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Oh, the crazy “mommy moments” just keep happening around here. While I don’t post about them too often, rest assured that they make up the majority of my life. And, after all, I WAS nominated as the hottest Mommy Blogger. (What’s that? You haven’t voted yet? Well, here. I’ll make it easy for you. Click here.) So I guess from time to time I need to prove my Momminess. Right now, I will highlight 3 moments from yesterday.

1. I put my happy cherubic little baby on the floor upstairs so that he could roll around and scoot to his little heart’s content. Then I ran downstairs to grab something, and in the meantime I heard, “*shuffle-shuffle*scoot-scoot*THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD*splat*WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH*” In zero seconds flat, he’d managed to make it to the other side of the room and fling himself down the stairs, causing me to feel like the world’s best mom. He wasn’t terribly hurt, besides a little bruise on the head, but it scared us both real good. “I only left him alone for a SECOND.” “Yeah, yeah, lady. We’ve heard that one before. You’re gonna have to come with us, now. And we’re giving your children to the nice lady down the street with all the cats.” You KNOW that’s what’s gonna happen one of these days.

2. Once the littlest boys were in bed for their naps, Bubba and Fluffy went upstairs to play while I, well, blogged. After a little while, I heard strange noises in the bathroom so I went to check it out. I found Fluffy, in the bottom half of her swimsuit, and Bubba, completely naked, in the bathtub, which they had filled and dumped all the shampoo into (besides the shampoo that was dumped all over the floor in the process, of course) obviously hoping for bubbles, but instead getting just icky water. And then… I heard extra giggling. Who else was giggling? Upon closer examination, I found the NEIGHBOR GIRL hiding behind the shower curtain, wearing a swimsuit, as though she’d been planning all along to come on over and jump in our bathtub. I DID NOT KNOW THAT THE NEIGHBOR GIRL HAD COME OVER AT ALL. Rather than throttling them all, which is what I was initially tempted to do, I handled it with great dignity, fetching Blake’s swimsuit and the rest of Madeleine’s and telling them DON’T SPLASH. Am I cool, or what?

3. Since my little princess is about to start Kindergarten, I’d really hoped to get Madeleine into a charter school rather than the regular nastiness that is the public school system, so I applied her to all of them that I could think of, but all of my attempts had been thwarted. Kindergarten is the hardest year to get a kid into a decent school–all the spots fill up SO quickly. I’d resigned myself to Public School. But LAST NIGHT! An email came from the charter school in the town we’re moving to in a couple of weeks–I don’t even remember applying to this school, because we never expected to move to this particular city! Anyway, they had ONE POSITION open up and her name was drawn! I had until 10:00 p.m. (less than four hours from when the email was sent–good thing I have no life and happened to be online!) to respond and accept the position or it would be given to someone else. I’m SO EXCITED! See, if this email had come just a week ago, I would have thrown it away, because there was NO WAY we were moving to that city, therefore the slot would have been wasted on us. So the announcement came at just the absolute perfect moment! It just feels like another concrete sign that we made the right decision. Yeay!

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