It's really hard to look cool, when you're a parent...

[LaraMN]

:rofl:

[seemunkee]

1. You mean those aren't all sex toys?

[LaraMN]

3. Bwahaha!

Nope! Just toddler paraphernalia, which he have in great excess.

:D

[miss_american_pie]

2. Oh come on

You aren't covered in nearly enough body fluids to properly demonstrate parent uncoolness. :hi:

[LaraMN]

5. Well, I don't really want to look, but

I'm pretty sure based on the sounds involved that Jack just rubbed snot in the back of my hair.

[miss_american_pie]

Ewwww

I was so unbelievably happy when my older kid learned how to blow his own nose.

[LaraMN]

8. Lol! The things we take joy in, huh?

I just had a wiffle ball shoved down the back of my jeans. Attention-seeking behavior, anyone?:P

[anarch]

4. at least that's cooler than walking around with all that stuff

and not being a parent. That would be a little bit...odd.

[LaraMN]

22. Lol!

Good point.

:rofl:

[pdx_prog]

6. Nah, I think you would look cool regardless...

What IS that in your mouth though?

:hi:

[LaraMN]

7. A wooden, segmented snake.

We have three of them. Because everyone needs three wooden snakes.

:eyes:

[pdx_prog]

10. There HAS to be a comeback for that....

Damned if I can think of one though...lol

:yoiks:

[ThomCat]

9. Nah. You look cool regardless.

Besides, being a good parent is very cool!

[LaraMN]

21. Awww!

You're right, being a good parent IS cool. At least in my mind!

[matcom]

11. i have this sexual thing for women

with wooden snakes in their teeth :D

[LaraMN]

20. Well, now we know what to get Mrs. Matcom for Christmas.

Glitter and a wooden snake.
:D

[matcom]

23. if you tell me you ALSO have Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots...

i'll need to excuse myself for 9-12 minutes :D

[LaraMN]

28. They're in the den closet.

But I think they've been rock'd and sock'd into an unusable state.

:rofl:

[matcom]

32. i'll be in there if you need me

:bounce:

[Bucky]

52. Wooden snake? Shit, I thought that was a hose to a hookah pipe.

And you can't get any cooler than that

[BarenakedLady]

12. I know, tell me about it.

Like rocking out to a tune in your minivan and then noticing a pack of teenagers in the next car laughing at you. :blush: while your kids are in the back yelling "Mooooommmmmmm stop. You are soooo embarrassing!"

[LaraMN]

19. Bwahaha!

My Mom went through a phase where she was obsessed with bagpipe music. Naturally, I was in junior high, and it was like a secret horror of mine that my friends would find out!

[BarenakedLady]

24. But I'm a coooool mom

Damn it! I was rockin' to Incubus for crying out loud. It's not like I was singing a Tiffany song or anything. My oldest keeps saying "Mom, you look like a teenager." and she doesn't say it in a way that sounds at all complementary. :rofl:

[LaraMN]

26. My oldest is eight, so he's not QUITE as mortified by me yet.

But I am sure he will be, in a few more years!

[BarenakedLady]

27. Mine is 9

Get ready for it. :rofl:

[LaraMN]

29. Oh shit.

So I've got four months left...

:scared: :rofl:

[Divameow77]

41. 9 year old here too

and its already started. Of course I take the opportunity to embarrass him when I can :evilgrin:

[tigereye]

39. my son actually yells at me

mom, your music is too loud!

(old and prematurely deaf old punk parent here!)

[Bassic]

13. Yeah, but you manage it a lot better that I do

Unless I'm doing this:



Then I can hold my own a bit :D

[LaraMN]

16. Yes! Outside our natural habitat, we can fake it.

Mostly. Until we reach into our pocket to pull out our cell phone and instead retrieve a pacifier and a dirty baby sock.


:D

[Bassic]

18. That's actually happened to me once

:D

It was a pacifier :D

[billyskank]

14. Meh. Looking cool is overrated. I'm into dorks.

:hi:

[LaraMN]

15. Well, then you'd just looove me!

I managed, about ten minutes ago, to sustain a bleeding wound from the prickly-side of a piece of velcro.

:eyes: :rofl:

[billyskank]

17. What can I say?

:yourock:

[crim son]

25. Maybe not cool in that picture, but definitely beautiful

and dignified. Okay, maybe not dignified either... you get my point. :7

[LaraMN]

30. Lol!

I'll take that for the lovely, if disjointed, compliment that it appears to be! Thanks!

:thumbsup: :D

[RetroLounge]

31. Well, it is pretty impressive actually

that you can carry all that stuff and still have a hookah in your mouth...

That's pretty damn cool if you ask me!

RL

[LaraMN]

35. It's called "multi-tasking."

Which is a necessary aptitude for any parent, as I'm sure you well know!
:7

[tigereye]

40. it does look like a hookah, doesn't it!

he he

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. By the way...

Something's sticking out of your top. Looks like a bra tag or something.

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

34. I think it's a piece of my hair that's wedged in there.

But you can think whatever you want...:P

[LaraMN]

36. I was wrong- it's the pendant on my necklace.

I had to go look at the bigger pic to tell. It was bugging me.
:crazy:

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Square hair?

Rare.

Especially there.




Cue George Carlin...

[LaraMN]

45. I revised my explanation, but just for you- here's what it is:

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[Oeditpus Rex]

46. ...

I'm sorry. Were you saying something?

[tigereye]

38. yeah

I always felt that when I would be dressed in my indie rock chick gear, big boots and Ramones t-shirt and wiping the kid's nose....


that's a great picture!

[S n o w b a l l]

42. I'm not a parent.....

...but, sometimes I wish I was so I'd have an excuse! :D

[Divameow77]

43. My son has that same claw toy

your holding :-)

[LaraMN]

44. JackMN uses it to beat people.

:eyes:

[Divameow77]

51. Yup

pretty much here too

[LynneSin]

47. What is that - a Hookah you're sucking on?

:shrug:

[LaraMN]

48. No. It's a wooden, segmented snake!

Damn it!


:rofl:

[Shine]

49. I can sooooo relate.

for my 13 yr old son, there's no way I can either look cool or BE cool. It's just not happenin', at least in his eyes.... :eyes:

Great pix, btw! Good multi-tasking. :D

[swimboy]

50. It's already apparent you're way cool.

:loveya: