Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Troll Mom

Big Kid hates to hear me sing or see me dance. He cringes and begs me not to and any time I turn up the radio in the car, he mentions that he hopes I don't get this song stuck in my head.  He did a "Time" Mother of the Year parody magazine at school for my Mother's Day gift and in the blank for "Favorite song to hear your mom sing" he replied "????????????????????????". To be fair, I am terrible at singing and dancing.

But it's like I'm forbidden to show any signs of joy or fun in my own home so I often disregard his disgust and sing and dance anyway.

The other day I was dancing in the kitchen and he asked, "Could you not dance?"

"No! You can't stop me from dancing! I'll dance if I want to."

"MO-OM! Grrrrrrrrr. Mom. STOP IT! Please quit."

"I'll never stop. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to start a website called www.dancingmoms.com. It will be moms dancing--oh! Moms could upload videos of themselves dancing. We could show all of your school friends so they will tell their moms!"

"MOM! That. Is. Not. Funny. You're joking. I...I wouldn't allow it...."

"You can't stop moms from dancing and everyone loves dancing moms. It will be fun, Big Kid!"

"Okay. All right. Look, mom. There's nothing wrong with moms dancing but there's no reason to make a website about that. I'm not tellin' you 'cuz I don't like your dancing, I'm just saying it's definitely not a good idea for a website. It's just not that good of a idea."

"I bet everyone told Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook was a dumb idea! Dancingmoms.com will be the next Facebook!"

"Oh my--mom, it's nothing like Facebook. You're not Mark Zuckerburger. Who wants to see moms dancing? You won't do it. You probably can't even get dancingmoms.com."

BUT GUESS WHAT?

He was initially horrified...but then slightly amused.

(I think he's humoring me so I'll stop.)

14 comments:

Bren said...

That is too funny! If I weren't feeling so absolutely horrible right now I might have to record myself dancing! Maggie ALWAYS tells me to stop singing - like I'm hurting her ears or something!

LindaB said...

Hilarious!! I love it. My kids don't let me have any fun either. Not even just no fun, but no comfort - when my 4 1/2 yr old was a toddler, he HATED when I wore socks or slippers or had a blanket on. wtf is that about??? I laid down the law on that one though. I live in Jersey and our winters suck
Great post...

Sasha said...

Just read this out loud to Mr Sasha! Love it! I volunteered to do a video to submit, but Mr Sasha is not so sure that is a good idea.

Mom said...

that's it! the next time he comes over I am going to make him watch all the home movies of you at your numerous recitals tapping, clogging and doing jazz and ballet. I know you can dance, I paid for it!

Jennifer said...

One day our kids will learn not to do this to us. Never challenge the momma.

jennyandcompany said...

oh that is fabulous

The Lovely One said...

You are brilliant! I will dance for you!

The Six Campbells said...

This makes me think of the mom dancing while Loded Diper performed on Diary of a Wimpy Kid. That dancing mom was the star of the show. LOL

Cindy said...

No way!!! You continue to be all kinds of awesome!

xo

Alissa said...

LOVE IT! My kids are giant buzz kills too.

asnell said...

This is why your blog is the first thing I check EVERY DAY! Thank you for giving us moms one more tool in the survival of our children. A video is forthcoming....

Lin said...

Bwahaha...you showed him.

Renee said...

YEAH! Love this!!

Claire said...

You need to show him the clip of the 68 year old woman dancing to Michael Jackson on China's Got Talent! That will maybe reinforce the idea that moms and Grandmas dance!