Big Damn Hero

[jelazakazone]

So, I know that for some people this is just another day, but I'm feeling like a big damn hero today.

• spent at least 30 minutes booking tickets for kids to go to Adirondacks in Aug
• fed children
• got up at 7:30 after going to sleep after 1am
• folded laundry from several days ago
• unloaded and loaded dishwasher (at least twice, I think)

Comments

[aome]

I gave a ride home for one of Two's peers from daycamp. His grandma is a nurse on night shift and she was exhausted. This kid was in Two's 2nd-grade class and we also see them at the pool, so he knows us reasonably well and it wasn't really any extra effort to give him a ride. However, he's a very active, fidgety kid; he had headrests off repeatedly during the 15-min trip. Drove me nuts. But we all survived.

I think that's the extent of my heroism, aside from usual Mom duty. Oh, and I supported local farmers at one of the farmers' markets, buying apricots, blueberries, and wine. Does that count?

[jelazakazone]

Ok, that totally counts as heroism in my book. I would have had to stop the car and have words with the boy.

Oh, definitely! Yay for local!heroism:)

[aome]

I was on the highway, so stopping wasn't really an option. I did have to say, calmly and slowly, "L, I need you to listen to me." Which helped. For a few minutes. :-P I finally gave up when he removed his own headrest, which mattered a lot less to me than the front passenger seat, where MiniPlu was sitting. The rear headrest was high enough that it wasn't affecting his head, but the front seat did affect MiniPlu. (She was in front because they would have been really squished in back, MiniPlu doesn't trigger the airbag, and she's sat in front before for medical reasons - motion sickness - and it was a short trip.)

[jelazakazone]

Ah. Got it. Yeah, I would have given up at that point too.

I've had kids sit in the front too for short trips

Are you supposed to weigh 100 pounds before sitting in the front? I don't know what the parameters are. My kids are so small, they will be sitting in the back seat to learn to drive the car. j/k:D

[aome]

[jelazakazone]

I screened this comment because you used your daughter's name:D

I think it might be 12 here too, not sure. DD1 still doesn't weigh 60 lbs, so it's pretty much a non-issue. She loves her booster. It's not a fight at all for my kids to sit in their boosters.

My airbag sensor comes on if I have some book in the front seat, which I know weigh less than a kid. I wonder if it has to do with the pressure being more spread out with a person vs a bag of groceries hits one spot more concentratedly.