Basic Mom Week in Review - 11/01/15

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

1. The Toys'R'Us holiday catalogue arrived. My children had it for about 15 minutes and returned it to me with nearly every item within circled.

Lesson: I think Santa should just bring socks and underwear this year because circling everything gives him no real direction as far as toys are concerned.

2. I had this conversation while my 2-year-old and I were playing with doll house toys with some new friends at the library:

Me (to a little boy we just met): What kind of pie do you like?

Little boy: Apple!

Me (to my 2-year-old): What kind of pie do you like?

My 2-year-old: Cake!

Lesson: In the words of Don Draper, "If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."

3. In the midst of about a million Halloween preparations, including painting a pumpkin to donate to my daughter's school, my 6-year-old spilled her entire cup of milk on the kitchen floor.

Lesson: This picture pretty much sums up my life.

4. In an attempt to get a decent picture during our pumpkin carving session, I was standing with a foot on each of our kitchen chairs, hovering over my family with my phone.

My husband cautioned me to be careful.

My 6-year-old chimed in with, "Yeah, that is NOT safe. You are just teaching Juliet to do that."

Lesson: Apparently, my 6-year-old listens to me after all. Only instead of doing as I say, she stores up what I say to use against me.

5. My 2-year-old, as usual, was very uninterested in having her picture taken on Halloween. She was looking at her feet or the grass or some other super interesting thing on the ground most of the time I was taking pictures. So, I asked her to, "Look up!" thinking maybe I could get one picture of my girls in their costumes where they are both looking in the general direction of the camera.

Nope: