THE GOOD
- I got all my housework done this weekend. That’s a miracle of epic proportions right there.
- I caught up on some TiVo.
- I did some design work.
- I finalized our reservations for our blogger MeetUp this weekend.
- I finished Hoot and it was so good and you should definitely read it before you see the movie.
- We got our tickets for the Go! party this week at the Rave Theater Opening.
THE BAD
- Diet? What diet?
- I actually cut out coupons to use and even bought two items to use the coupons with, but I forgot to give my coupons to the cashier and I’m not lying: I almost cried. “I’m such a COUPON FAILURE!” In reality though? The generic stuff still would have been cheaper, I just wanted to use the damn coupons so we at least learned our lesson: For people who buy tons of generic stuff? Coupons don’t save them money.
- NikkiZ woke up every hour on the hour last night. AWESOME.
- I had an appointment for an hour-long European facial for Saturday. A gift from my brother. At 1pm I realized I had missed it. I cried over that too.
THE TERRIBLY UGLY
Co-Sleeping is one of those dreaded topics that drags out the trolls. I do not have strong opinions about co-sleeping as a parenting choice, in general. Before NikkiZ was born I kinda thought people who did it were KRAZEE, but I never thought they were bad parents, it just wasn’t for me. Well, somehow we started co-sleeping with NikkiZ and I love it with all of my heart. I still don’t think it’s for everyone, because it wasn’t for me and LilZ when he was a baby (he and I co-slept later though), but it is good for us.
However, in the debate, there is always that list of Very Bad Things That Could Happen That Could Hurt/Kill The Baby. So, we all take precautions to avoid those things from happening. Let’s just say, I accidentally fell asleep the other night without taking one of those precautions and one of those Very Bad Things happened. Luckily, NikkiZ isn’t hurt. However, we really aren’t sure how she didn’t get hurt, it kinda defies all logic and laws of physics. I don’t want to go into details because typing it out makes me feel even worse, but lets just say I am not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that my mistake could have killed NIkkiZ. All because I was too tired/lazy to take the necessary precautions and you have no idea how awful I feel.
So - I don’t want anyone to tell me the things I already know - how to keep Very Bad Things From Happening While Co-Sleeping. I especially don’t want to know Why I Should Not Be Co-Sleeping. What I do want is for anyone else who has a nightmare story to share it with me to make me feel better. What dumbass parenting thing did you do?
And I swear to whatever god you worship that if anyone gets even slightly assy in the comments? I’ll delete them. I normally believe in leaving assy comments alone, but today? I’m too fragile and they’ll be deleted quicker than you can say “Jackass.”
My almost 4-y-o crawled off the bed when she was about 7 months old. I thought I would die right then and there. She was completely unharmed despite the fall from our bed to the concrete floor in the unfinished basement that is our bedroom. NikkiZ is okay. You are an incredible mother who had something bad happen. Breathe slowly and go back to doing what you were doing. It will be alright.
I left my 10 month old on the bed while I ran into the bathroom to grab something. I heard “Mommy” before the heartbreaking sound of thud. Thank God he was fine. Did I learn my lesson? Did my second son do the same thing when he was 8 months old? I’m not saying. He’s fine too though.
I hope your heartbeat slows down, and I’m sure little NikkiZ is getting lots of extra hugs and kisses today. I didn’t co-sleep often, but the few times I did I didn’t take all the precautions. Lucky for me nothing bad happens.
Man, this comment makes me sound VERY negligent. I swear I am a fairly competent mom!
It’s been so long since my kids were that age, it’s hard to remember specific incidents, but I also had the roll-off-the-bed one. That I do remember.
Stop beating yourself up. Even a stranger coming here can see (and feel) you’re an excellent mom. Enjoy your day…..because you deserve to.
Happened, nothing happened. They are 3 years old and 18 months old and happy and healthy.
I am going to make you feel so much better. First when Haley was a couple months old, and I was off somewhere with Emily, Aaron had a friend come by, and they left together WITHOUT THE BABY! She was upstairs sleeping ON OUR BED, and he totally forgot her. When I came home and saw his car gone, and I had both car seats in mine…well lets just say you’ve never seen anyone sprint up stairs so fast.
Then, when Will was learning to crawl, I was out side with him cleaning the van in the driveway, and HE CRAWLED INTO THE STREET. And we lived on a fairly busy residential street at the time. Ye gads, it’s a wonder they all made it to age 2.
Don’t worry, you’re still a good mommy.
oops, I meant “outside.” And Haley was fine, still sleeping peacefully on the bed.
Youa re a great mom. NikkiZ is ok and those are the two most important things. I think you are amazingly brave for posting about this. As other commenters have shown, things happen. I remember my mom turning around for a SECOND when my brother was on one of those changing tables and thud he rolled right off and screamed blue murder. It was an accident. My brother was fine. HUGs to you and NikkiZ!
When Zoe was just born Jonathan put her in her car seat and was swinging it around and out she flew and landed on the hard kitchen floor - right on top of her head.
2 weeks ago I was holding Jessi and she arched her back really hard and flew backwards out of my arms and landed on her face.
Both kids are a-ok but it does make you absolutely sick to think of what might have been. Just go on with your day and remember that NikkiZ is alive and well and way too young to remember any of this.
I think most, if not all, of us moms have had times when we’ve just blanked - from being tired or preoccupied. Here’s my story: When my youngest was a few months old, I set her in her car carrier, then went to get my not-yet-2-year-old into his seat… and drove off without buckling my youngest into her seat. I didn’t even realize it until we stopped! Thank goodness nothing happened!! But don’t beat yourself up. Don’t go down the “what could have happened route”, just don’t. She’s ok, you’re ok, and I bet you never do it again.
Hi - you are a great mom! And my daughter wants to be your son’s pen pal - she loves High School Musical!!!
Anyway - I could write you a huge laundry list of all the stuff that’s “almost” happened with my kids who also happen to have special needs so in 15years have gotten into lots of dangerous stuff — ugh. I did drop my oldest, my youngest fell out of the screen door, and the middle one cut her thumb almost off with Dad’s razor - while I was typing at home (being a ‘good’ mom).
Hugs to you — dori
Where should I start? With the time when Princess was a tiny baby, and I forgot to put the brakes on the travel system stroller dealio, and it drifted forward and off the front step, flipping on its back? Or the day I left the babysitter’s house, but forgot to fasten Hoss’ car seat restraint? Or the day I dropped Princess at daycare and forgot that I had Lil Joe (about 3 weeks old at the time) in the car, so I went inside and left him alone?
I could go on and on, but you’d want to hunt me down and report me to Child Protective Services. Sleep deprivation is a bad, bad thing.
I hemorraged after labour with my first, lost so much blood that i actually passed out in the hospital bed. The unfortunate part of it–y’know, besides the whole could of bled to death part—was that I was holding my 6 hour old baby at the time. She fell right off the edge of the bed, onto the hospital floor (ewwww), and freaked so bad, that I woke up and realized what had happened. The next two hours involved a CAT scan on her part, and a emergency D & C on mine. Fun times!! Thankfully she was ok, as was I.
Sadly enough, that was only the first time I dropped her. And I can’t even tell you the awful awful awful thing that happened to my son–lets just say it involved a 5 foot drop, a fence and a concrete pool deck. It happened last August and I still freak out when I think about it, which is prob twice a week now. I’m sure that whatever happened to NIkkiZ (poor baby), she will be fine. You on the other hand, will of course, being the great mommy that you are, obsess about it hourly, then daily, then weekly. Don’t worry, that is normal, so my doc told me when I asked about why I couldn’t stop freaking out about my son’s fall. It just pops into your head at the strangest times, and you totally feel the same feelings that you had at the time it happened. It doesn’t happen nearly as often as it did when it happened.
Hope you and NIkkiZ feel better, and rest assured, you aren’t the first, nor the last that will do something inadvertantly to their children. It happens to the best of us!
Fell off the bed, twice. Caught as about to fall off the bed, at least twice. Nearly dropped at age one day when we both fell asleep in glider. Propped up in a standing position to capture him “standing” on film, fell backwards and bonked his head on the far side of his crib. There are a few other picture related disasters as well. Put to bed with no diaper on because forgot (!) (this was last week) result husband cleaning poop stained everything and baby has terrible diaper rash. Baby in car seat, car seat not properly buckled, twice. I could go on and on– I consider myself a good mother and you a great one. NikkZ is lucky to have you.
I agree with the other commenters. You seem like a great mom who loves your children. We all have stories about how we have almost killed our children. I never really co-slept, but would occasionally take naps with my son or put him in our bed in the morning. I woke up one morning almost completely laying on top of him. What kept him breathing I won’t know, but he is fine. And so is NikkiZ. I hope your day gets better and all of the encouragement you are getting really does lift your spirits.
Zoot don’t feel guilty. I know that’s impossible. But seriously. Shit happens. She wasn’t hurt. Lesson learned. Move on.
Trust me. I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. Remember? When noah was one and left my backyard? I still can’t tell that story. I can;t even tell it right now!
Breath a sigh of relief and let it go.
Happy troll hunting.
It is because of things like that, that I have looked into buying one of those cosleeper bed thingies… for you know… when I actually have a kid. Because I’m not so dumb as to think I’m actually going to leave my first born in another room alone every night. I just don’t think I’ll have the ability to do it. So I am VERY glad that NikkiZ is ok and I’m sorry that happened to you. And I’m also quite sorry that you missed your facial. I bet that would have been hella fun.
I was going to tell you about my adventures with my 16 month old, but decided that I might look like a bad parent. Lets just say there was a time with a heavy blanket on the side of the crib, a crib mattress set too high, a bathtub full of hot water, and a mad dash to the street. All of which? There were obvious precautions for. Every time my lifespan shortens just a bit more. We’ve never had any problems with the older two, but this one? I think he’s just preparing us for things to come.
Don’t worry Zoot, the fact remains that she is fine. I know how you feel because the “what if”s drive you crazy! My son co-slept with me when he was little and rolled off the bed twice. The first time he hit the phone that was on the floor and we took him to church with a black eye.
The worst is what happened last fall. I had my son, his friend and my baby girl in the car and we had only so much time to find something for him to her baby dedication then pick up both great grandmothers. I was hustling! We jumped out of the car, ran into JC Penny’s and I got to the escalator and realized that I left my baby girl in the car when I saw another woman carrying a baby. My 13 yr old son grabbed my keys and bolted to the car. She was fine and happy and playing but I collapsed in the parking lot and started crying uncontrollably! Took me a while to get over that until I read other stories of tired, post natal, absentminded moms who had done other things. You are good mother and everything is fine 
One time, when mine was a toddler, there was a broken window pane in the house that I knew about and didn’t fix. Sure enough my baby reached up one day and slit the the tip of her finger. The Dr. had to GLUE! it back on. She still has a tiny scar at 16. So, at the ER admissions when the nurse asked how the injury happened….guilt,guilt,guilt. I think back on that time and I can forgive myself because I can see how tired and stressed I was. Keeping another human being ALIVE (because that’s what mothers do) and dealing with every other aspect of daily life is hard and imperfect, I know that now, but back then….guilt,guilt,guilt.
We put our 8 year old on a bus to Montreal Canada to attend an Expos baseball game..alone..unattended..out of the freaking country..thinking it was a chaperoned rec dept sanctioned field trip. Nope. Alone, no one to care where is was or what he was doing. I didn’t understand what we had done for 2 years after that and 25 years later, I still sudder when i think about it.
Coming out of lurkdom to let you know I’ve had one close call when my son was a baby. I coslept with both of my kids at various points during their infancy, they are now almost 3 and 4 and fortunately sleep just fine in their own beds. Anyway, I remember once my son managed to get wedged between the headboard and the wall, his body was dangling and his head was stuck. I woke up from his crying and will never forget that sickening feeling and I had “what ifs” running through my head for a long time after it happened.
we co-sleep as well, but not as much now after the “mishap”…we got her a bassinet and she goes in the bed w/us AFTER her 3 or 4am feeding. anyway, here’s my story…
i was exhausted (as usual) and fell asleep on the futon while my baby (she was 4.5months old at the time) and her daddy went up to bed. normally, it’s not a big deal when i pass out in the living room, but HELLO, she started to roll over already.
at 3am, all i heard was THUD from upstairs and papaDaddy yelling “WHOA!!! NOOO!!! NOOO…NOOOO!!!”
i never ran up the stairs so fast in my life! my lil beanster fell off the bed onto our wood floor, and mind you, it’s a pretty high bed.
she had a bump on the back of her head, but she’s ok now…what’s funny is she cries more when she wakes up hungry than she did when she fell off the bed.
it happens to the best of us…apparently, it happened to papaDaddy when he was 5months old too. he’s fine, for the most part
so, it leaves me to believe that it’s all good…(i hope).
I was just telling Hubby about this over this weekend, as a matter of fact! (he’s Hubby number 2)
This happened when my 25 year old (yeah- he’s survived my parenting this long- wahoo!- so I think he’s going to live…) was just starting to roll over. I was using the counter in the bathroom to change him and I turned around for just a minute to put his diaper in the diaper pail.
It seemed to be in slow motion as I was turning around I saw him roll over and !THUD! he landed face first on the bathroom floor.
He ended up with a black eye, but thankfully nothing worse than that (you can bet I drove him directly to the doctor!).
Don’t beat yourself up. Seriously. I don’t know of ONE.SINGLE.PARENT who hasn’t been through something they wish hadn’t happened.
xoxo
The first Wino Book Club meeting after my son entered my life?
Since it was my first “drinking with the gals” night since his birth, I proceeded to get royally trashed and had to call my husband at NINE pm to get my drunk butt home. Then, the next day, I was so hung over, my husband had to help me take care of the baby. I felt like such a freakin’ loser.
Accidents happen. Remember to be kind to yourself.
OH, I thought of another (hey, you asked, right?). I put Arun in his carseat, then proceeded to drive into Kansas City, on a major Interstate doing easily 70 MPH the entire way. When I arrived at the destination, I realized that I had not TIGHTENED THE CARSEAT STRAPS. If I had been in any kind of wreck or even a minor fender bender, Arun could have been seriously injured. And yes, I cried when I saw what I had forgotten to do.
Again - don’t be too hard on yourself.
Posting from a glass house here…………
One day my daughter was hanging out on the bed while I folded laundry. I went to the other side of the bed to put my socks in the underbed drawer. Before I could stop it, my daughter rolled off! Those two seconds of silence before I could get to the other side felt like an eternity. She let out a cry just as I scooped her up. I think it was really the look of fear on her face that got me; she was physically okay. If the drawer on the other side had been out, or if she’d rolled at a different angle…it could have been… I couldn’t stop thinking about it for a couple of weeks.
I’m glad that NikkiZ is okay — and you are too!
Zoot, not being a parent, I don’t have any stories, but I just finished reading the comments and damn, you’ve got some fantastic readers!
I think almost everyone has moments like this but no one wants to say so because it sounds so awful.
I let my baby fall off the changing table once. I felt so terrible, I didn’t even tell my husband. Baby is five now, and totally fine.
Oh, and once when I was out in the car, my 3-year-old said, “Hey, why is my seat belt not buckled?” We’d been driving for, like, 20 minutes. I still have a huge gag feeling even thinking about that.
I thankfully have not had anything truly dangerous or heart stopping happen w/ the boys but thought I would share something my parents did with me. It’s funny now. When I was about 12 months old my parents were out with me in my stroller and the family dog - a german/australian shepherd mix and my dad got the bright idea to tie his leash to my stoller so he could pull me. Well as soon as it was tied on, Omar took off and slammed me into a parked car while taking a turn at top speed, I was fine but a few bumps and bruises. Another time my mom turned away from my changing table and I fell off bringing the whole thing down on top of me. I was fine and I think no worse of my parents knowing these things either. I am just glad NikkiZ is ok - and you too. Don’t be too hard on yourself - you are a great mother.
So when my daughter Alanna was 2 months old her dad had her at his work. (he owns his own business). He had her on one of the big comfy computer chairs. For some reason he thought the ten minutes he was there she would be more comfy there than her safe car seat. Anyways he turned his back and “PLOP” went my poor baby onto the ground. He called 911 and the ambulance came and took her to the hosp for a checkup. Then Chris worked up enough courage to call me at work. Now Chris is always joking with me about the kids, like he forgot to pick them up or locked thim in the closet or something silly like that… so when he called me to tell me that Alanna fell, I told him to shut it and I had to get back to work. he then said he wasn’t kidding. I never drove as fast as I did to the hospl. Luckly nothing happened. Not a scratch or a bruise. We had a lucky day. I think kids are a little tougher than we give them credit for. Glad to hear NikkiZ is okay, I know exactly what you are feeling.
Both of my kids have fallen off the bed in the past couple of months when I had them sleeping on the outside so at least one of them wouldn’t be kicking their father. (Plus, now they fight if they are both in the middle).
When they were much smaller Ian crawled right off the end of the bed and landed on his nose (I was doing dishes). After that I made him sleep in his crib. Sort of… they still both come to bed in the middle of the night almost every night.
this is part of an entry I wrote while ago.
we had a scary trip on taking the car to the shop this morning, I put the babies car seat in the base, and I know I heard it click in, but as I took a right turn I felt something push against my seat, it was the babies car seat! somehow it had come out if the base! my poor son was rolling around in his car seat, I found him to be up side down! he was strapped in well and wasn’t hurt, but oh my god I was really shaken! I didn’t even think I could get back in to drive the rest of the way to the shop! I did though, and checked him over to make sure he was okay! my poor son! when I found him laying up side down in the back seat, he looked at me like Mom, you bitch, put me right! poor thing! stupid ass car seat!
Oh and because I obviously want the world to know what a neglectful mother I am, LOL, besides the cosleeping incident, I have also forgotten to buckle my daughter into her infant carrier when she was a newborn. Her brother is less than 12 months older and I must have gotten preoccupied getting him into his seat after I took her out of the snugli, because when I got home to unload the groceries, I realized she wasn’t attached to the car seat at.ALL. I still feel guilty over that one three years later. My sister had her first child 3 months ago and told me the same thing happened to her and she doesn’t even have another child to blame. We all make mistakes as parents…I could go on if you need to feel better, but I run the risk of CPS tracking me down j/k LOL.
If my wife ever knew I posted this she would probably kill me, but when my daughter was just old enough to start moving herself (not even really crawling yet), When I would leave for work, I would bring the baby in and put her in bed with mom, and they would cuddle before getting up to start the day. Well one morning, mom fell back asleep, and as I was walking out the door, I heard the THUD, and the little one had scooted herself off the bed, and right onto her head on the hardwood floors.
It seems ever parent has at least one story like this. Beating yourself up will do no good. (But extra kisses may certainly help sooth your aching soul
from the comment above:
I myself being a first time mom, am learning shit happens, take it in stride, babies are tough, I know that it WILL NOT be the last time that he may be in a situation I wish he wasn’t!
your a good mom!! don’t ever let anyone tell you different! but sometimes no matter how hard you try not to, or how much you are reassured you are, you just feel like a bad mom.
I had a stupid parent moment this weekend as well.
We’re trying to not swaddle the baby for naps in his Miracle Blanket. But he still startles himself awake if he is not swaddled.
So I have the bright idea to wrap a receiving blanket around his arms so his feet can stay out! Brilliant!
two hours later, I go in to check on him and THE BLANKET IS WRAPPED AROUND HIS FACE.
My heart stopped and I pulled it off and he was busy sucking away on his pacifier, so I knew he was not dead. I, on the other hand, almost was.
Now I see why they tell you not to give babies blankets.
I will now slink off into bad-parent land…
I don’t have any kids but I do have nephews and neices and know from their escapades and my parents stories of me and my sibs as kids that the freakiest stuff happens.
A few years ago I was standing one evening ( it was getting dark) with heavy shopping bags in my hand waiting to cross one of the busiest roads into London, when a brightly coloured ball bounced out of the shop I had just vacated, past me and into the road, closely followed by a little boy who would be around 18 monthsold, maybe older. I dropped my shopping and grabbed him just before he ran in front of a car, swung him round and placed him back on the pavement just as his mother came running out of the shop. My heart was in my mouth I can’t imagine how she was feeling, poor lady. These things just happen in an instant!
Girl, please do not beat yourself up over this! I know you still are, so stop right now. Your girlchild is fine, and you could “what if” all day long. One of my many stupid moments include… the time Wacky Boy flung himself off the changing table. While I was standing right there. And even though he was strapped in. WTF? I caught him by the head. Yes, that’s right. I used my right arm and kinda… I don’t even know what, but he didn’t land, thank God. Tile floor. Scary. Since I almost got my legs crushed last week I keep on reliving it, it’s horrible. I keep thinking, “What if it had been one of the kids. I could never have lifted even one of those concrete boards off. What if???” So I am trying to stop, cuz it’s making me cry. You are a great moms, don’t forget that.
So, I’m getting the impression that you’re not the only one out there, eh? I was dropped on my head when I was a baby…I’m fine. I think.
I don’t have any kids, but I can tell you, don’t feel guilty, what you don’t do to your children, they will do to themselves. I went through a phase at about 5-6 years of age where I would roll myself out of my own bed on a regular basis. I landed on my nose enough times that I still have a slight crooked bend in it. I also took a straight-edged razor to my finger, and when my mom walked in five minutes later, I think she lost more blood than I did. Oh, and I knocked myself out trying to be a trapeze artist. So don’t worry about hurting them, they do enough of that themselves, you’re a fine mom.
(Oh, and when I worked at a daycare, I saw a little boy belly-flop off a 5 foot high platform on to a _gravel bed_ because he was “walking the plank.”)
I’m in the process of adopting so I am going to revisit this post the first time something horrible and scary happens with my child. Thanks everyone for preparing me.
I will however share my best friend’s story. She always wears ridiculously high heels. She was hurrying somewhere and carrying her not quite 2 year old. She tripped and fell on her daughter. She broke her daughter’s leg in 2 places - poor thing was in a cast up to her hip forever. Her daughter is fine now and has no memory of it…but I’m sure someone will fill her in when it’s time to ask for a car
I’m sorry, but anyone out there who claims not to have their own “oopsy” and “oh shit” moments is either lying or so freakin’ neurotic that i don’t want to know them. And anyone who uses the phrase “drags out the trolls” should TOTALLY be writing for money, because that’s hysterical!
Good gravy…my list would be pages long if I really sat down and thought about it. Suffice it to say, I’ve been there. We didn’t co-sleep (I hate that word/phrase for whatever reason) but my kids managed to do things to themselves and I managed to let things happen and we are all no worse for the wear. I think all three of my children have fallen out of bed multiple times at all different ages. My youngest daughter decided to pick up the 4 week old by the arm from the couch and drag him across the floor in as long as it took me to carry a basket of towels to the laundry room. I SWEAR she was with me a SECOND before! Hmm..let’s see..there was the time my one year old (at the time) was using the disposable razor to “brush his teeth.” We’ve had dashes to the busy road, unbuckled car seats, car seats not fastened with the seat belt…etc etc etc…
Look, we are NOT perfect no matter how hard we try. You are STILL a good mother!!! NikkiZ and LilZ both are beautiful and thriving. Don’t sweat it sistah! You are awesome!
Lordy, your posts and comments always remind me I’m in good company in the “normal” mom category! We screw up, but love our kids like kee-razy.
Let’s see. When Leila was about five months old I had her propped in her infant carrier against a cabinet, because she liked to watch me unload the dishwasher. I turned away for a hot second and heard a horrible, sickening thud and then a scream of sheer terror–the child had launched herself out of the seat and was laying on the ground like a little rag doll. I nearly threw up I was so horrified. She had a huge goose egg and we both cried for a good long time!
More recently she was upstairs with her grandfather while I rested on the coach. I heard a HUGE bang and then screams and sobs. She’d taken a dive off of the dining room table when no one was looking. She’s also fallen off of her changing table several times, but oddly, not until she was old enough to sit up on it–and pitch herself forward while my back was turned.
Each incident took years off of our lives, didn’t they?
Hey, these are great! Besides the whole kids falling off the bed onto the hard floor thing (been there), the kids not buckled into carseats thing (done that), the kids escaped into the street thing (been there, done that)…we’ve had lots of fun incidents, including me pulling my own child’s arm out of its elbow socket (no guilt there, nope, nuh-uh), and one time I locked us out of the house so I buckled the kids in the car while I spent well over a half hour trying to break back into the house (successful! but not recommended)…but my best story is from McDonald’s the other day. A dad was there with his three kids (one of them was about 18 months, and she was a real escape artist) and they were in the playplace and I guess he figured his kids were safe because he laid out the newspaper and kicked his feet up. For some reason he’d left the back door open so the minute he wasn’t looking his youngest took off out the door and into the parking lot in front of the drive-thru. A woman in a mini-van pulled over and grabbed the kid before she got to the four-lane highway. The dad didn’t even notice until I said, “Hey…isn’t that your kid?” and pointed out the window. He freaked of course, and another dad who was in there said, “Well, that’s not a story that’s going to get back to the wife!” and they both laughed nervously (and then looked at me, as if I’ve never tried to catch a moment of peaceful reading the paper…). And just yesterday I left the kids alone with markers and the one-year-old ate the blue and the orange ones. Pretty poop! Pretty poop! So smile. We’re all here for you.
Luckily when I coslept I was a single mom who could only afford an air mattres for my bed, any roll offs were 6 inches to the floor.
But… Nick has escaped on Tim.. The one day Tim was home with Nick, and he decided to lay down and take a nap with Nick. It was hot outside so the airconditioner was on in his bedroom. Nick woke up and snuck downstairs. He put his shoes on, grabbed his baseball bat and glove and left the house. He walked down the street and into the woods and found a baseball. The neighbor saw him going into the woods and didn’t see Tim around so the neighbor went and got Nick and started knocking on the door. Tim was sound asleep in the bedroom upstairs and couldn’t hear the knocking because the air conditioner was on. The neighbor took Nick into their house and called the cops because they though Tim might have had a heartattack or worse. The cops tried knocking on the door, then they came into the house went in the bedroom and saw Tim sleeping. They were sniffing him for alcohol (which no, he wasn’t drinking) They told him to put latches on the doors gave Nick back and left.
So yeah, we all have our screw ups. You can’t be a parent without them. All that matters is that NickiZ is fine.
I don’t have kids so I can’t tell my story, but ask me in 20 years. *sigh*
IT happens to the best of us…:D
My daughter has fallen off the bed many times…the first time when she was about 7 months and I was STANDING.RIGHT.THERE.
Oh and lets not forget the time I rolled up her finger in the car window(she was 3) and actually broke it….*snob* I still have major guilt over that.
When my son was about 3 1/2 he fell out of his new big-boy bed onto a hardwood floor, because I forgot to put up the railing.
I heard him thud, but he barely woke up, just kind of whimpered. I thought he hit his face, so I kept holding his shoulders to turn him towards me to get a look. Turns out he BROKE HIS COLLARBONE, and every time I was turning him by the shoulder I was hurting him!
Mother of the Year!
But he was fine, and totally loved wearing his brace for several weeks.