Mom of the Year

My sister had a little get together at her house. We made around 75 things of jello shots, in a wide range of flavors. Her friend Michelle came over with her four year old son.

I'm, of course, not one to judge someone's parenting skills. But even after a year of handling Ariana I think I have somewhat of a good idea of what a good kid is and what a good kid isn't... This kid was the average size for a four year old, but he talked like he was maybe two. No speech impediment, just laziness. Slurred his words together, didn't pronounce anything clearly or correctly. It was annoying. This kid is four, he should be able to read with a little bit of pushing.

I won't even go into the naughty words he said. I'd heard Ariana say shit once or twice, usually for comedic affect, and it wasn't something to get in a tiff over. But this kid was ripping it, while flipping the finger! Holy crap! His mom didn't do anything except say a passing, "Stop" or "Don't".

He was also very bad at obeying. Continually defying his mom. I understand that kids push boundaries, but that's also where parents are meant to enact punishment for breaking those boundaries, which Michelle didn't do.

Had I been his mom I would've already spanked him and set him in a corner.

Then again, had I been his mom, I probably wouldn't have gone to a friend's house to drink with my kid in tow, even if I couldn't find a sitter. Patrick had given up nights out for Ariana, which is always admirable because it's better than dragging your kid into those kinds of situations. My mom did that to me a few times, taking me with her to go see her alcoholic friends. Of course I don't know if this had a good or bad affect on me, or if it even made a difference, but I didn't like being in those situations regardless.

I think Michelle is a nice person but she kind of gets on my nerves because it's all about her. She brought attention to her ring tone and of course got ragged on about it (because isn't that the point, to give attention to something that's being flashed?), then started making excuses like, "It's my ex-boyfriend's phone." WTF are you doing with your ex-boyfriends phone? And even then, you can still change the ring tone. It isn't hard!

Another thing she does is act like she could have any guy she wants. When she's not particularly attractive, has a kid with no dad, and can't have a stable relationship outside of the consistent one night stand. I'll leave the rest up to you.

She also needs everyone to know that she's bisexual. I'm pretty sure if I made a move on her she wouldn't be interested, despite me being an attractive girl she doesn't really know. More or less, it's all about her, which I'm not really into when making friends. If you're in a conversation for more than 20 minutes and the person can't utter a sentence without them as the subject, they're probably going to end up not being your friend in the near future.

Then again I am also extremely judgmental. It's one of my many flaws :D. But these observations have been made on several occasions, so... right. Despite how negatively I'm portraying her here, she has always been pretty nice if self absorbed. Though more of the shy nice and not the out-of-her-way-to-be-nice nice.

If you get the difference. Right.