Embarrassing Moments

Well I'm about to drop myself in it again! Today @mediocre_mum suggested I took a look at a post by Urbanvox and add my embarrassing moment.

Well I have so many to choose from it's difficult. Most people, thanks to @beachhut81 know about the Easter that I went to church with my skirt on inside out. My delightful son waited until it was all quiet and then asked me, very loudly if I knew. I spent the rest of the service trying to pull my top over the label at the back trying to disguise the fact.

Then of course there was the time I was breast feeding my first child. I was in my own home and the only person there was my mother in law. Normally I would leave the room and go discreetly feed my child but my mother in law said not to worry. As I released myself from my top my boob took on a mind of it's own and squirted milk across the room and over my mother in law. Now that was embarrassing.

It was more embarrassing as it had happened a few months after another incident that my mother in law was present at. I was pregnant at the time and out shopping with my mother in law. We were returning to the car park laden with shopping. The car was parked on the roof so we went up by lift. As I stepped out the lift there was a ping and within seconds my knickers were around my ankles. Now as I was pregnant it wasn't exactly easy to see what had happened but I knew by the sudden lack of ability to walk that something was wrong. My mother in law looked and almost wet herself laughing. I took a step forward , gave a flick of my foot and watched my knickers fly threw the air. They landed neatly on my shopping and I then ran to the car.

This story may have stayed between you me and the gate post or at least my mother in law and myself but she found it so funny that she told everybody when we got home.

There, that's 3 cringe worthy moments in a lifetime full of minor mishaps. I hope it has amused you slightly.

Bad Parenting Club

I have been asked by @mediocre_mum to join the bad parenting club She has written about some incidents and thought I might have a few to share! I am not a bad parent. I am just a little absent minded and a little accident prone!
It wasn't my fault that a few weeks ago I was crossing a busy road and dropped my youngest off the back of my bicycle in the middle of the road. I didn't mean to shut my middle child's hand in the car door either a few years ago. These things just happen!
I guess the first 'bad parenting' moment was when I forgot I had a child! I took my new baby to the shop round the corner with me. She was fast asleep in the pushchair but the pushchair didn't fit easily up the narrow aisles of the shop as they had had a delivery. The very nice lady at the check out suggested I leave the pushchair there whilst I got my shopping. I parked the pushchair and darted round the shop with my basket.
It was when I started walking home with bags of shopping I thought to myself it would be easier to hang the bags on the pushchair. Pushchair! Whoops. That would be the pushchair with my baby still parked by the check out in the shop! Lady at the counter was laughing when I walked back in. I had never been out of sight of the shop and she had been ready to call me back. She was just seeing when I would remember!!!
The second time I 'lost' a child was with my third. I was again a new mum and my husband was away. I had 3 children to deal with and was really tired. My son was asleep so I sat on sofa and fell asleep. When I woke up I went to check on the baby but he wasn't in the pushchair where I thought I had left him. I checked upstairs in the Moses basket but he wasn't there either. In a panic I searched the house for anywhere I may have left a baby!
He was nowhere in sight. I checked my doors and windows but they were all locked. I had done the school run and I had definitely bought him home! How on earth can you misplace a baby in your sleep. I was just on the point of calling a neighbour to help me when I heard a noise. The baby was definitely in the house! The noise was coming from the pushchair, the first place I had looked.
It turned out I had put the small child in the pushchair but not strapped him in. He was too small to move but he had slid down inside the cosy toes! I found the baby 'stood up' at the bottom of the cosy toes.Such a relief. ( You would have thought after that I would always strap children in but there have been several incidents of pushchair ejector seats going down kerbs!!!!)
There has only been 1 hospital trip caused by my 'bad parenting and 1 caused by my husband! The one by my husband was partially my fault. I caused the smoke detector to go off and my husband stepped backwards to blow at it. At the same time my toddling first child went to join in the smoke detector game. There was a collision and husband trod on child's leg. She lay there screaming unable to stand up. Off to hospital we went where small child saw a box of toys and ran across the room to them. A miraculous recovery!
My incident was with my son. I was a Pampered chef consultant at the time and had a huge crate containing my kit. I kept this out of reach of the kids, on top of the fridge. One evening I went to get the box down and didn't see small child behind. I swung round and hit the child in the eye. Being a bad parent I rubbed it better and left. The next day his eye was completely swollen. I got an emergency appointment at Dr's where I confessed to hitting him with the box. The doctor sent us straight to eye casualty but told me it wasn't my fault. He did actually mean that as it turned out son had a very rare eye infection and it was caught just in time to save his sight!The box injury was just a coincidence!
I suppose I was a bad parent when my middle child fell off a chair trying to dust the ceiling. She said her arm hurt but I made her eat her dinner with a knife and fork. She kept moaning so I agreed that if my Ann Summers delivery was postponed I would take her to hospital. It was and I did. Turned out she had broken her arm! ( I don't count that as a hospital trip caused by bad parenting as the accident wasn't my fault but the neglect may have been!!!!)

There have been several accidents that I had nothing to do with. My oldest fell down the stairs carrying my baby son and ran out the house screaming she had killed the baby. My youngest child, s a tiny baby had a dining room chair dropped on her head. These weren't my fault but maybe if I had been paying more attention they wouldn't have happened!

Accidents and minor mishaps are part of parenting. I don't think my family have suffered for it and I don't think I'm really a bad parent!

Something Special for My Birthday

Today is my birthday and I have done something special. Before I tell you what I need to tell you about my friends CaptainTom3 and MrsTom3. They are a married couple that I follow on twitter.
A few months ago I discovered I had a new follower on twitter. She had only sent 1 tweet and only followed one other person, her husband. Intrigued as to why she had started following me I struck up conversations with @mrstom3 and @captaintom3. It turned out that their son was suffering renal failure and needed a kidney transplant. It was @mrstom3 who was going to give her kidney to her son. She had joined twitter for something to do whilst sat at hospital with her son and for when she had the operation herself for some light relief. My son had been ill in the past and in hospital so I knew how boring it could be just sitting around so I was only too happy to drum up some more twitter followers and get a special support group going.
I'm not sure they knew that twitter could offer a great support service but I think they have found that it does. Even Duncan Bannatyne has taken the trouble to tweet and show an interest in @mrstom3 and the roller coaster ride she is on.
The transplant took place on 9th March and we have all followed the progress being made. It truly is a roller coaster with good news followed by bad news followed by good news followed by bad. This week it was discovered that the glandular fever virus had been in the donated kidney and so more worry for the family.
Before meeting the Toms online I hadn't really given much thought to transplants. My family are healthy and so it never crossed my mind. I know that if any of my family were taken ill in this way and I could help by being a living donor I would. I know if they were really ill and needed an organ that I couldn't donate I would be frantic with worry and wish for an organ to become available.
That set me thinking and so today, as a birthday present, I did something I should have done a long time ago. I registered as an organ donor. I hope that I die peacefully in my sleep of old age but if something dreadful should happen to me then I hope that something good can come of it. I hope that a frantic family can be helped. I've put it off for years because I've never been pushed into thinking about it. Captaintom3 wrote a blog about it which put it back in my mind.

If you'd like to give me a present for my birthday then register as an organ donor here .If you are all ready on the list then why not make a donation to kidney research via @mrstom3 at her just giving site