microwave because she had put it there to reheat it and gotten sidetracked before she could drink it. Again. Well, guess what I find in my microwave on a regular basis? Yep, my morning tea mug, still at least half full, even tho it’s now supper time!
I am so my mother!
I’m now a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook!
I’m a FB fan!
I knew I became my mother when I decided to stop coloring my hair! Since I was 17, I had been a slave to the blonde highlights. I never understood why my mom refused to color her hair, although she went grey pretty early. She always said she was proud of her grey and didn’t mind it, and to be honest, it blended nicely with her dark blonde natural color, and it really does suit her. Last year, at 27, I discovered my first grey hair. And, like my mom, I said “eff this. I’m ebracing my grey!” I’ve been through a lot to earn this grey hair, and in the right light, it really just looks like a shimmery light blonde… so I’ve been growing out the highlights ever since!
I realized I was becoming my Mom when I started calling the dog my baby’s name and my baby by the dog’s name on accident. I’m sure the problem will multiply when I have more children.
I became an FB fan!
The day I realized I was my mother was when I bought a coupon folder to store my coupons. The best part was when my husband told my mom about it, in a teasing manner and she told him she had one as well. Two of a kind!
I am a Bright Starts fan on FB!
I realized I became my own mother when Connor was 15 months old and almost died. My mom always tried to explain to me growing up how much she loved me and that a mother’s love was like no other, etc, etc. And as much as I loved Connor, I didn’t realize how much until we almost lost him to a choking incident that I still can’t think about without crying. I finally understood that deep love that only a mother can have and understood what she had tried to explain to me all those years. And I try to tell Connor every day how much I love him, just like my mother did (and still does) me.
Blair – you are in my thoughts and prayers every day!! Love you girl!
I tweeted!
(Butter22)
I knew I became my own mother when I started singing “You are my Sunshine” to Bella when she didn’t feel good. I remember my mom doing that for me so many nights with a cool cloth on my forehead.
I tweeted!
I’m a FB fan of Bright Starts.
I knew I had become my own mother the first time my little boy was gassy. Growing up, my mom was a HUGE proponent for going natural… especially when it came to medicine. We wouldn’t get any kind of OTC medicine unless we really really needed it. When my son was gassy, I agonized for HOURS about putting one teeny little drop of Mylicon into his system to make him more comfortable. And then I finally broke down and did it.
Just became a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook.
Tweeted about the giveaway @MinnesotaMama09.
I realized I became my mother when someone else loaded my dishwasher, trying to help me out, and I reloaded it in my own OCD style, just like my mother does.
Also, I fanned Bright Starts on FB
I knew I became my mother when I started getting really excited about dishes. I always asked her why she needed so many different dishes. Now I have like 4 or more different sets of salad plates and two sets of regular plates. PLUS holiday plates. What is wrong with me?
)
I dont know the exact moment, but I look in the mirror and see her everyday… and when I open my mouth, I hear her voice and accent… its scary stuff!
fan on FB
tweeted http://twitter.com/harmskills
I tweeted earlier. My twitter name is @Jen_Schoeph
My mom always refers to her dog as my sister, and my dog as her dog’s niece. I adore my dog and while I think of her as my kid, it makes me cringe when my mom makes these anthropomorhizing comments. But then it happened… I referred to my dog as my bun in the oven’s “big sister”. Eish.
I knew I had become my own mother when I looked in the mirror and the face that looked back at me was more my mom than the young adult I once knew!
I am a fan of Bright Starts on FB.
Thanks!
i realized i became my own mother when my husband asked me how many times i was going to tell him the same story over and over and over again….
ahhhh the joys of mommy brain….
i’m a fan on FB
I realize that I am my mother every time that I leave a rambling voicemail for someone…in fact I usually come to the realization mid-message and I tell the recipient of the message.
I became a fan of Bright Stars on FB
I’m Canadian so I’m not eligible but I just wanted to say that Harrison is getter more adorable by the DAY! Seriously one of the cutest babies I have ever seen. Seriously.
Carry on.
I knew I had become my mother when I found myself singing the creepy British childrens’ songs to Gage. Wanna hear one…
“Three naughty young bunnies who would not obey
When momma bunny said you must not go out to play
They went to the corn field and had such rare fun
Til along came a farmer with a gun… bang bang!
One bunny lay dead, with a whole from the gun
Right through his head
The other bunnies scampered right home to their nest
And now they all say, Mommy knows best.
Yep. Effing. Wrong.
Walking the house at 3 a.m. to calm a fussy baby… and purposefully avoiding the squeaky parts in our floors so as to not wake him up!
I realized I became my mother when I looked at my oldest child (who’s now 3) and said “Grace, I really do love you but I sure don’t like you right now.”
I realized I became my mother when I was baking up a storm for Christmas. She always does that and brings cookie plates to everyone. She loves that I love to bake as much as she does!
Tweet-mamalovesitall
http://twitter.com/mamalovesitall/status/10252988313
I realized I became my mother when I said “because I said so”! I saw this bouncer in the store and it is so cool. 5 weeks left of being pregnant and I remember my two kids wanting to be bounced. Very cool invention.
My “becoming my mother” moment … when I realized that I talk about the way things “should be done” without really listening to what the person I am talking to is saying back to me. I have to work on this!!
And I’m now a fan on FB of Bright Starts!
I knew I had become my mother when I found myself tucking my daughter into bed and saying the exact same things to her as my mom had said to me!
when i started telling people what to do instead of asking… oops!
simplymerry at gmail dot com
fan on facebook of Bright Starts
simplymerry at gmail dot com
Well, I have to say that I have done everything absolutely possible not to be like my mother or become her. Sorry, no stories or feelings of a time I felt that I became my mother. I hope I’m still eligible.
My Mom has a catch phrase famous in our family, “isn’t this great!”, said with no sarcasm & a huge smile in even the worst of situations. It is her way of forcing us to take control and find the silver lining. There have been big flashing signs that I’m becoming my Mother since I first found out I was pregnant. But it wasn’t until a week ago when my 7 week old was admitted to the hospital for a lung infection that I really saw her reflected in my actions. After settling into our hospital room, my husband and I put on a favorite movie, broke out the travel scrabble and pulled the crib up next to us. Despite the fear and sadness that resonated through every bone in my body I looked at my husband and said “isn’t this great? hes peacefully asleep and we’re getting some great family time free of glaring chores etc”. It wasn’t “great”, but we focused on the positive and got through that first, terrifying night a united team .
I love & respect my Mom more than words can express, and can only hope the “isn’t this great” reflex is a sign I’ve inherited her strength.
The cleanliness is when I realized I became my own mother. I am a ridiculous cleaner and my husband is always reminding me that my mother has influenced me. Oh, she has! I’m a little nutty.
I think it was when I had to give up heading out of town to visit a close friend for New Years Eve because her husband had just been diagnosed with strep – and even though he was on the antibiotics, I had a three month old and figured it wasn’t worth the risk…I’ve still never made up that trip, bummer!
Wow, there are so many, its kind of scary. I think the first was when I told my then 18 month old that she didn’t need to like or eat everything on her plate, she just had to try it. I wouldn’t make her eat everything. I am lucky that my now almost 3 year old is a good, healthy eater…thanks mom!
I became my mother when I told my son to pick up his room. As an adult I never clean my room or make my bed but I wanted my son to do it so I sounded just like my mom.
The moment I knew I had become my Mom was when I set the timer for my daughter to finish eating dinner because she was going so slow! I remember my Mom doing that every night for me…
I am a fan of bright starts (LOVE LOVE LOVE the dangly toys – my daughter has quite a few of these!)
Tweeted!
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook, and I can totally relate to the bouncing and not vibrating. My son is the exact same…what’s with the bouncy seats vibrating but not bouncing?
I knew I became my mother when I put a time limit on the daily tv watching (and when I finally broke down and purchased a minivan)!
I realized I became my own mom when I wipe DS’ nose with my fingers when I don’t have a kleenex handy.
i knew that i had become my mother when packing up our belongings to move to our new house. i saved EVERYTHING just like my mom did (and still does).
Jen @ MOmMy bRaIn sent me
i am a bright starts facebook fan (Jenny L.)
i tweeted – http://twitter.com/jlloyd9105/status/10273153319
[...] 2 – The Heir to Blair Blog Giveaway – ends [...]
I’m now a fan of Bright Starts on FB!
i became my own mother by my need to feed the world!
I became my own mother when I began having to tell my daughter that she was too close to the TV and that she needed to move back or it could hurt her eyes. (That’s something everyone has been told at one time or another, right?!)
jenna(at)momsbalancingact.com
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook – Jenna G.
jenna(at)momsbalancingact.com
My twitter name is @MomBalancingAct and I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/MomBalancingAct/status/10274616540
jenna(at)momsbalancingact.com
Hey Blair (and everyone else!)
I have a funny story about when I knew for sure that I was becoming my mother. I actually blogged about it a few weeks ago!
Click here to read my post:
http://gurskigossip.blogspot.com/2010/02/clothesline-reflex.html
I will tweet and Facebook when I get home from work and leave you separate comments. (darn internet watchdog at work!)
Will the link count as my entry?? My story is too long to share here!
(Hope I win!! My child is one of perpetual motion as well. Seriously. Stopping for ONE second is enough to send him into a complete RAGING scream. Not good for my already frazzled nerves thanks to PPA)
I became my mom the first time I made cupcakes for the Peanut’s birthday and sent them with her to school. My mom used to do this every year for our birthdays until we were in jr, high.
Hi, one of the biggest moments has been since I got married, and when my sister comes over to eat something or cook something, I tell her, ” If you are going to cook, you have to clean it up.” That’s pretty much what my mom told us too! Oh well. My sister reminds me way too often that I say things that sound like our mom.
-Hannah
I became a fan of yours on facebook.
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/MamaLungo
I became my own mother the first time my H did something “wrong” with the baby and I tried to take over. He called me out on it (as he should!) so now I have to be extra careful not to say anything. We all have our own ways of changing a diaper right?
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook!
Tweeted! http://twitter.com/myronickmusings/status/10276050802
I’m a FB fan!!!!
I became my mother the day I backed into a parked car, locked my keys in said car, forgot to bring DIAPERS while I was out with the babe, and went to work with black pants/blue socks. We’re definitely flighty and fly in the same type of flock.
I realized I had become my mother when I was watching my then-3-year-old nephew one day. He was trying to sneak a candy off the counter behind my back. Without turning around, I simply said, “Leave the candy alone. You can have a piece after dinner.” He just stared at me, and said, “How did you know?” I told him that I have eyes in the back of my head – totally my mother’s words. I never did tell him that I could see his reflection in the microwave door. He still thinks I’m magic.
I realized I had become my mama when I signed up for a karaoke web site.
I have made fun of my mother FOREVER for taking us as kids to the doctor constantly. Every time I faked sick, I was toted off to the pediatrician’s office. To this day, my teenage little sister gets a one-way ticket to the doc with something as minor as a headache. Ask me how many times Knox has been to the doctor already. Don’t actually, because I have become my mother. Oh well.
I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who does that. My poor husband!
http://measamommy.blogspot.com/2010/03/moment-i-became-my-mother.html
When I knew I had become my mother.
tweeted! @measamommy
I knew I was a mom when my LO started throwing up and I held him real close so he would throw up on my shirt instead of the carpet.
I became a fan of bright starts on facebook
I knew I became my mom when I hear her voice coming out of my mouth… I don’t always notice it when I’m just talking to DS, but when we’re around her and I hear HER speaking to him, I realize we sound exactly the same. Yikes!!
I became my mother when I totally gave up our gourmet meals and began making hamburger helper for dinner. I vowed I would never do it, and now my cabinets are STOCKED with that crap!
I realized I became my own mother when I wouldn’t stop staring at Emily. My mom always has this serious problem of staring at me & my sis but, now that I do it, I could care less.
I became a fan on FB – chisoxprincess14 at aol dot com
I knew I became my mother when I could clean up diaper blow outs with out missing a beat. I could never understand how my mom could do that without throwing up everywhere.
[...] 2 – The Heir to Blair Blog Giveaway – ends [...]
Wow to admit I am like my mother. This is brave. HA! I would have to say that the very first time was when my now 18 year old pretended she was sick almost every day of school (I did this when I was 5 as well) and my aunt wouldn’t send her. So around 8:30 what seemed like every morning I would get a call at work that she didn’t send her to school because she didn’t feel well. One day I just lost it. I was determined that she show up at school because I knew that there was nothing wrong with this child. I go to my aunts house to take her to school. My daughter was super chubby at the time and was almost as big as me. It dawned on me as I was trying to lift her limp body down the sidewalk and into the car that I am repeating the same steps my mother did with me. Scary but looking back I can’t help but laugh.
I just hope that I don’t have to do that with my now two year old. HA!
The moment I gave up my dishwasher, so we could live in a bigger place with a yard. I always swore I would never, ever, go without a dishwasher. My mom told me that I would, if it meant a better life for my child. She was right.
I’m a fan on facebook!
I knew I had become my mother when I started talking so fast that people have to tell me to slow down so they can understand me.
I knew i became my mom when I realized I dont really connect with my daughter. Im not able to actualy sit down and play with her, and the normaly happy mom and daughter stuff. but i spend more time telling her what to do, what not to do and diciplining her. Im not proud of it. as im a very lonely person because of the way my mom treated me.
mommy2skie at yahoo dot com
I am a Bright Starts FB fan!
fan brightstarts on facebook; mommy2skie
I realized I am becoming my mom when I was pregnant and basically would not buy baby clothes from anything but the clearance rack/mom2mom sale/garage sale. I never understood it when my mom wouldn’t by me the cool jeans that were $50 when I was growing up, but now I get it. Kids are expensive! but also oh so cute!
when I chewed my husband out for even THINKING about taking Jack out without a jacket when it was ONLY 61 degrees outside today!
I try really hard to not be like my mother. Long story.
BUT, I definitely channeled her last weekend when I made homemade egg noodles for a Polish dish called haluski. It was the the very first time I had ever made it without her. She passed away in 2008, and it felt so great to know I could keep her recipe alive.
Mom and I didn’t always get along, but I love her and miss her every day.
I tweeted! (@MamaPalmer)
I became a FB fan!
I’m like my mother in some ways, but a better mom to my girls than she was to us. I’m happy for that.
I’m wanting to purchase this bouncer, even before I knew about your contest. I’m a FB fan now!
I realized I had become my mom when I started calling my son by the same pet names my mom used on us when we were kids.
I’m a facebook fan.
Becoming my mom… I think it started while I was really pregnant, and started noticing things like I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head – something my mom was notorious for when I was a kid! That woman always, and I mean always, knew what I was up to… even now!
I dont think I have had the moment yet, but I know have a crazy understanding of how my mom must have felt trying to conceive my sister and I. It took her 5 years with me and 7 years with my sister. She had 13 miscarriages, and I never understood what that was like until I had mine last month. I also now understand how much having a child means to me.
I’m a facebook fan
I realized I was my mother when there was a slight bathtub incident with my daugther, who was 4 mos. at the time. It scared her when my sister accidentally spilled water all over her face. I immediately scooped her up in my arms and held her close. My sister called me overprotective and said I was being just like mom, but I didn’t care – all I wanted was to comfort my baby. In that moment, not only did I become like her, I understood all her “overprotective moments” and even began to respect and love that about her when it used to drive me nuts.
I tweeted. @jennleighmiller
I realized I had CROSSED over when I would taste test the baby food without a second thought. That stuff always used to gross me out.
the day i hurt myself at work ( i think i stubbed my toe or something) and instead of swearing under my breath (i work with children) i said out loud “crummy buttons” a phrase my mom always says when she is frustrated…and i have always made fun of her for saying because it sounds ridiculous!
The day I realized that I was turning into my mother was when I was pregnant. I cry at everything now. I’m such a sap. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only person in the world who cried during Transformers 2…3 times!
I became a fan of Bright Starts on facebook too.
I think the first time I really saw my mom’s influence on me was when I started using baby words like “do u need to go pee pee or poo?” Or calling the cat “kitty puss”.. just cute little made up names, nicknames, or simplified words. I used to hate that when I was a kid and swore I’d never do it… but now i think it’s cute. lol. what happened? lol
i am a fan of bright starts on facebook as roxanne debord
tweet
http://twitter.com/writeroxie/statuses/10305847067
@writeroxie is my twitter name
I think the first time I realized I was becoming my mom was when I started getting on my husband’s case about cleaning up his messes and helping out around the house — sounded like a total nag.
I’m a facebook fan of Bright Starts
my I’m a mom moment happened at safeway when my little one was about 3 months old. i ran to the store by myself to grab one or two things. all these men kept looking at my chest, at first i was like ok ya i get it i have big boobs(breastfeeding) but after the 3rd look from a stranger i was getting pissed. what the hell … well after getting home i realized i had spit up from my shoulder almost down to the top of my jeans.. i just started laughing knowing that i was officially a mom.
following bright stars on facebook.
I became a fan on FB!!
I realized that I am just like my mom when I had my beautiful daughter….and I love her just as much as my mom loves my sister and me! Oh yes, there are many times where I find myself acting just like my mom……but I see my sister doing more things like her, haha!
My children are all grown now,my moment was when I told them what my Mom told me,that I hoped one day they had kids just like them,the Mom curse! after it came out I couldnt believe I said it to him,then her,then her again,lol,three different times to my 3 kids at different stages of their teenage years,an you know so far its worked,lol.
fan of Bright Starts on Facebook
vlbelk(at)Hotmail.com
tweeted
http://twitter.com/vickiecouturier/status/10322926708
vlbelk(at)hotmail.com @vickiecouturier
I knew I had become my own mother when….
I was talking to Emmerson and my actual voice (accent and all) sounded exactly like my mother. I actually stopped talking for a moment so I could reflect on the oh my gosh you didn’t….
I think, I knew I’d become my mother the first time I had to turn around to my kids in the backseat and tell them “Do not touch each other, do not look at each other, do not breathe on each other” because they wouldn’t quit screaming at each other and then “tattleing” to me about it. I used to look at my mom like she was nuts when she would say that, now I get it!
I’m a brightstarts fan on FB.
facebook fan of Bright Starts
Tweeted.
Mommy2bugs
I became my mother years ago when I told DH (then bf) that if we were having pork chops for dinner we had to have sweet potatoes & cabbage. When he asked me why, I replied “because that’s how mom did it. They just go together.”
I became my mother when snotty noses, vomit, and drool were no longer disgusting and it was ok to use my hands to wipe any of it way.
I became a fan of brightstar on FB
I knew I had become my mother when I danced like a crazy person in the bathroom with Harrison in an effort to keep him happy so I could brush my teeth
My mom did this all through my childhood, of course I was mortified after I turned 12, but not I can appreciate it…
PS I tweeted– LizB214
I knew I had become my mother when I first started saying to my DH “You’d lose your head if it weren’t screwed on!” She always says that!
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/curlyq776/status/10334040700
I became my mother when I told my children to close the door because “we don’t live in a barn.”
Facebook Fan
I knew I became my own mother when I started freaking out when people don’t take their shoes off in the house… it used to bug me so much when she’d nag us to take off our shoes in the house when we were kids and NOW I’m the same way!
I knew I became my mother when I told my son at the dinner table to stop chewing his food with his mouth open. My mom used to tell me and my brother that all the time when we were growing up!
Facebook fan (Jackie Nguyen)
God help me if my momma reads this…stupid me introduced her to the world of Blair. I sure hope I win, cause then this will all be worth it and we will hopefully be laughing about it over dinner on Sunday evening!
I will start by saying that my mom snores while sleeping…and not softly I might add. I always thought that my dad was exaggerating about it until a recent stay at their house. My husband and I were sleeping soundly in the room right below theirs until about three in the morning. The convo went something like this: “what the hell IS that?!”…”do you think they turned a fan on…or left one of their cell phones on the floor on vibrate?” We then proceeded to tiptoe up the stairs following this “vibration” because we were THAT curious and were definitely not going back to sleep at that point. We stopped outside of my parents bedroom door and realized that it was my mom snoring…and I swear it was just short of shaking the entire house. I truly do not know how that sound was coming out of such a petite and adorable woman. We had to quietly run back downstairs because we were both dying trying to hold in hysteric laughter.
Fast forward a year. Many things change with your body during and after pregnancy…well, guess what? Apparently I inherited the snoring. I am so embarrassed to say this and I pray that it will go away (actually I was hoping it was just a pregnancy thing)…but I have actually woken myself up from snoring so loud and hard. Yep…this is the way that I have become my mom. My poor husband now has to wake me and make me move around during the night because it is THAT bad. Ugh. Just what you need after working so hard to put the little one down for the night…a momma that will wake the baby with earth shattering snores.
Oh…and a note to my mom…I am SO sorry and I love you bunches!
I am a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook.
I tweeted…@davis_a_s
I became my mother when I got my first vericose vein. Damn you, genetics! I also share her hulking man-hands.
Tweeted @brakspants!
When I started planning our meals for the week – I knew I was my mom.
FB fan
I realized that became my mother when I heard myself saying to my son, “If I count to 3 and you’re not over here…. One….. Two…… Two and half…..THREE”
I swore I would never say that to my kids. Oh well.
I tweeted! thgardengourmet
I became a fan on FB.
I have become my mother through a number of things, but the one thing that made me realize it:
When my nephew lived with me, he was going through the “Why” phase and I finally gave up trying to halt these questions with understanding and reasoning and used the once hated (but now TOTALLY makes sense) “Because I said so.”
It’s when I said… if you can’t share, then no one plays with it. What a typical mom response!
My mom passed at 3 so how about when I realized I was my own dad?
During the summer and the kids wanting to go swimming well they didnt wwant to eat their lunch or clean up their messes!
“You’ll do what i say or go to bed!”
I became my mom when I said to my son “Didn’t I give you ears? Are you listening to me?”…sigh
I knew I became my mother when I started acting like a back seat driver all the time
I am a fan of BS on fb
lol at fan of BS
I tweeted this. mrsbird1129
Okay so I’m going against the grain here. I have never had a “I am my own mother” moment because I don’t ever want to BE like my mother. I didn’t have a very good one. So, I hope and pray I NEVER have one of those moments!!!
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook (Natalie Green)
I knew I had become my own mother before my daughter was even born when I started researching cloth diapers and looking into joining a co-op. And now I’m considering home school (even though she’s only 14 months).
All things my mother did, and I hated being home schooled!
I’m a fan of Bright Starts on FB
I realized I became my own mother when I can’t wear a white shirt or pants without getting stains all over them. And it still doesn’t stop me from buying white!
Tweeted! (karmapearl on Twitter
) http://twitter.com/karmapearl/status/10403041975
I tweeted (@RiGatorMom)
http://twitter.com/RiGatorMom/status/10403108263
I tweeted the contest, rebekahthewife
When I say phrases EXACTLY like her.
Fan on facebook!
I tweeted, I’m @bellablu_e
I knew I became my own mother when I decided it was better to stay home on a friday night than go out.
jessalicious01 at yahoo dot com
tweeted it:
confscrapaholic
jessalicious01 at yahoo dot com
I realized I became my own mother… In college, a couple years after the “Freshman 25″, my friends and I decided to work out at the college Recreation Center (The Rec). We were going to try aerobics and decided Kick Boxing Class would be the best option. We got there late and the class was full so we squished into the corner next to the mirror… As I was punching and kicking up a sweat I saw my reflection and noticed my workout clothes looked like I was from the 80s! Huge t-shirt and leggins, I’m surprised I didn’t have a sweatband across my forehead… And my kicks, oh my kicks were beyond help in form!. I saw my mother in the mirror that day…
Oh easy – when I found myself hating a restaurant my inlaws dragged us to because its decorations “glorified drug culture”. My PARENTS-in-law loved it, but I was all prudish and self-righteous like Mom would have been. Sadness.
I realized I had become my mother when I started to nag my fiance whenever he’d put the dishes in the sink instead of the dishwasher… or when I would say about my son “Oh, you know he’s a (our last name) man!”
Fan on FB
I tweeted!
name is jessnchase
I realized I had become my mother when I started matching my bras, underwear and socks on my own. This is a trait of both my mother and grandmother and now me. Somewhere along the line I heard the rational that one should always match when going out in public, even if no one see it, in the event that there is ever an accident and they have to cut off your clothes
My son is only eleven weeks old, but his socks will match his underwear someday. I am my mother’s daughter, after all!
My younger brother is 21 and a Marine that can take care of himself. He just got back from a tour from Japan and is home visiting. The other night he spent the night and out for a while with friends.
My 4 month old woke up at 3 am for a feeding and my brother was not home yet. I was having all of these images of him being beat up and laying in the gutter. (we live in a pretty safe town) I could not get back to sleep until he came home at 4am. I now know what we put our mother through.
I’m a Facebook fan!!
mrs.gurski@gmail.com
Tweeted this! ashley_gurski
I follow you on Twitter also!
[...] 2 – The Heir to Blair Blog Giveaway – ends [...]
[...] 2 – The Heir to Blair Blog Giveaway – [...]