Kiss Your Mama With That Mouth?

aka alright already Bad Mommy, check your language at the door.... I am almost too embarrassed to post this one.

The other day in the middle of dinner I asked Patrick to do something and he looked me dead in the eye and said, "Whatever." The "whatever" was accompanied with the perfect half-eye roll, you know the move, the eyes go up and to the right, not a full eye roll, just enough to spark rage in both of his parents. He was immediately sent to timeout, tears, apologies, promises of harsher punishment. While he was on timeout we looked at each other and said, "where did that come from?!?!" I'm still not sure but I did tell my sister that I blamed her when she shot me a whatever the other day.

Now I suspect that I have only myself to blame, natch. Tonight we got home and I realized I forgot Keith's milk. Patrick heard me and joined in with, "dang it, dang it, dang it!" I can't remember what I said about the milk before Patrick started in with the dang it's but by the fifth dang it I was thinking "mouths of babes." He came inside still dang it-ing and told me "Mom, I say dang it, you say shoot. Shoot, dang it, shoot, dang it." I told him that neither word was okay and we should both stop saying those words. He said okay and went on with his life.

Swearing is swearing even with all the effort to use euphemisms. I guess it would have been a bit jarring to hear the actual swear words coming out of Patrick's mouth. But either way, shame on me. There is nothing worse than hearing your (bad) words come out of your kid's mouth!