MacGuyver Mom

I am just amazed at how far I've come as a Mom. I can still remember my reaction when my firstborn had a diaper blowout, peed through all the blankets we owned and puked all over me within 24 hours of being home from the hospital. I was doing laundry in the middle of the night. I figured a box of wipes would last us at least a year, but for sure more than a day!

In the early days, I would just look at the mess and not know what to do. I was shocked, frozen. It got better as the years went on. By the time there were three and I was nursing one while the others used the potty chair IN THE KITCHEN (don't ask) and then proceeded to knock the contents all over the floor I just freaked out a little on my way to get a towel and kept right on nursing.

Well, now I am a pro. I have joined the amazing ranks of mothers who can take a totally disastrous mess and use whatever they might have in their purse or diaper bag to fix it. It's kind of McGuyver-like.

We were in a store and Maren peed all over the floor. In one split second I grabbed the toy she was holding and looked for a clean up station. When I didn't find one, I pulled a diaper out of my purse and used that to mop up the floor. Genius? Well, it may have been genius to actually have it ON the child. But still, problem solved.

At supper that night, I had a child sitting on my lap when she began to puke. Of all the days to buy her the red Gatorade she wanted. We stepped out on to the deck to save the floor. I forgot to clean the deck off but it rained later, so it all worked out in the end.

Sometimes I try to be prepared and have kleenex on hand for bloody noses and snotty sneezes or paper towels for spills, extra wipes, diapers, clothes. But where's the fun in that?

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