Basic Mom Week in Review - 07/30/17

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

1. While reading That Stinks!: A Punny Show-and-Tell out loud to my family, I said "avocado toast" instead of the red-circled text below.

Lesson: My millennial brain won't even let me read to my family without thinking about brunch.

2. This interaction while I was out of town with my mom and my husband took the kids to the library:

3-Year-Old: My mom is with my grandma.

Librarian: Oh, that's nice.

Husband: Yeah, my wife and her mom went up north for a few days.

Librarian: Oh, you're so brave!

Lesson: I'm glad my husband told me this story - I'd forgotten how heroic it is for a man to spend time with his own offspring.

3. This conversation with my brother-in-law (and my 3-year-old, whom I didn't even know was listening):

Me: I was only gone for four days, but she seems so different.

Brother-In-Law: She grew up!

Me: I know! She is taller, her voice sounds different . . .

3-Year-Old: Yeah, cause I got cooler.

Lesson: Well, she certainly didn't get any more modest.

4. My uncle and his new wife gave out donuts as favors at their wedding celebration, and when my grandma (bless her heart) saw the label on the front, she asked:

"Does that less than 3 mean anything?"

Lesson: Karma is going to get me when I am 80 years old and my grandkids laugh at me for writing out their birthday cards in old-fashioned English instead of the common-tongue, Emoji.

5. This conversation when my 3-year-old brought her naked Monster High doll to me:

3-Year-Old: Can you put her clothes back on?

Me: Sure. Why did you take her clothes off?

3-Year-Old: I was massaging her back.