Basic Mom Week in Review - 09/11/16

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

1. My 2-year-old became a 3-year-old!

Lesson: People will eat cake no matter how much the birthday girl spit on it while attempting to blow out her candles.

2. Eighteen kids were in and out of the birthday-party bounce house for several hours without a problem. I was in there for about 3 minutes before I collapsed one of the sides and got stuck like a turtle on its back between the collapsed side and the bottom of the bounce house.

Lesson: It's a bad idea to lean against the side of a bounce house. (Especially if you are three times the size of a kid.)

3. This sibling struggle while riding in the car:

3-Year-Old: [suddenly starts screaming and crying like she is in pain/someone is torturing her]

Me: Honey, what's wrong?

3-Year-Old: I don't want her to look out my window!

Lesson: Kids are ridiculous.

4. We got the kids some Chicken McNuggets for the beginning of our 5-hour drive home from Chicago. 

My 3-year-old promptly fell asleep.

When she woke up an hour and a half later, the first thing she said was, "Where are my chicken nuggets?"

Lesson: This kid has her priorities straight.

5, This insightful conversation with my 3-year-old:

Me: What's Daddy's job?

3-Year-Old: Work.

Me: And what's Mommy's job?

3-Year-Old: Cleaning up stuff.

Lesson: I'm torn between feeling happy that all of my "cleaning up stuff" doesn't go unnoticed and feeling depressed because  . . . well, that's a pretty accurate job description.