it's my own fault. all of it. and i have no one to blame but ... karma.

The very first thing yesterday morning:

rio: Mommy. My ears hurt ...

me: [instantly awake and in a sweat with prickly fear of the first earache] Okay honey. Can you tell me where it hurts? Or how it hurts?

rio: [standing next to my bed holding a pilfered pack of Big Red from our last plane trip] Um, well, I could just have some gum to feel my ears better ...

The very first thing this morning:

rio: Mommy. Melanie [pre-school teacher] says that I can too wear dark wipstick to school. Dark wipstick is beautiful for my wips....

I have got to put every motherfucking thing I own on higher shelves.....

4 comments:

justme said...

thanks for comment. much appreciated.

you said you go for 2 hours to emdr ? what is that ???

the slackmistress said...

I wore blue eyeshadow to my first day of kindergarten as I told my mom that girls shouldn't leave the house sans makeup. When I saw the other girls weren't wearing makeup, I conceded that I could wait a wee bit.

Alice said...

haa. did the gum heal her ears, as she hoped? :-)

Menchuvian Candidate said...

Oooh, welcome to my world. I hope you got your shots, and, yes, packing valium is always recommended.

Sidenote to Alice: I totally read that as "did the gum seal her ears..." which would make total sense to me given that the first thing my daughter does with a nice chewed up wad is look for someplace weird to stick it. Except, of course, for last time, when she stretched it out and made a necklace. loverly.