On Stupid Accidents, Poor Choices, or Career Pitfalls

I recently found myself tweeting this:

Stuck my finger in poo. Serves me right. She warned me (with many tears and wailing):  "Norie, I have a big problem. I pooped!"

Unfortunately, I didn't believe her. Little lady A has some constipation/gas issues. Next time I won't rush to discredit her. NEXT time I'll be sure to be more careful when I try to prove her assertion. Call it an accident, a poor choice, or a pitfall--whatever it was, I'd say it was just plain gross.

On nanny.nora fail: episode 2

I know you were all looking forward to another installment of: nanny.nora fail. Cause let's face it, who DOESN'T like to hear confirmation that they're not the only one who does silly things in this world. Yesterday I took the kids to school and back. When we were getting out of the car R was playing with the overhead light switch. We have talked many times how this is a "no, no" and in order to ease the temptation, we generally keep the override switch on "off" to avoid a dead  battery. (This HAS happened before, but not to me.) Unfortunately, when we do that, it's really hard to see as the garage is windowless. It's just plain dark.

So R and I have our talk and I proceed to the front of the car to make all the lights be permanently off. I must have gotten distracted and forgotten to check that they went off, because when we came down today NOTHING would work. The automatic doors were frozen shut and the engine made absolutely no sound when I turned the key. So there I sat, realizing my error and feeling like a dolt.

Thankfully the Cs have AAA and within an hour they had the car running again. (STILL feeling like a dolt.)

When we called they asked:

"Isn't this the car we've serviced here before...?"

How embarrassing! All I can do is laugh and shake my head. It's just one of those days...

On nanny.nora Fail

I make mistakes. Gasp! I know you're surprised I'm admitting this, but it's true. I try to always be 4 steps ahead of my charges. I attempt to for see all the possible outcomes of whatever choice we are making. I find this is the best way to prevent melt-downs and serious injuries. However, I will admit that this does lead me to be on the more strict side of controlling what the kids do. Maybe when they aren't my kids I can let go a bit more, but since I'd like to avoid lawsuits, I try to bring everyone home in one piece. ;-)

I was feeling adventurous the other day while picking the triplets up from preschool. There was a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. They were wearing their snow boots. They asked, nay BEGGED, me to let them stomp around in the snow for a bit before we went home. Normally I would have said no. It was late, they were hungry and tired, and nap time was fast approaching. However, one of their friends was already enjoying the whiteness, so I gave in, thinking we'd strip off any wet clothes as soon as we got home...should anyone take a tumble. Little did I know, it would be more complicated than that.

They were all bundled up, but sans gloves. It went well for about 3 min. Then R fell. He shook it off and continued stomping. Phew. I thought I'd dodged the bullet. Their friend took a tumble next and began to cry about how cold HIS glove-less hands were. Then all heck broke loose. Within 30 seconds I had all 3 babies crying and snowy-up-the-back as they all slipped and fell on their butts. I tried distraction. I tried making it funny and telling them to shake it off. No luck. The boys wanted me to pick them up. A was heading to the car alone. It was chaos. I slipped one of my gloves on each of the boys hands in the hopes that would appease them. They  cried cause I didn't stop to put their fingers in the holes. They cried harder cause they each only had one glove. A was content with my scarf wrapped around her neck, but getting the 3 of them to the car was insane! From then until nap time everyone was whiny and sensitive. I had to laugh. Try to do something nice and it always comes back to bite you in the tush.

Oh well. Next time, no gloves = no snow. And now you know. nanny.nora makes mistakes too.