I yell way more than I ever wanted to.  I sleep sometimes when my kids aren't sleeping and I am mostly a stay-at-mom.  Except a few times a month when I work a 12 hour shift.  I thought I would always work atleast part-time. Those are just a few I don't want you to report me!  haha

Haha! Oh, I've got a long list, too!

I have much less patience, right now anyhow. I look forward to their bedtime a bit too much. I'm totally that mom that passes the kids off to hubby as soon as he gets home.

That's good...for a start! ;-)

Ouch!  You hit me with the whole TV thing!  Uhm, yeah.  Well, we just won't go there for now! :-) 

Let's see, I can join you all in the others, too.  I would say my patience is the biggest.  That and my pre-mom thought I would do a lot neat crafty things with my kids all the time.  My post-mom says that is insane! 

Great topic Tamara! Thanks for starting this!

I actually never ever thought about being a mom, until I became pregnant at 18. That was a surprise! I, like Brandie, wish I could stop yelling so much at my kids. I do remember one thing I promised I would never do. My dad lied to me ALL the time, and I remember thinking that I would never do that. That is still something that is very important to me. I won't even lie to my kids about Santa Clause. I get a lot of flack for that, but I want to be completely truthful.....always.

Glad I could bring up a fun topic! And I am in agreement with everything listed so far. Told you I had a long list! ;-)

The yelling is the thing for me, something I swore I would never ever do...now I understand my own Mom a little more.  Funny how parenthood changes your perspective.

Yelling for sure. I always thought I'd have more patience and be the fun mom. I'm so not the fun mom! I get told daily how not fun  I am. At least I'm working on it.

It helps to see so many with the same struggle, it helps me keep things in perspective.  No, I'm not perfect, but neither is anybody else.

Yea I wish I didn't get so upset, so easily. I never thought I would be like that but I guess I never thought too much about it. I need more patience.

I wish I did more creative things with them and bake. I thought I would bake a lot with my kids but um yea, I hate to bake!!

I thought I would be a "cooler" parent.  When growing up I was going to be the one that let the kids choose what they wanted to eat, what they watched, etc.

We had kids on the younger side, though not super young (24).  So I went from thinking I would be a "fun" mom to not really thinking about kids at all (typical teen, college student, etc) to having kids and being super conscious of everything.  From food (nope, they don't ge the crap cereal, they eat as healthy as we ate as kids!  my mom was onto something but don't tell her!!) to TV (they do have as many limits as I had).

The one thing I caved on was video games.  DH was into them as a kid, and really gets a kick out of the Wii with the little guys.  Not huge amounts of time, but I never even wanted one in the house!!  We have PS3 too, but no kid games for that, was the only way I was willing to let the hubby get that.

Ah well.....