This week's prompt:
Tell about a time when I was an absent-minded mommy.
Hmmmm, well, you show me a time when I wasn't an absent-minded mommy and I'll show you a time when I wasn't a mommy.
Okay, but the time that jumps immediately to mind...
Several weeks ago Lil Mootz and I ate a very late lunch. I'm talking like three to four o'clock-ish. So dinnertime came and went. I wasn't even close to being hungry and I knew Lil Mootz was fine also, so I didn't bother to make us any dinner.
Around normal bedtime Lil Mootz started getting really fussy, so I figured he was just getting sleepy. I took him upstairs, gave him a bath (which he fussed the whole way through and he NEVER does that because he LOVES bath time), put on his PJammies, and fed him his bottle. He scarfed down his bottle and then kept fussing. It was sort of weird for him, but I just figured, "Wow. This kid is really tired." I put him in his crib and went down to watch some TV.
As I was sitting on the couch I could hear Lil Mootz screaming like crazy, but I just chalked it up to not wanting to be left alone. After a few minutes I was like, "Damn. I'm hungry."
As I start making my very late dinner it dawns on me, "Holy crap, Lil Mootz is probably starving! Which would definitely explain the screaming."
However, like the upstanding mother I had already proven to be that evening, I then proceed to stand in my kitchen and debate with myself:
"Lazy Tired This is Why I Participate In This Meme" Mommy: But he's already in bed. Do I really want to get him up and get him all messy with eating?
"I Really Do Love My Kid" Mommy: Your child's starving and your worried about getting messy? Are you seriously having this conversation with yourself?
Needless to say, I made Lil Mootz a late dinner which he ate in about three minutes flat before falling asleep while sitting in his high chair. I was still eating my dinner and so, at that point, I figured letting him sleep in his high chair until I was done eating wasn't any worse than what I had already accomplished that evening.
What is your absent-minded Mama Guilt moment?
8 comments:
HAHA oh wow, so glad I'm not the only one! I'm so absent-minded. Its horrible.
My absent mindedness is evident with diaper changes. My son will be crabby and pulling on my arm and I'll try everything else (feeding, burping, etc) until finally it dawns on me that he's pooped. Once he's changed it's all better, but that always comes to me as the last resort; I don't know why!
aw poor thing! haha
I do that quite often with snack time. I will be wondering why Grace is being so cranky and then will realize it is almost lunch time and she never had a snack!
Ha ha ha! I have so been there too! It's hard to decide what to do when they're already in bed.
Thanks for linking up!
This has happened to me. I go to bed with my 3 year old, hear his stomach growl and realize oops he didn't eat. But, I do ask if he wants something, but he always says no.
Have a great week!
I'm so absent minded sometimes, I can't even imagine what I'll be like if I ever have a child.
I take several classes online in addition to some on campus, and often when I've procrastinated I am forced to hold 48 hour marathon sesions to catch up. During one of said sessions I was making my kids quesadilla's when I remembered a note I wanted to make in an essay I was writing. I went to "quickly" make the note, and emerged an hour later to see my kids devouring plain flour tortillas. Oops.
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