Not Me Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday!

This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I'm going to begin today's confession with a humorous, and slightly "adult" twist...

If you read my previous post you know we are now the proud owners of three (soon to be 3,000) red-eyed tree frogs! Yes, you have inferred correctly....it was certainly Not our brand new pets that we caught last night, "in the act" of creating new little tree frogs! Well, at least now we know that Jack/Walker/Cooper needs a new name, because he is in fact -- a girl!! (And we thought we had a G-rated household!)

It is not me who is working frantically this week to get ready for my parents and my "adopted" aunt and uncle (aka my parents' best friends) to visit us. I know it is supposed to be relaxing to have your parents visit, and it will be, once they are here - but, they only come a few times per year and I really don't want them to see that it is not me who takes my kids to the beach and then allows them to get into the car with half the beach still attached to their bodies and then leaves it in the backseat, so that every person who gets in the car after them has to sit on salty, itchy, beach sand!

It is also not me who rarely makes my kids clean their room, so when I went in to get the sheets off of my ten year old daughter's bed, I realized that every article of her clothing is kept, not in the drawers or closet, oh no, in the floor! And I certainly would NOT want my parents to know that -- after all, they raised me better!

While I am confessing, I will tell you that it is not me who decided today to really get in there and clean out my six year old's room - you know, in preparation for the visit and all - and it certainly can not be true that inside the dress up trunk I found more sucker wrappers than I have allowed my son to eat this year, plus all sorts of other food stuff and trash that certainly belonged *gasp* in a trash can, and not a dress up trunk!!

Finally, it is not this mama who must need a serious hormone test because it seems lately that about, um, once a month or so, I most definitely do not find myself snapping at my children for the smallest offense and moping around the house, wishing that someone would come along and do my chores for me so that I can move along to bigger and more exciting endeavors (like playing at the beach or reading a book), and of course, it was certainly not me who this month at that "time" complained to my hard working husband that I simply could not keep up with all the mundane tasks like laundry and dishes. After all, it would certainly not be me wasting time on such activities as blogging and facebooking rather than the aforementioned chores -- no way, not me!!

Wow - that is some cheap therapy!! Thanks McMama!