Showing posts with label MOTY award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOTY award. Show all posts
Monday, February 21, 2011
Have you lost your M.O.T.Y??? You just might win cool EM stuff for it!!
We both lost ours long ago. It's not somehting to celebrate, or brag about, or honestly ever even proudly admit to. But today, we are coming clean about it....so here it goes...we have both lost our;
"Mother Of The Year Award"
Here is how it all went down...
GENA: I lost mine when my daughter was about 3. Just a quick story about how it happened....
It was a normal day until something amazing happened! My daughter was overjoyed when a bird flew into the window, and to make a long story short, after her pro negotiator skills kicked in, she was able to convince me that it would be ok to hold the dead bird and lovingly name him "Petey". I could stop there and you would totally get why I lost my MOTY that day, but it gets better. I let her take him to a family event (I know! GASP) and we only "sent him home to be with his family" when my sister in law about had a conniption!!! I thought it was all over until I ended up on the phone with my mom at 2:00 AM because my daughter woke up with a raging fever!!! All I can remember is begging God to spare my baby girl because it was not her fault she ended up with the bird flu!!! OK, well she didn't have the bird flu, but let me tell you, lesson learned!!
LINDSAY: I can't tell you the exact date and time I first lost my M.O.T.Y.... there have been so many... too many for me to share... and still have friends that is:) From Pajama day for days on end and feeding my children ice cream and french fries for dinner, to piling blankets on top of their dirty sheets because I forget to wash them and my 3 year old asking when I planned to clean our dirty house...don't judge me!... I've pretty much got all the bases covered.
The most recent one that sticks out is last friday when I sent my oldest to school on a Friday without his school shirt on. Don't roll your eyes it's worse than it sounds. You see when you have a child with autism, schedules and routine are what makes life function... when one breaks the routine one should be ready for all hell to break loose... and it did. On this particular Friday Sawyer's Lincoln Lions shirt was at the bottom of a VERY large pile of laundry... so I decided to put a shirt the same color on him. To my surprise he didn't notice (although he was a bit off on his days because he had been out of school with pneumonia for over a week.) Anyway, I was pretty proud of making the switch with no meltdowns... no puke inducing screaming, no doors slamming or major trauma... But 20 minutes after they left, I saw my husband pull back in to the driveway... (while I was on facebook... never good)... He had to come retrieve the missing shirt because Sawyer realized it was Friday halfway to school and had a major meltdown in the car and the school parking lot. To make matters worse I had to pull the shirt out of the laundry pile, and it had obviously been stewing in it's own au-juice under the wet towels and was stinky and wrinkled... I sprayed some downy wrinkle release on it and threw it to my husband. He just looked at me, then took it back and steamed most of the smell and all of the wrinkles out of it... Is that the worst story I have to tell... MMMM NOOOO... but it is the most recent and one that won't get me too terribly judged... so there you go!!
Are you feeling brave??? Good. Here is what we want from you...
{We want to know how you lost your M.O.T.Y.}
"What is in it for me" you ask???
Only a set of the most amazing, adorable, and coolest must have
baby and toddler accessories on the planet!!!
So here is how it works. Think of your best MOTY moment (please not the one that would make Child Protective Services show up at your doorstep!) and post it in a comment below. And don't forget to have your friends join in so we can laugh at them too! We will pick the winner at the end of the week based on which one makes us pee our pants the most and you will get to pick out a set of your fav. Earth Monkey products! Cool!
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