JFF: What Funny Sacrifices Do You Make for Your Kids?

i dont buy coconuts anymore. My girls dont like them(hate them actually) i love them but couldnt eat a whole one by myself. I just do without. Thats my funny one though, my not so funny things i gave up were......

my 6 pack
my spontanious sex
my glass coffee tables
my white carpet
my career
long hot baths
privacy on the potty
long phone conversations
perky breasts
my husbands hair :0)

Yep, she gets the last cookie, or the last of the ice cream or chocolate. Sometimes she still wants to sleep with me, but then ends up sprawling across the whole bed. I end up sleeping in her twin bed, but that's OK.

Listening to kiddie songs in the car. AGHHHHHH!!!! (twitchy eye, death grip on steering wheel)

Letting my youngest lick all of the cream from my double stuff oreo's :(

What did I sacrifice for my kids?
my figure
my brain
my sanity
my money
my time
my clean house
my time alone with my husband
what more can they get from me?
Im trying to think of some that are funny. Im sure there are some.

giving them the last cookie, or the last piece of chocolate :( even when i don't want to.

My brain has turned to oatmeal and my body still thinks it's pregnant - my daughter is almost 12. For real (not all that funny) - my thyroid doctor told me I have a kind of syndrome where after a pregnancy, your body always thinks it's pregnant. Fun, fun, fun. Oh - and I didn't sleep more than 4 hours in a row for my daughter's first 2 years of life. Swear.

I did once allow a goldfish in the house when my husband brought one home for my daughter. I have a phobia about fish jumping out of their tanks from a bad experience when I was little. I actually cried the day he brought it home. I made them get a tank with a locking cover and I never went near it. The things we do.

Does waking up in the middle of the night and having the theme song to Dora running through your head count? I swear I've lost a lot of useful information that was stored in my brain, only to be replaced with preschool rhymes and songs. But, it's well worth the trade off.

Great question and great responses. At first I was thinking, not too many and then I read the responses and went, "oh, yeah!"

The honey chex mix. She eats all the parts she likes, and I get the cereal that is left.

The kid shows and no mommy shows....even when they are in bed. Daddy gets the remote. I got to watch one show tonight because they all went to bed early. :)

Eating when everyone else eats and getting to eat all of my food. I get something out because I haven't eaten and now it is the prime food choice. Really?!?!

Keeping a dog that wouldn't have lived to this point had it not been for the 3 year old's love for her.

Using the restroom in private. I have one asking me if I'm peeing or pooping and the baby trying to climb up my legs.

Waking up on my own because I've had enough sleep. Oh, how I had no idea that would never happen again.

Oh how it is sooooooooo worth it! I love my babies more than the world itself. I'd give it all up for them.....and keep that damn dog.

I pick out the pretzels in my Chex Mix. He says circle and square for them, so I can't resist.

Listening to her Toddler tunes CD, aaaaahhhhhhh. It's some of the kid songs with young kids singing them. Or listening to fresh beat band "great day" song over and over and over and over (like abbie, twitching eye and death grip on the steering wheel)

She gets the last of everything even my food if she wants it

Watching her cartoons instead of hgtv

I gave her my pillow and got a new one because my pillow was perfect to her and she liked the red shiny pillowcase (I tried to put it on her pillow with no luck lol)

Going for walks around the neighborhood in the rain

playing on her playground in 90 degree heat because that part of the yard is shady and she doesn't flinch to heat like me

Lol Jill, I second the waking up on my own thing. That hasn't happened since she was born.

LoL--- I sacrifice EVERYTHING for my kids. I would give the shirt off my back if they needed it. But in terms of daily stuff : I give the first bites of things to them---they give me the half eaten m&m. Any food, drink, lotion etc. They get it first. Whatever they don't want, I will get. Also, I am the official wiper of noses, and my clothes get the sand, dirt, blood or gross stuff on them when my kiddos fall down or shed a tear.

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I cant think of anything specific off the top of my head but I tend to think that I an a nurturer and always want to care for ppl, especially my daughter and my husband. So I find I spend most of my day catering to my 18 month old doing silly things for her like you were doing for your son. But I love to make her happy and spoil her

It has been almost 30 years since I started giving up for children. I agree with all these moms who said the things you give up as your children are toddlers, then they start school and get involved in everything. At that time I gave up my weekends for sitting through sport events, My summers for Scout camps and Baseball, my ideal belief that my kids are perfect as I went to school for parent teacher meetings, being "smart", being "fashionable", my car as they became old enough to drive, my sanity as I spent hours of sleepless night when they were out later then they were suppose to be, my money as everything they do as teens needs a lot of money. They then become adults and parents themselves and I gave up my livingroom and extra bedroom when they became Toys R Us for the grandkids, more money to spoil the gandkids and being young as my 4 year old granddaughter lovingly told me one day "Grandma, on the outside you may be old but on the inside... well you're old there too"

Mostly I gave up my heart to those perfect wonderful children and grandchildren.

I gained so much more... love, experience in looking at the world from a childs eye, laughs.. lots and lots of laughs, Loads of memories that will always make my heart smile when I think of them. Being the person that a grandchild thinks is the wisest and most fun in the whole world. Hugs, sloppy kisses, finger prints on the windows and walls, the sparkles in the eyes when they come to visit, hearing "Grandma, Grandma, it's raining! It's Raining!" When a 1 year old experinces her first snow storm. Laughes, so many laughs...

These are all so amusing and so true.

While I cannot improve on this list already, I salute each and every one of the parents out there who wrote in their submissions.

Cheers,

Elizabth

Oh too many things I think...only one coming to mind right now...cut up watermelon for them.
I hate it. The smell, the texture. Gag.
But they love it.

I'm sure-as I will be in bed in a few minutes-I will think of some better ones. ;)