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.