…Then he will demand more and more and more blackberries and refuse to eat the cinnamon toast you so carefully crafted for him.
If you carefully craft cinnamon toast for your toddler, then you will have to listen to Shel scream for several minutes while you are buttering the bread.
If you listen to Shel scream for several minutes, then you will have to take the final 800 mg prescription strength ibuprofen left over from giving birth.
If you take the 800 mg prescription strength ibuprofen, then you should remember to take your antibiotic for your mastitis, prenatal vitamin, and, er, uh, stool softeners.
If you should remember to take all your pills like a dope fiend, then you should have remembered to do laundry the day before so that you have non-maternity jeans to wear to the playdate where you’ll be meeting Megan for the first time.
If you are going to a playdate that starts at 9:30 and should leave by 8:45 to get there in time, then you will probably leave at 9:30 and arrive 45 minutes late now that you have two kids to somehow get ready in the morning.
If you have two kids to somehow get ready to leave the house, then there will be no way for you to get ready.
If you have no time to get ready, then you’ll realize that you have no time to make yourself breakfast so instead you have to eat the remnants of the carefully crafted cinnamon toast you made for your blackberry loving toddler.
(This post was inspired by If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff)
I think you look fantabulous! I’ve missed seeing you so you could have shown up in your jammies and I wouldn’t have cared.
How come this sounds a lot like my life, and I last gave birth 7 months ago?
Awesome post! And oh so true. Life with 2 is so different than life with 1.
p.s. We love If You Give A Mouse A Cookie here!
Heehee….no, I’m not laughing at you…I’m laughing with you! I have a 1 year old and a two year old, and I still can’t get them and myself ready for anything!
Hope you had fun at your playdate!
Amen.
Oh imagining your toddler as that picky mouse is too funny.
The good thing about cool moms is that they should completely understand…
very good!
and one of my favorite books too!
Too funny!
Does it make me a yuppie mom if I thought by the title you were referring to an electronic device rather than a fruit, LOL?
How clever you are (and funny too).
That is one of our faves as is If you give a Moose a Muffin and If you give a Pig a Pancake (well we liked that one until it became a casuality in the ripping every page out of books instead of napping phase)
perhaps if you start getting up at 5am?? oh, you’re probably already doing that….maybe 4am???
I’m 10 months into this two kids thing and I was still an hour late to the playdate today. If only I still had some of my Rx pain killers…
Non-maternity jeans. I still throw those on in a pinch. Did I mention I am 10 months out from giving birth? If only I still had some of my Rx pain killers…
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is one of our favorite books. We read it all the time. I bought it specifically because the mouse was going to be making an appearance at our local Barnes & Noble. We read it over and over so we’d be ready. Then I forgot to take us to see the mouse. If only I still had some of my Rx pain killers…
Playgroupie, you have a new convert to playgroups today. It was a joy to meet you and I hope to be invited over again soon! Ooh, and Peanut & Shel are wonderful little mice, too!
Love the post. Wait til their older and theres no remenants of breakfast lunch or dinner and they want more to eat and theres barely enough left for you to eat. Yeah Im still getting the hang of cooking for 4 hungry boys (husband included)
Is it awful that the thing that stood out most to me in this post was that you’re already wanting to wear non-maternity jeans (when they’re clean
I just fit into some non-maternity jeans last week and Kiernan is 8.5 months old 
Fun post. I do all of these kinds of things 8.5 months in with only one, imagine how it’ll go once I have two. hehe.
I still have some of my RX ibuprofen stashed and would happily share some if you were closer.
I heart Laura Numeroff’s If you give a…series.
Cute post.
Very cute! And by my estimation, it’ll be that way for awhile, seeing how Marin is 8 months and this post could’ve described my morning…
Hi Jennifer!
I am so impressed that you got out of the house- I still can’t make it some days… with one who almost 2…
Ahh yes. Babies and toddlers! I remember reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, when my older daughter was about 2, and I could so relate to jumping from one thing to the next, because that was my life! Alas, they grow up and that 2 yo graduates from high school on Sunday and I don’t know where the time went! Was she really 2 years old once?
LOL love the “give a mouse a cookie” theme. And also funny- when I saw “if you give my toddler a Blackberry” I was thinking blackberry as in the phone/email/wireless device. That’d be a whole other story, wouldn’t it?!
That is one of our favorite books! This time passes so quickly (I cried throughout the first few months with #2, and I barely remember those hazy, sleep-deprived, days of insanity). Enjoy that sweet baby smell, and the cozy cuddles. In the blink of an eye, she’ll be on top of the refrigerator…oh, wait–maybe that’s just my second baby. I finally did the ten things that make me happy meme…thanks for tagging me!
I love this! I’ve always wanted to write a post like this because I love those books and how they capture a mom’s day. Nice job!
first….this is my first time to visit via tulipmom’s blog.
next…love the “if you give a mouse” theme going on.
With two under four that are only 15 months apart, I can totally relate! I am sure I will be back.
This was great! Although at first I thought you meant “blackberry” as in the PDA!
i think all playdates with newly minted moms-of-a-different-number-of-
children-than-they-were-previously-used
-to-wrangling should be scheduled at the house of those moms in question. preferably in a yard, where no one can see the inside of the house.
at least, that’s my plan if i ever have another. cause it took me three months to get good at leaving the house with just one!
you made me giggle.
perfect!!
u’re very talented.
Good job! I love it!!
Love this post! I can totally relate to it.
Your posts always make me laugh!
Hee! Not only did a once do a post inspired by that book, I just happened to link to it (my own old post) today!
All lateness is TOTALLY forgiven when you are dealing with multiple small children.
How sad am I. I read “give your toddler a Blackberry” and I immediately pictured the PDA/phone that is superglued to my husband’s hand and that my young son covets. oh, to live in simpler times!
Perfectly describes life with two kids…
Excellent!
Very funny and clever. Great book and great post!
I, too, thought it was going to be about a Blackberry with a capital B, which I wouldn’t have been able to relate to much because that would mean knowing how to USE a Blackberry and I couldn’t even figure out my cell phone. But I can do a perfect cartwheel.
Add two more kids into the mix and you understand my joys and tears.
i love you!!!!!!
If you have no time to get ready, then you’ll realize that you have no time to make yourself breakfast so instead you have to eat the remnants of the carefully crafted cinnamon toast you made for your blackberry loving toddler.
i have ONE kid and i struggle everyday. everyday! thank you for reminding me that it’s OK!
I have read so many of those darn “If you give a…” books that I can practically recite each one of them. This is my favorite!! Thanks so much! You are a gem!