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1. One day, when Aidan was a small toddler, I was wiggling her fat pink toes and reciting “this little piggy goes to market, this little piggy stayed home…” As I listened to her squeal with delight I was suddenly overcome with horror. Since my childhood, when my mom would wiggle my pink toes and say the lines, I always pictured a pig going to the grocery store. The pig, in my imagination, was pushing a cart full of grape soda, potato chips, and ice cream sandwiches. At that moment, as a grown-up mommy, I suddenly realized that the piggy wasn’t going to the market. The piggy was going to market. Meaning the piggy that got to stay at home kept his snout for one more day. The first, biggest piggy? He tasted great on my BLT.

2. Bologna isn’t very good. I grew up eating bologna and American cheese sandwiches. I have never given my kids bologna. It is like eating a thin slice of a 100 pound and 6 feet long raw hot dog.

3. If you are pregnant, sometimes (quite suddenly) you will remember the baby will want out eventually.
wah!

4. Never let your kids chew blue gumballs. If that means feeding 38 pennies into the gumball machine to get any other color, do it.

5. I know which is worse to step on in the middle of the night: Lego, or a wooden puzzle piece with a tiny plastic knob in the middle.

6. Sometimes, it’s better to throw the sippy cup away than clean it. This especially applies if the errant sippy cup is found in the car, in July, and it’s been more than a day. Most importantly? It has “milk” in it.

7. Always think twice before using your toothbrush. Is it in the exact, to-the-milimeter spot where you left it? Are the bristles facing the same direction, indicating it hasn’t been touched? Check the bristles for moisture before you run it under the faucet. Examine the toothbrush for strands of Barbie hair and dirt.

8. Never buy Dora the Explorer, Snoopy, Blues Clues, Spongebob, or Hello Kitty Bandaids. Suddenly the boo-boo count will skyrocket. Most of the injuries will be baffling and near-invisible. See the red dot on my knee mommy? I was walking in the backyard and a fly bumped into me! It hurts! Owwwwwwwww. I need a bandaid! Scooby Doo!

9. It isn’t worth trying to explain what chicken is made out of. What is chicken made out of? asks small child. It’s just chicken, you say. No, what is in it?, child presses. Chicken is a chicken, you reply. But what stuff is in chicken? sighs the child. Protein, amino acids, minerals, water, and fat, you say, hoping the complexity satifies the child. Does chicken have flour? the child keeps it up. No, cookies have flour, you cringe as you say this. You know what’s coming next: Mommy, can I have a cookie?

10. It’s okay (and preferred) to close the bathroom door when another adult is in the house.

10 comments to More Mommy Epiphanies

  • Mary

    I know this one all to well…
    “8. Never buy Dora the Explorer, Snoopy, Blues Clues, Spongebob, or Hello Kitty Bandaids. Suddenly the boo-boo count will skyrocket. Most of the injuries will be baffling and near-invisible. See the red dot on my knee mommy? I was walking in the backyard and a fly bumped into me! It hurts! Owwwwwwwww. I need a bandaid! Scooby Doo!”

  • Russ Eldredge

    Oh, how I can relate to this one! (I just bought a new box of Dora band-aids last night) Our two year old daughter started screaming at the top of her lungs last night in the bathtub. Serious injury? Only to my wife’s eardrums. It seems the Dora band-aid slipped off in the bathwater.
    I love your blog, and though I may not comment much, I read it daily. Congrats on the new home! Your post on roots was very good. Thanks for writing such a deep, funny and goody-two-shoe-ish blog! We may only have 3 kids (with one on the way), but we can relate to sooooo much of what you write. Keep up the great writing – you’re a natural!

  • mopsy

    Thanks, Russ! I can totally relate to witnessing a toddler meltdown over a bandaid. Hopefully your wife has recovered, and your daughter too!

  • How long have you been compiling that? Appreciate the pictures.

  • mopsy

    Lexie–I compiled it for about six hours. Heehee. I was having my usual insomniac fit and began to think of my other epiphanies, beside the legendary Spaghettios/Tomato Soup connection. By the time I got up, it was all written in my head and I just had to type it out.

    But, I guess you can say I’ve been compiling it for years…as long as I’ve been a mom!

  • Julie (Julieand3)

    I never knew that about the pig going to market. I thought he went shopping! Good luck on the house!

  • Daphodil

    Our household is sans small children now, so we have graduated to band-aids that are almost invisible to the naked eye. Some of them are guaranteed water-proof, but are also guaranteed to remove hair two layers of skin when peeled off. (OUCH!) We won’t be buying those anymore.

  • Daphodil

    … excuse me. That’s hair AND two layers of skin 😉

  • Kelly

    #6 – words I live by, because getting that chunk of milk out of the bottom of the sippy cup is not easy. Thanks for the laugh!!!

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