Motherhood

Denis left very early this morning for a business trip.  He’ll be back in the wee hours of next Sunday morning.  Now I get to play single mom to two kids and two dogs.  Wish me luck!

We got up this morning and went to Simply Crepes for breakfast.  Aside from a decent wait (they don’t take reservations) it was a nice time.  For as fancy as they look, they have a really great kids menu.

And I got a lovely bouquet of flowers from Denis and the girls:

You know, being a mom can be tough. But so far I’ve found there’s nothing I can’t deal with if it involves one of my kids, even if it’s something that as an outside observer I’d never be able to handle.

Such as getting puked on in the middle of the checkout lane at Target.

If you had asked me yesterday, I’d have said I’d never be able to handle that. Instead, I calmly asked for an empty plastic bag when I realized it was about to happen (unfortunately it was just a half a second too late), then asked for some tissues to clean up the kid, apologized for leaving them a mess (I did offer to help clean it, but they said they’d handle it), and drove my poor sick baby home to clean her up and snuggle her.

Unfortunately, she’s going to miss her Thanksgiving celebration at preschool tomorrow, and she’s pretty upset about that. But I learned today that I can be a strong, calm mom when it counts.