Mom’s Lib
Today is a new holiday. I just made it up. It’s called “Junk Food Day” and it’s a rather innovative holiday in that you can make it be ANY day you want. It doesn’t involve gifts or dumb, overpriced cards (unless you want it to) and you can even have it more than once a year if you are so inclined.
The deal is that you can feed your kids junk ALL DAY LONG, assuming you don’t already do that, and not feel even remotely guilty about it. I know! It’s totally brilliant! Of course the kids love it and I have rationalized that one day of crap isn’t going to kill them. I just have to be sure to brush the hell out of their teeth tonight.
Today’s menu has included cereal bars, lots of chocolate cookies, fudge bars, Froot Loops and chicken quesadillas from Taco Hell. Mmmmm…
Now before you send me e-hatemail telling me what a bad parent I am, remember that I’m used to only having one at home all the time. With Christmas vacation here, I’m now bombarded with requests for things ALL DAY LONG from TWO of them. And to make life even harder, one is sick and won’t eat anything except the tastiest of foods, which is, simply put…JUNK. Why fight it? It’s bad enough I’m a butt and nose wiping machine today…
I really do need to get to the store for some more nutritious foods but until then, I say bring on the junk, beyotches! Liberation is mine!
Did I mention it’s guilt-free?
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If you’re feeling like you need just one more bite of IzzyMom, you can always go read my guest post over at MamaPop!
Okay then. Aliens have landed and switched you out for a pod person. I’m down with that. Just don’t do any weird experiments on me and Girlie next time we’re over for a playdate.
You go girl! I’m so totally with you on this one. We do these kinds of days occasionally, especially when I’m ill or having one of those bad days that come with my disease.
On normal days, I’m sick of my kids asking me for something to eat every 30 minutes, but some days you just gotta give in in order to preserve what sanity remains.
Guilt free, baby, guilt free.
Hmmm. But, how can I make this work for me? Maaaaybe if I make this the one day we DON’T eat junk. ;)
We did that the other day and had ice cream and french fries for dinner! We aren’t bad moms, we are FUN moms!
Sign me up for that holiday. Though, I think we’ve been celebrating it all year long.
Lisa
I stopped by to see if you needed more absolution from your guilt and read that you are taking matters into your own hands and self-absolving. Good for you! Of course I hope you include a martini or two for yourself because that is what MOM sometimes means. My Own Martini. It can also be My Own Margarita, My Own Migraine, and ultimately it means My Own Marvelous Mothering!
Now if I could just stop eating all of these chocolate coins we have lying around the house from the gambling my kids have been doing all week long….
What an awesome idea Izzy! My Auntie Shelley has been telling me the older she gets the less she worries what other people might think. I have the internet at home again (dial up this time) and I am excited to be among fellow bloggers again.
Regarding nutrition - I have started taking a product called Herbalife. 2 shakes a day and one healthy meal. So I guess I may get a little or a lot healthier because I used to drink only coffee all day, snack here and there, and then maybe have dinner. I am not taking it to lose weight or anything, just to get the nutrition I am lacking.
It is good to read your blog again! I have missed you. And I have created yet another blog and have a new email address which you should be able to see from your dashboard. I am just going to stick with blogger because I can’t afford to host my own blog again.
Anyways, happy holidays!
I am totally up for that, BUT only if I can eat the junk food all day, too. I believe in equality…
Oh boy, I feel my waist expanding just thinking about it.
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes! Do you get junk food too? Hopefully!
Viva Les Doritos!
When I was a kid we had junk food. It was called “the standard american diet.” We ate hamburgers, fries, cokes and doritos with abandon. And we survived…
Blogger whaaaa? All of blogger? No word verification? But the spam, oh, the awful porn spam…
Oooh, it was junkfood day here, too! Rice Krispie squares and chocolate covered pretzels and waffles. The only decent thing she had to eat all day was some applesauce.
Junkie Food Day is an awesome idea! My kids would love it…I can’t say that I’d be disappointed if I could eat junk food for an entire day. Happy Holidays Izzy!
I don’t have a designated holiday for this because my ladies are still too little to understand what junk food is, but I let them eat anything they want on occassion. It has been these occassions that make my two year old tell me that she needs potato chips and cheese doodles because they’re healthy for her!
That is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I can tell right now I will be celebrating Junk Food Day frequently.
What if I don’t have kids? Can I feed ME junkfood all day long? I did allot myself one hefty chocolate milkshake this evening, if that counts, and I even have the stomach ache to prove it. If that isn’t bringing back memories of my childhood, then, well, I don’t know that is. ; )
Can we give the kids crack, too? There have been a number of requests.
It seems to keep them alert.
So there!
I always feel SF junk when she’s sick. At least she’s eating!
Mmmm, tasty, I want a junk food day!!!
You forgot fruit roll ups. Or maybe those don’t count because they have fruit in them?
We celebrate Junk TV Day rather often. Like weekly. I’m afraid of what would happen if I instituted Junk Food Day.
hey sounds good to me- I have a confession- I have been known to feed my kids peanut butter and jelly for dinner- I know call the childrens services- but since it it a new holiday I am soo in on it- lol
I really wish I would have read this before I went out and bought all of those bananas.
NO NO NO! You never want them alert! Tired is always the better choice.
Good for you! And this really should be a weekly event!
Mmmm, I’m starting the celebrations by stuffing chocolate in my mouth and chasing it with some chips. Screw the kids, I want the good stuff!
Wait, can this only be one day a year? Because that would be a bummer.
To heck with the kids, I’m making it junk food for mom day! JFMD. Junk Food for Mom Day! It has a ring to it, don’t you think?! ;)
Wait … who cares about feeding the kids junk, all I want to know is do I get to eat it, too? If not … pfft … I’m out.
I was so in your shoes last week. Don’t feel guilty one bit and don’t take any flak for it either.
That’s weird, today (the 20th) is “chicken in a bucket day”. That one has been around since 1814 - in case you didn’t know.
We’re celebrating tomorrow!
I hope this becomes an “official” holiday!
yeah, I pretty much live this holiday on a daily basis…. my daughter (2) will say “I know mommy, I gonna turn into a chocolate milk sikky cup!”
I could get behind this holiday. As long as I get to partake as well.
Um … BRILLIANT … I love every thing about this. I am all overy it.
I just snuck a Christmas cookie with my breakfast coffee. No guilt here!