Lesson #1: As a girl, I’ve always envied how easy it is for boys to go to the bathroom—anywhere. After hearing Big shout from the bath, “Ow! I just peed in my eye!” I’m thinking easy isn’t always best.
Lesson #2: My kids will do anything for an M&M (ok, four M&Ms). Little’s even potty training himself—much to my dismay—for the love of those tasty morsels. (Am I the only mom who prefers diapers to accidents?)
Lesson #3: It turns out cardboard isn’t a ‘nice to have’ when it comes to concrete slides. It’s a necessity. The proof? A hole in my pants and a nasty bruise/road rash…well, where my pants used to be. Consider yourself warned!
Lesson #4: Football season is much more fun when one of your teams actually wins. (Thank you, Bruins.) No doubt it was thanks to the combination of clothes our family was/wasn’t wearing, the fact that we completely forgot to hang our flag—yes, we have a flag—and that we ate soup for dinner. This pattern will be repeated for the next 10(?) weeks, just in case.
Lesson #5: Scheduling your kid’s surgery for when your husband is out of town doesn’t make you a super mom. It makes you a crazy one. Wish Little and his poor teeny ears (and me) good luck tomorrow morning!
Hope you had an eye-opening, encouraging, smooth, victorious, drama-free week! As always, feel free to share any “Lessons” you learned this week in the comments. I look forward to hearing from you!
#1 – Haha. I don’t envy them anymore either. LOL.
#2 -Oh my. No, wait until you have to really decide to just “throw away those cute little Gap underwear that has nasty poop in it or WASH IT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS and keep it. Um, Fred threw away quite a few already.
#3 – Concrete slide? OUCH. I was just on a slide yesterday w the kids and even metal ones didn’t feel too nice on my butt. OUCHHHH for you. I’m sorry to hear.
#4 – You guys are such cute sport fanatics.
#5 – I will be thinking of you Amy… you ARE a SUPER MOM in my eyes 🙂 I know you can do it. And wishing Little ALL my luck tomorrow with his little surgery. Is the surgery removing tubes? or putting in tubes?
Thanks for mom unity and good thoughts, my friend. They removed the old tubes which had fallen out of place (and gave them to me as a souvenir?) and put new ones in. Hope you and your super patient are doing well. I think of you every day!
I, too used to envy boys for that “go anywhere” ability, but given that they can never seem to go INTO the toilet bowl, my envy diminished significantly as my clean up of little and big boys increased!
As to Little’s teeny ears, I hope that Mom and patient are both back on the mend. As an aside – really, who needs a souvenir when you get gray hairs to mark the event!
So true! Little now has two new healthy ear canals (and is back to jumping like a madman) and I have more new gray hairs then I care to count.
I love this story. With all the labels, we sometimes forget that it is okay to be a little odd, or as I like to think of it, a little quirky. Life is too short to be anything else!