Mom Fails

Yes,  my husband has a man bun. He ROCKED a willy wonka costume for Halloween, Gene Wilder hair included. 

Hey! It's Amanda, writing to you from Kentucky. The picture above is our most recent family pictures from last week. We look happy but what you don't see is I scheduled the event when we were in Chicago (CST) and we live in Kentucky (EST). So I thought I booked it for 10, put it in my calendar for 11, but it was really at 12!! The stars aligned and it turned out fine but could've been a disaster. I felt like a ding dong. Oh, and we missed music class TWICE the last 2 weeks because I forgot what day it was. And swimming lessons. send help!

Mom Fails. We all have them. Well, at least we THINK we all have them and we sure beat ourselves up about them. Let me give you some examples (if the above wasn't enough!):

The time I locked my baby in a hot car in Zions National Park when it was 105 degrees out and had to call 911. Poor girl screamed herself to sleep while she was sweating to death. The paramedic wanted to take her into the ER because she was so pale. Nope, that's just her skin #sorrykidthatisfromyourmom.

Or the time when my son didn't wear his shoes to the doctor's office. The freaking doctor's office! So nasty. Oh yes, and he is 3 and we were there for 2.5 hours.

Or the time when I let them all watch too much TV. Or they got hurt because I looked away for a second. Or when they ate too much sugar. Or I couldn't afford the expensive Halloween costume they wanted. Or make your house a magical oasis of fun kids toys AND cute decor. Or craft with them all the time. Or feed them all organic vegetables where they say please and thank you. Or, Or, Or.


The list could go on. Mom "fails" happen all the time. Truly, some of them are hilarious when I think back to them. Like when I told my kid to go get in the car but didn't warm him about the glass door and he ran straight into it. Everyone else felt bad and I couldn't stop laughing. I am a good mom, I swear. He was totally fine by the way.

Darling moms, take a deep breath.  I beat myself up for every little thing. I feel like a failure every single day. But you know what? All of those things I listed (and the list that is going through your mind) are not failures. We are human and we can't be 100% all the time. You know what would make it a real failure? If you didn't care.

But you do, or else you wouldn't feel the guilt, the pain, or lose sleep over it. Am I ruining my kids life?!? (You know you've said that to yourself 1 or 500 times).

Momma, don't you know that that's called winning? You are winning because you love. Your kids don't remember all of those times, or the fact that you let them eat an extra piece of candy instead of the broccoli. They love the heck out of us anyway. You care, so you win.

Mom "fails" will continue to occur because no one on this earth is perfect. What we do with those fails really defines us. So keep on chugging, keep on loving, and give yourself forgiveness and love because your sweet babies sure do.

Now, tell me a funny mom moment below because laughter cures any bad day!