Brittney Spears would be proud.I write this fully knowing that I will be judged and labeled as a bad mom.
I am about to confess something that will probably get me lynched. We drove from Lexington, KY to Cinncinnati, OH then back to Lexington to pick up my aunt Betty from the airport. I left my car seat in another car so we went to Walmart so Felicia could buy another car seat. No, shopping at Walmart is not my confession, though it should be.
Anyway, while at Walmart we find a good carseat but they dont have any available so we take the floor model. The manager was being very accomodating, something that doesnt happen often at Walmart but I think he was just thankful that I wasnt suing him for the ladder left out in the baby section that fell on my daughter. (Actually, it hit the cart she was in and then hit her, thankfully the cart took the brunt of the fall). I was really mad, and I tried unsuccessfully to not let Mother Bear out. So Bev, the manager gave us the floor model plus discount. We run back to the van since we are running out of time. I told Felicia to keep on driving and I will install the car seat. Thinking that this would only take me a few minutes.
It's just too bad that everything I have planned out in my head doesnt turn out in real life. I got in a wrestling match with the car seat and it won. Belen was screaming wanting to get in her seat belt, I being so flustered threw a candy bar at her and let her go to town. I was in survival mode. No, letting my child eat a candy bar is not my confession, though it should be.
I finally gave up after muttering about a thousand sailor swear words under my breath. I took Belen in the back, held her and she fell immediately asleep. I laid her down and let her sleep like that the whole way.
Ok. I gave you all time to gasp, take all the oxygen in the room and curse me. Do you need more time or do you want me to go on and explain myself.
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You'll probably be surprised at my reply, given that I'm kind of known on bbc for being a carseat freak. But I'm really ok w/all that. Really. I mean, what parent hasn't done something at some point that isn't "the best thing I could possibly do for my child"? Hell, I rode in the back of pick-up trucks several times as a kid. Now who's country?
Wow. Just, WOW.
you will not be babysitting my kids ever again!
and, you should sue walmart
MUSH!!!! That was a one time Kentucky deal. It will never happen again. Not be hating on me!
you are one baaaaaaaaaad lady! alright, I have done it too!
We used to ride in the back on our van and fall asleep while on our cross country family vacations. Not that I think its 'okay' but I am happy nothing bad happened and I like this side of you that is revealing itself (the country side).
i'm not a mom but I'm pretty sure everyone has done this. Hey we grew up in the time when we didn't know what seatbelts were.
It's okay girl! I've done the same thing. Sometimes you just don't know what else to do, and things like that are just instinctual (sp?) you know?
Oprah once had a woman on her show who had taken her kids in a truck about two miles without seat belts or car seats and they were in an accident and one of the children died when they were thrown from the car. Oprah used her as this example of things that can never be forgiven, etc.. I HATED that show so much, because I didn't think that mother should have been attacked like that. Sure, it's good practice to put your kids in a car seat, but if you DO get in an accident the ONE time you don't, I'm thinking it's more an act of God than anything else. I was so pissed that Oprah was so awful to that poor woman. She didn't deserve it.
I can honestly say that if something had happened to Belen then they would've had to have a funeral for two people. I would never forgive myself. But I did what I did and publicly announced it to say, "I messed up and I never want to make that mistake again"
I love you, Marie!!!! So many confessions in one blog post-- wow! What a night, eh?
Marie - I was totally kidding - you know that right? Remember when I took Violet all around town doing tons of errands and realized at our last stop that she had been sleeping soundly the whole time in her car seat, and she wasn't even buckeled? Oops! Sure glad nothing happened that day
Chocolate? The horror! ;)
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