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Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 11:10:00 AM
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raspberry331
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Embarrassing Mommy moments ... you know you've had them! We have so much to balance that sometimes one of the balls we're juggling comes crashing down. I thought it might be fun to share some of our more cheek-reddening mishaps.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 12:29:09 PM
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pbaribeault
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A Winter Outing
Older daughter in car, safely strapped in to car seat. (check)
Car warmed up, snow brushed off, sidewalk shoveled. (check)
Diaper bag in passenger seat, fully equipped for baby's needs. (check)
All library books found, none overdue, in passenger seat in environmentally friendly cloth bag. (check)
Front door locked behind me. (check)
Me in driver's seat, foot on break hand on gear-shift, ready to go. (check)
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Baby safely strapped into car seat
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Still in the kitchen.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 4:15:28 PM
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This happened when my dd was about 9 months old (14 yrs ago)
I parked my car in the street, outside the Christian Bookshop where I wanted to go - and for some unknown reason, handed my car keys for my dd to play with, shut the car door with the handle up (which locked it) - in other words my car was locked, with my dd inside it with the keys. 
I first called the police, who said they didn't do that sort of thing (break in) anymore, because of the risk of being sued for causing damage , phoned the AA - a breakdown service - who said they'd be there in 90 mins  , and in the end phoned a locksmith who arrived in 10 mins, broke in for me surprisingly easily and causing no damage - and presented me with a bill for £30 - which is $60 
Btw, my dd was totally unfazed by any of this and was quite happily playing with the keys and chattering to herself the whole time, lol.
< Message edited by manda59 -- 4/19/2008 4:23:14 PM >
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 4:21:06 PM
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I did something like that when DD1 was just a couple weeks old. I had stopped at McD's on the way to my postpartum check up. I put my lunch on the front seat and tossed my purse in and locked the door. THen walked around to put DD's carseat in the base and locked her in.
Fortunately my husband worked in the same town and was able to open the door. However, he was running errands for work so someone at his office was calling all the places he went to see if he had been there yet.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 4:40:08 PM
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Does it have to be mom's fault? 
We were in Seattle on vacation. Our son was 3 and I was pregnant with child #2. While wandering through the Museum of Flight, we split up for a bit--I went one way, and dad took son another way. As I'm wandering around, I hear an alarm going off, and I turn to see that the glass elevator is stuck between two floors--and SHOCK--there's my son on it all alone!!!!!!
Where is Mr. Cranky?  Not in sight.
I run across the museum floor to the elevator, and then find Mr. Cranky still wandering around engrossed in reading the descriptions of planes. Then he notices our son in the glass elevator, and all the commotion.
Our son was crying and frantically pushing all the buttons. A worker was standing on the second floor patiently yelling at him which button to push, but a frantic 3-yr-old gets a bit confused of course. So much pressure!
Bravely, he finally understood what the man was trying to tell him, and pushed the right button which brought him to second floor and stopped the alarm.
Funny to remember! But embarrassing at the time. 
Edit--I guess this post doesn't really fit this: We have so much to balance that sometimes one of the balls we're juggling comes crashing down. But I'll keep it here anyway.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 5:04:55 PM
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ORIGINAL: isaacsmom
...and even got us a new ducky.
Makes it all worthwhile!
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 5:12:38 PM
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WhiteRoseBlessings
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ORIGINAL: pbaribeault
A Winter Outing
Older daughter in car, safely strapped in to car seat. (check)
Car warmed up, snow brushed off, sidewalk shoveled. (check)
Diaper bag in passenger seat, fully equipped for baby's needs. (check)
All library books found, none overdue, in passenger seat in environmentally friendly cloth bag. (check)
Front door locked behind me. (check)
Me in driver's seat, foot on break hand on gear-shift, ready to go. (check)
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Baby safely strapped into car seat
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Still in the kitchen.
ROFLOL!!!
Sorry y'all, I have no embarrassing mom stories to tell. I'm not even a mom. But this thread sure is entertaining!
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 6:52:49 PM
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This one is not for the faint of heart.
I was waiting in line at the gas station, wanting to pay for my stuff. An elderly woman was in front of me, asking for directions and the clerk was chatting up a storm as she helped her with the map. I was getting ticked because of the wait, not to mention that I was sure this woman had passed some really bad gas as she leaned over the counter - it smelled is if she were sick, and I was getting grossed out. After a few minutes of them chattering, I finally spoke up and said "Can I pay for this so I can leave"?
As I left, I realized that the sickening odor was coming from my son (who was about 1 and a half at the time), who had just *REALLY* blown out his diaper, dripping on the floor b/c he was wearing shorts.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 7:09:23 PM
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That happened to me too!
My dd was potty-trained-but-under-surveillance, and we had just ordered at McD's when she had a urine and diherrea combination event right on the floor, through her panties. It was green and foul and it just kept coming and coming!
OH MORTIFYING!!!
I couldn't do anything but stand and stare. I managed to say sorry, that they'd need a mop and ran with her to the washroom. I actually threw out her panties & shorts rather than try and deal with them. We had lunch in a diaper. Quickly.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 8:42:05 PM
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A friend of mine went shopping with me and my kids. We were at Sam's Club and it took a while. She was pushing a cart with two of my kids in the front of it, and one of them peed on her feet. She hasn't gone shopping with me since then.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 8:51:50 PM
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Other embarassing moments involve more than one occasion when we were at a mall or grocery store, and the kids would see a very obese person (when they were 3-4 years old). I think only once they actually said something out loud before I could stop them.
One woman in a wheelchair and on oxygen scared my son to death when he was about 7 or 8 when she told him (in her deep cigarette voice) that he'd better not start smoking or he might end up like her. More amusing to me than embarrasing, but I thought it tied in to the stories here!
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 9:11:28 PM
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Now, Dear . . . remember when we're with someone, it's not polite to pee on them.
Ya know, we really don't stress that enough to our children these days!
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 9:30:02 PM
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Other embarassing moments involve more than one occasion when we were at a mall or grocery store, and the kids would see a very obese person (when they were 3-4 years old). I think only once they actually said something out loud before I could stop them.
My son did this.
We were queuing for a cashier in the bank, things were very quiet, and my ds (aged 3) piped up with "Mummy, is that lady fat?"
I knew if I didn't react, he'd ask louder, but I also didn't want to look around and see if I could see who he meant, nor did I want to ask him who he meant.
I went for the evasive cowardly response: "I don't know, sweetheart" - and thankfully he left it at that. 
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 9:32:28 PM
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Ellie-Mae
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LOL! It really never occured to me to tell them not pee on someone else.
Although, I am not sure that it would have made much difference. Maybe I should have made m kids wear "Caution: Potty training in session" Shirts.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 11:10:44 PM
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Other embarassing moments involve more than one occasion when we were at a mall or grocery store, and the kids would see a very obese person (when they were 3-4 years old). I think only once they actually said something out loud before I could stop them.
My son did this to me just this past week. I could have died. His little brother started saying "humpty dumpty" when he saw a very large man, and Asrat yells loudly "Where's humpty dumpty??? Oh, there he is!!" and points at the large man shrieking with hysterical laughter. Oh, for a hole in the earth to sink into.  I gave him a very serious lecture through the rest of the store, about how hurtful that was. I was hoping the man would leave by the time we were finished, but when we got to the cashier, there he was. As mortified as I was, it was good because it gave Asrat a chance to apologize. The man was very gracious and shook hands with him.
Something must be up with him this week. His self-control is out the window and he actually had a foot-stomping, screaming (but thankfully shortlived) temper tantrum today.  Of course that was in public too.
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RE: Embarrassing Mommy moments - 4/19/2008 11:56:52 PM
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When DS was two and I was pregnant with #2 I was in a public restroom and had him in the stall with me. Since I was late in the pregnancy I was using panty liners for those lovely little coughing and sneezes "gifts" your bladder provides. DS happened to catch a glimpse and loudly, way too loudly, states "you wear a diaper, too, Mama?!" Luckily I only heard snickering from one other stall, the others were mercifully empty.
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Yeah, I was pretty humiliated!! Luckily my friend just said, "Don't they just make ya proud?"