Two

When she toppled over my tea dangerously close to my keyboard this morning, I knew it would be one of those days... Amazing what a huge mess an 8 oz cup of chai tea latte can make. Really, it was shocking. I told her to go play while I cleaned up the mess. She went into the kitchen where we keep her play kitchen and I heard her happily banging around with her stove.

After a minute I noticed it got a bit quiet, so  went in there to find her smearing unfinished raisin bran all over the floor. Lovely. I cleaned that up, gave her a bath and decided (at 9:30 am, mother of the year here) it was naptime (she actually slept, so I don't feel bad).

This afternoon while Monkey and I were fiddling with some Christmas decorations she went into the bathroom and dumped two bath towels into the toilet and made sure they were good 'n' soaked. Another bath and some serious stern talking to was followed by a trip to Starbucks for hot chocolate. Momma needed a break folks.

But did momma think for one second about the consequences of a toddler and her own hot chocolate?

No she did not.

Comments

[Faith]

I swear it was me who mothered this child. She has Faith written all over her.

[Sarah]

Oh my, Oxiclean to the rescue.

She sounds like Jack. Playing alone = big trouble. LOL

[bitterbetty]

What a busy young lady.

You deserve a medal! ;)

[Pam]

Wow, it has been one of those days!

[saraeden]

Its so refreshing to see someone else has days like mine ... oh sorry this is my first visit here i should of said hello first !!!

Sara x

[cathy nash]

We've all had moments like that! When my youngest was just a tot she was forever getting into messes. Once she came running from the kitchen into the room where I was and announced, "I didn't touch anything." From previous experience, I rushed to see what she had left "untouched"!
Thank goodness for Tide.
Or there's the time I discovered her cleaning our toilet with my tooth brush. YIkes--not sure how many times before she'd helped with the housework and I didn't know....
Love your blog, btw.

[lauren]

Whoah. Time to start adding a special "make-mommy happier ingredient" to your chai lattes.

[Beth]

Oh, how I can relate! Have I told you about the Sharpie incident?? It happened not long after the eating of the Kerasal foot lotion incident. Hello, Poison Control??

Hang in there, Momma! :)

[amy]

as the mother of a two-year-old and a four-year-old....i know exactly how you feel! especially yesterday when i found an entire box of photos i had categorized by year and event strewn all over the living room floor.