As you all know, I love to watch movies. Some of my favorites are ones that I can relate to. I think they should make more movies about being a mom. There are some great ones but I have a new one to throw in the mix. It’s called MOTHERHOOD. Raising kids is never easy. Eliza Welsh (Uma Thurman), a stay-at-home mom of two, finds this out first hand on a seemingly endless day when she must plan her daughter’s birthday party, deal with her scatterbrained husband (Anthony Edwards), saver her car from being towed, and write an essay for a parenting magazine before the approaching dead line. That’s motherhood.
Eliza Welch (Thurman) is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger with her own site, “The Bjorn Identity”. Putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. Eliza’s good-natured but absent-minded husband (Edwards) seems tuned out to his wife’s conflicts, not to mention basic domestic reality, while her best friend Sheila (Minnie Driver) understands this – and Eliza -- all too well.
I thought MOTHERHOOD was hilarious. I couldn’t stop laughing. I could totally relate to some of the things that Eliza goes through. I am sure most moms can relate to this movie and would highly enjoy it. It would be a great movie to watch with your other mom friends on a Girl’s Night Out. You could swap your own motherhood stories. I know I have some doozies.
I will share one of them with you guys. My cousin was visiting with her kids when Noah was about 4 months old and he had a dirty diaper. I went to go change it and I noticed that he wasn’t quite finished going to the bathroom so, I closed up his diaper and waited for him to finish. After I changed him, I came back out with Noah to spend some more time with my family. I was sitting there and I ran my finger through my hair, which is something I do often and noticed I had something in my hair, I thought it was spit up. I was wrong. I had Noah’s poop in my hair. My cousin’s kids thought it was hilarious. They even called their dad and told him about it. I’m telling you Motherhood is definitely not easy!
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Hi Sheila! Well I don't know if this story counts but here it goes. My mother had my sister when I was 13. So basically when she was able to walk I took her everywhere with me. One day we were out and a lady came up to us and said "You have a beatiful daughter". I go "Thanks, but she isn't my daughter she is my sister." Then the lady says "Well, your mother must have had you two far apart." Duh...I was 15 at the time. We went home and laughed and told my mother. :)
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I can't claim this as happening to ME, but it happened to a husband of a good friend of mine...and it's hilarious (I think anyway)!
ReplyDeleteHer son was going through a teething phase and was keeping them up all hours of the night--for about a week at the time. Her husband arose, groggy, rushing around for work. He accidentally grabbed the tube of diaper rash cream instead of toothpaste. It wasn't until mid-brush that he tasted something amiss and realized the error. UCK!
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can totally relatr to the movie with the overload of work- does the remember when moving to keep some of your stuff handy to change into count...cause i thought my one pair of jeans was enough for days of traveling and within hiours i was a poop and puke recepient with no extra pants handy
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When my daughter was an infant, my husband was in charge of watching her while I ran some errands. Imagine my shock when I returned to find them both sleeping on the couch and my daughter using my husband's nose as a pacifier. Needless to say, he had to walk around for several days with a hickey on his nose!
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This wasn't funny at the time, but my newborn son had a diaper blowout while we were stranded at Firestone waiting for our car to be worked on. I had to change his diaper and clothes in the yucky bathroom floor. I put like 20 paper towels on the floor because I naturally forgot the diaper changing mat in the car that was now suspended in the air. After cleaning him up, he also became hundry and we had our first nursing in public experience in front of several male car mechanics. I know look back at this and laugh & think I did a pretty good job that day;)
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I don't have a really specific one yet. The funniest thing that's happen is my daughter threw up all down the front of my shirt at the mall. Needless to say, I bought a new shirt.
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We were at a restaurant and the waitress was asking what we all wanted to drink. When it was my turn my daughter interrupted and told the waitress, "My mama only drinks at night." You should have seen the look on her face. I mostly drink at night (iced tea and juice) because all my kids are always snatching my drinks all day long. She didn't know that though LOL.
ReplyDeleteI know I have a ton of funny stories but the only one coming to mind is one of those situations where my husband hoisted my son up over his head and my son proceeded to spit up right in my husband's mouth. Gross but yet funny!
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I was in the middle of potty training when we went to the park and right in the middle of the playgroud my son starts taking down his pants because he had to go the bathroom.
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ReplyDeleteIt is always fun when you have to take a little one with you in the bathroom stall. But remember kids have no tact. At all. My daughter who was about 3 and she made a few comments about my BM. "Are you going poo poo?" "Are you done poo-pooing yet?" "It stinks bad!" etc. etc. Kids are too funny!
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