Mackay was sitting on the couch. Alone. With her lip gloss. And the story I heard after I found lip gloss drawn on the cushion was that she was trying to see if she could glue her hand to the couch. With lip gloss. I went into one of those crazy mom moments. Especially after I couldn’t get it out. So I was saying things like, “No more tv for the WHOLE day!” And then a few seconds later it was like, “And no computer games!” And pretty much, “I’m not going to be nice to you ever again!” I even made her call Nate at work. She explained the situation–how she accidentally got a little lip gloss on the couch. And how she was really sad. And then she handed the phone to me because Nate didn’t care. And once I got the phone and ACCURATELY described the situation, he still didn’t care. I hung up on him because I was still having a crazy mom moment and he didn’t support me in my craziness. He’s got some nerve.
Zack was sitting at the kitchen table in Mackay’s booster seat eating a peanut butter and jam sandwich. I was also sitting at the table, working on my laptop when I had the thought, “My life is so great right now. I love my perfect life.” And no sooner did those words go through my mind that the booster seat Zack was sitting in fell off the chair, and Zack and his PB&J went flying. “Oh no!” When I ran around to the other side of the table I saw Zack lying on his stomach, the sandwich no longer in his hands. But somehow the two pieces of bread separated in the chaos and jam was SMEARED for at least 12 inches all over the light colored carpet. I lifted Zack up to find jam also covering his little face, all the way from his forehead to covering one eye.
THIS was my week last week. It was a crazy, help-get-me-out-of-here, type of week. Luckily Nate and I had a little trip to Las Vegas planned for THIS week. But I really think it was BECAUSE of the Las Vegas trip that I didn’t feel like I could handle my kids anymore. Isn’t it funny how that happens? Together with the lip gloss incident, the jam incident, and the fat lip incident (oh, by the way, Zack got a fat lip), I wanted to scream. More than once.
But all is forgotten, because I’m in VEGAS, BABY!
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Kristi - Yay for Vegas! I was about to say that I hope it’s nice and warm for you… but I forget you’re not living in this frigidness anymore!
And, no worries – I have those “mom” moments every day. Many times a day. Sorry about the lip gloss and jam.
Cammie - I have those mom moments all the time. I’ve even at on Jane so that she can see how it feels when she sits on Kaleb. And I’ve considered biting Kaleb so that he’ll stop biting Jane, but haven’t quite gotten that crazy yet.
Diane - OOOOHHHHHHHHHHH! What could be said about children and permanent marker, crayons, chapstick, gum, ink pens, red jam, red punch/juice/soda, grapejuice etc. etc. Actually, Kalli, you said it pretty well. Just don’t let that lipgloss/chapstick make its way into the wash machine and dryer. Another TOTAL disaster!