Parenting Can Require Smell Proof Masks and a Glove or Two

 

Being a mom can certainly be a shitty situation at times. My daughter has a one year old and a four year old and yesterday was quite an eventful day. Felix came home from school after he threw up. Poor little guy had a tummy bug. 

Let me back up. So Natalie and I were talking about how to declutter and how to know if you should keep something or get rid of it. She is a family of four in a six hundred fifty square foot apartment. Not a lot of room for all the stuff you need with kids. She told me someone told her to give every item the poop test. That if said item was covered in poop would you clean it or throw it away. If the answer is to toss it don’t wait. Just get rid of it now. That sort of makes sense and now back to the story at hand. 

As we were talking, Felix had a bathroom emergency that made us hang up. Natalie called back and shared that he had a blow out diarrhea and poop was everywhere in the bathroom. Auggie her toddler was in danger of getting into the whole disaster so she scooped him up to take him into the living room. What she failed to notice was that the stinky mess was also in the hallway. She slipped and the both of them went down into the brown abyss. She finally got Auggie settled with toys and Felix in the tub and began the cleanup. Her bladder wasn’t what it used to be before having two kiddos so her own piddle to the madness. 

Oh the joy of motherhood. These are the moments we must chuckle to avoid crying. It is also important to put these moments on paper so we don’t forget the details of just how messy parenting can get. Natalie is a great writer and I hope she will recount this adventure in her own words but I am here to document for her just in case. How was your day yesterday? Was it as aromatic as the Madlem’s household. 

She called me later that evening and told me she gave up and threw the bathroom rug away. Dragging it downstairs to the communal laundry didn’t seem like it was worth it. So we had come full circle in our communication. She now knew exactly that she wouldn’t save a rug that was covered and smelly. Hmmmm, perhaps she should have thrown it out earlier. Just a thought. 

In Him,

Joyfuld