Basic Mom Week in Review - 08/20/17

5 Things That Actually Happened This Week and the Lessons I Learned

1. My kids started a phase of making Barbie clothes out of Play Doh.

Lesson: My kids love finding new ways to make me feel inferior and uncreative (and to leave dried bits of Play Doh everywhere).

2. This conversation while looking at old pictures on my phone:

8-Year-Old: I feel like me and Juliet looked alike when we were little.

3-Year-Old: Yeah, when Isla was little, she was adorable like me.

Lesson: My life would be a lot easier if I had even a tenth of my 3-year-old's confidence.

3. This conversation about 4 minutes after I gave my daughter a piece of gum:

3-Year-Old: Momma, I swallowed my gum. Can I have another piece?

Me: No. 

3-Year-Old:

Lesson: I am not raising a rational being.

4. I dropped a glass container of meatballs on the kitchen floor, and it resulted in one of the biggest messes I've ever had to clean up in my life. When my 3-year-old saw the mess, she started crying and said, "That was my favorite dish!"

Lesson: To be fair, I kind of wanted to cry over the loss of a Pyrex as well.

5. This scene at the park:

3-Year-Old: [reaches into my bag and pulls out a container]

3-Year-Old: Mom, I have pretzels!

3-Year-Old: [opens container and the pretzels fly everywhere]

Me: Correction, you had pretzels.

3-Year-Old: [near tears]

Me: [pulls out backup snack container of cheddar penguins, opens it, and sets it on the bench next to my daughter]

3-Year-Old: [immediately knocks container over, dumping it contents all over the sandy bench]

Lesson: I need to start packing a backup snack for my backup snack.