Top Ten Things I Won’t Do Again
1. Leave the disposable nursing breast pad in my lululemon yoga top after nursing my baby in the morning, and then teach a 90 minute hot yoga class without realizing it’s there (they do work, and retain all fluid–LOL!!).
2. Email my in-laws back while distracted because my children are talking to me, telling them that I’m glad they had a good journey and arrived safely–in response to an email they wrote to me saying that their flight was delayed, they got stuck in the airport overnight, and their luggage was sent to Prague instead of Greece.
3. Give my first child all types of foods at once—whole organic foods and junk food–including my ex-husbands favorite, Jax (a cousin of the Cheeto), assuming she would choose the “best” foods for her. The result: a ten-year-old who had not eaten a fruit or vegetable since she was 12 months old–when she refused to eat earth’s best anymore, and whose two food groups consisted of 1. all foods white and 2. chicken nuggets.
4. Assume that a doula would “get in the way” of my husband and my birth experience. With Phoenix, child number three, when my doula snuck to the bathroom for thirty seconds and my husband began massaging my back, I was quoted as saying “What are you DOING, Jenna?!” Then, as I looked back and noticed that my husband had taken over: “Oh, you’re not Jenna!! I want Jenna, not you!!”
5. Eat nutrasweet or any fake sweetener or fake food of any kind.
6. Leave my computer on with tons of unsaved files open when our cleaning help is cleaning…only to return a computer screen which is completely black.
7. Leave the baby-gate open at the bottom of the stairs by accident and feel a surge of adrenaline while making my children dinner—and a strong intuition to sprint to the top of the stairs, where I find my proud and out-of-breath 14-month-old son, who has just climbed Mt. Pink House (safely, thank the universe).
8. Get married at age 25.
9. Make fun of mini vans and people who drive them.
10. Gossip in any way, shape, or form.


August 31st, 2009 at 6:06 am
LOL…this is a list that while you would never do over..has made you who you are today! Live and learn!
I couldn’t help but laugh at the contrasts in our lives my friend! You got married at 25..I was 2 kids deep, pregnant with number 3 and the proud new owner of my very first minivan… (yes, Dave looked physically ill when writing THAT check)!
August 31st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Hi Auntie Taylor!!!
Such a fun post! I laughed out loud at number four!
Give everyone a hug and kiss for me!
xoxox
Chelsea
September 1st, 2009 at 2:57 am
Hi Super-mom Chrissy and Chels!
I wrote this article awhile ago and when I reread it yesterday, I laughed out loud a few times myself.
xo and Namaste!
Taylor
September 1st, 2009 at 7:58 am
Taylor,
Wow, I usually read on Monday, but boy did I need that post today! LOL!!
Can I just say, I have left that pad in on many a not ideal occasion…but I will never forget the first time I left two in before heading to PPY.
Thanks for the post,
Cheers,
Beth D
September 1st, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Oh those pads!
Taylor
September 1st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
‘Those pads’ is right! I have to say …they helped me fill out a dress like nothing else! LOL!
Chrissy
September 7th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Pads? I now leave them there on purpose so I look like I have boobs!
No worries about Madison – kids will be kids when it comes to food – let it be and she will too – otherwise – eating disorders will come out of being so worried about food all the time. One of the greatest things about being a kid is eating whatever you want without blinking an eye.
My sister was a junk food junkie to the nth degree – and now is SO healthy. Not raw vegan, but she only eats fruit, veggies, meat and nuts. No junk food anymore – EVER.
But she would not trade her memories of pigging out with her friends when she was a kid.
And I am impressed by your list. Mine would certainly have had in there – ummmm –
never get arrested,
never drink myself into oblivion or do drugs,
or ever wear a half shirt! LOL!
September 8th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Gigi…
LOL!!!!!!!!!! Your list cracks me up! I am with you with the 80′s stuff..I would ditch the pink foil lipstick and the high, aqua netted crunchy hair!
January 24th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Howdy, what a special website you have. I found it on Yahoo while looking for some newborn baby items. Thanks and good luck.