Just Give Me My Mother of the Year Award and I’ll Be on My Way
One of my goals for this blog is to make anyone who reads it feel better about their parenting skills. The best way I know how to accomplish this is by telling you some tales of my many parenting faux pas. I’ve been doing this mom thing now for 28 years, and I have quite a few doozies. But let’s start with my latest…
Extended School Year Sleep In
Last Monday (of course this happened on a Monday), I was having some serious one-on-one time with the snooze button on our alarm clock. I also was unable to shut my phone up. It kept going off at 15-minute increments, with little messages that would pop up. Something about hat day, and Jason needs to take a shower…. whatever. Shut it off and back to sleep I go.
All was good until I could hear the distant sound of a horn, and then the sound of a large vehicle pulling away. For a moment I was like, what the heck was that…? But then I was back to sleep within seconds, and then woken up abruptly by my 14-year-old who let me know, “hey mom, I just missed my bus.”
Crap! Except that’s not exactly what I said.
The Race
Can I be honest here? One imperfect parent to another?
I barely remember the sequence of events that followed. There was panic, followed by an array of stand alone ‘sentence enhancers’, throwing some clothes at my kid and telling him to brush his teeth… which I’m not entirely sure that he did.
I then practically jumped downstairs to get to the kitchen so I could put together a healthy snack for him. Sorry kiddo, a single pack of Pringles and a Kool-Aid Jammers will have to do.
Meanwhile, while I’m racing around like a nutbar trying to make sure my kid gets to school on time, he’s nonchalantly packing up his laptop, putting on his sneakers and getting a new facemask out of the hall closet. And do you know what? He was ready before I was.
“Mom, it’s okay. It’s okay if we’re a little late.”
And he was right. He usually is. And it turns out we weren’t even late. I got him there right on time. The aids were out front ready to greet him, and they even told me to not worry about oversleeping because it happens to the best of us.
Conclusion
So, I had a bad morning. One of MANY. It wasn’t my first, and it definitely won’t be my last. The important takeaways here are:
- We’re only human, and humans are not perfect
- Humans are prone to oversleeping
- My kid made it to school on time
- Nobody got hurt. I think. I did yeet the clothes pretty hard in his direction
Ok, so now I want to hear/read about some of your parenting faux pas. Go ahead and leave them down in the comments below.
