Always trying to top me, aren't you? When you are so clueless that you think your kid's red eyes are from some exotic allergy and it never even occurs to you that she might be crying a lot because of separation anxiety at a new preschool, COME SEE ME, POSER!!
Jane | Homepage | 02.24.05 - 2:24 pm | #

Boy, have I been there. Great post!
Laura | Homepage | 02.24.05 - 5:08 pm | #

*smile*
What a heart-warming post. I laughed and smiled and I could feel your love bursting between the lines. Well done you Mean and Horrible Mom!
Melody | Homepage | 02.25.05 - 6:21 am | #

*SIGH* It sure is tough sometimes. Great story and lesson.
Jennifer | Homepage | 02.25.05 - 1:51 pm | #

Jane, you make me laugh.

Does keeping four cats in a house for a year and a half while your child suffers through *24* ear infections, including a failed tube surgery and innumerable doses of antibiotics count? (She had her last ear infection right after we finally, on doctor-related threat of being beaten half to death, gave the kitties away.)
Tiny Coconut | Homepage | 02.25.05 - 2:56 pm | #

I read, and then re-read this post. At first I thougth, wow, to put her son through that! Then I read it again, and son of a gun if I hadn't done similar things to my daughter, all in the name of love, all in the name of making her an able person and a good woman. You keep on being a mean and horrible mom, you're doing a great job in my book!!!
Nina | Homepage | 02.27.05 - 12:23 am | #