How not to get anything actually done: Cleaning up the kitchen while the children are eating dinner – Seat both children in their highchairs and dispense dinner – Notice a pile of clean dishes that need to be put away – Pick a frying pan off the top and put it away – Notice that the cheese needs to be put away – Look for the ziplock bag for the cheese – Get a new bag – Put cheese away – Notice that the baby has run out of food – Grab more veggies for her – Get watermelon for C – Notice that the dishes still haven’t been put away, head back to the sink – Realize that hamburger patty needs to be flipped – Flip patty – Notice baby has run out of food again and is whining – Sit down to feed the baby strained peas – Look for wash cloth to clean strained peas from the baby’s face, hands, and highchair – Get water for C – Clean up strained peas – Get hamburger patty – Cut up hamburger patty – Tell C that she has to eat it; she asked for it – Find applesauce for baby – Find spoon for baby – Attempt to shovel applesauce into whiny baby’s mouth – Wipe applesauce from baby’s cheeks, chin, and forehead – Tell C that she doesn’t get animal crackers until she eats hamburger – Tell C to slow down – Remember that baby needs medicine – Mix medicine into spoonful of applesauce – Distract baby long enough to get spoonful into her mouth – Get C animal crackers – Leave Little L in highchair to try to get more dishes put away – Pull Little L out of highchair to stop the screeching – Put Little L on kitchen floor – Put a saucepan away – Notice green stuff next to Little L’s foot – Wonder how she spit up something she never ate – Realize that the green sludge is coming from her diaper… and that she’s wallowing in it – Scream for M to come help – Hastily clean poop off the floor – Strip baby and carry her to the bathroom – Run the bath – Bathe the baby – Help C get into the bath – Take the baby out of the bath and get a clean diaper on her now clean tush – Give squeaky clean almost naked baby to M – Search for a clean onesie – Get C out of the bath – Head to the kitchen to get C and Little L their sippy cup and bottle – Notice that the pile of clean dishes is virtually intact – Give up on ever putting away the dishes, oh well, at least they’re clean – Go get the girls ready for bed
Wow. Totally sounds like my house. I mat just have to post a similar piece one day soon! Did you ever get the dishes put away? I am lucky enough to have a teen who’s job it is to make sure all dishes are put away every day. It rocks.
Sounds VERY familiar. My husband likes to recite a quote from “A Christmas Story” whenever we have a meal, as I’m running around getting everyone their drinks, napkins, seconds, thirds, fourths, etc: “My mother had not had a hot meal for herself in fifteen years.” Only a mom can truly appreciate a hot meal.
OMG, this was SO funny.
You BEAUTIFULLY captured one of the most challenging aspects of being a mom: never being able to focus on a single task and bring it to completion.
Thank you for a good laugh. 🙂
Wow. Totally sounds like my house. I mat just have to post a similar piece one day soon! Did you ever get the dishes put away? I am lucky enough to have a teen who’s job it is to make sure all dishes are put away every day. It rocks.
Sounds VERY familiar. My husband likes to recite a quote from “A Christmas Story” whenever we have a meal, as I’m running around getting everyone their drinks, napkins, seconds, thirds, fourths, etc: “My mother had not had a hot meal for herself in fifteen years.” Only a mom can truly appreciate a hot meal.