Meredith Ethington

As if FB statuses weren’t cringey enough 14 years ago, this memory made me laugh this morning. When you’re a new mom you have such high aspirations and dreams. Making my own baby food was one of mine. It lasted maybe a week. Also this is in no way knocking anyone that makes their own baby food….it’s just SO not ME. 🤣 What was an unrealistic expectation you put on yourself? ⬇️⬇️

The Taylor Swift jeans are finished. My daughter is so excited to wear to the concert in Denver on Saturday! @taylornation

Remember the hot house when you were a kid and they never ran the a/c? I want to be the cool house. I want kids to come over in the summer and be like - can I have a blanket.

Lemonade stands and slip in slides. That's what parents' summer nightmares are made of.

This is what it means to be a parent & love your kids. My 17yo daughter is a crazy swiftie going to see Taylor Swift this weekend. She wanted this outfit for the concert. I’ve spent hours trying to find a sweater vest to match & now I’m hand drawing these crazy jeans. So much of our work as parents goes unnoticed. But I’m sure you all doing similar things for your kids. It’s in the little things like this where we pour our heart and soul into something that our kids love because we love them. 🍄

Being part of a family means saying, "I love you, but I don't want you chewing next to me."

I used to think nails on a chalkboard were the worst sound before I had three kids. 17 years in I'm now triggered by things like: Nerf Rival Guns. You Tuber's Voices. The word Mom. Someone grabbing another cup from the kitchen. Children literally laughing and having fun.

My kids just informed me the following things are “embarrassing.” Setting up your own voicemail. Having a voicemail that is set up. Leaving someone a voicemail.

I’m taking advantage of the purity of Threads while it lasts with a shameless plug for my new book, The Mother Load: Surviving the Daily Grind Without Losing Your Ever Loving Mind https://a.co/d/e1KfgK5 It’s on audible or better yet buy a copy! It’s all about Motherhood and Mental Health. Toxic positivity, the mental load, mental illness….it’s all there.

Parenting is humbling. One minute your kids are babies begging to be soothed by you with one more story or one more song. Then you blink & their new night time routine is “I knoooooooow” & “you don’t need you to explain everything in extreme detail, Mom” when you try to speak.

I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was a baller I wish I had a kid that would listen when I called her. - if moms wrote rap music

Excited to recycle my old tweets into this new threads app in the hopes that someone might find me mildly entertaining over here too.