Darnit! I am out of the running for ‘Mom of the Year’ again this year. My intentions were good. I had my child’s best interest in mind. But, sometimes, things go wrong.
My youngest has been learning about shadows in science. We have been having fun playing with our shadows. She especially likes, when the sun is just right, to make it look like she is taller than her dad. We have also made shadow pictures with toys and other junk on the driveway, charted the position of the sun and the length of shadows, and given our shadows names. It’s been a fun time. That’s why I decided to point out a particularly funny shadow as we were walking out of the grocery store yesterday evening.
She was walking in front of the cart and I saw the shadow.
“Look at that shadow!” I said. “It looks like the shopping cart is running over you.”
I point to the shadow and laugh. She stops in front of the cart for a closer look. I didn’t know she stopped. I stopped laughing when I heard the noise. I ended up running into her ankle with the wheel of the cart. She was not impressed. Actually, she was kinda pissed.
Luckily, I have the super supreme first aid kit in my car. It comes with a first aid guide. I turned to what I told her was the “cart scuff” section and read her the proper first aid treatment. It involved the placement of a huge Band-Aid. Everything turned out fine. Except now I’ll never get the ‘Mom of the year’ award. You just can’t go around scuffing your kid and expect to win that.
February 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
HA!? that’s all you got? you’re mom of the year in my book.
a few weekends ago, i was tying my shoe at the supermarket when the paloma pulled the cart down on herself AND the porkchop.
my father in law used to joke that my husband and his sibling were “the only two that survived”. now, i’m not so sure he was joking!
February 5th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Yikes! I’ve been paranoid about carts since my daughter took off her seatbelt and tried to topple out one day when she was about 11 months. I was bending over at the time. Now that I think about it, I may have been tying my shoe! Maybe they need to add a new warning to the carts.
Please tie and double knot shoes before placing child in cart :)
February 9th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I’m sorry to hear you are out of the running for Mom of the Year. I enjoyed the humour of the story. The shopping cart dimensions were a very funny touch.
February 9th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Glad you liked it. You can’t survive motherhood without a little humor. Your blog ( HOVlaneblog.com )is great as well. Thanks for stopping by.