{"id":2325,"date":"2013-03-16T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2013-03-16T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:28:21","slug":"missing-obvious-im-oh-joy-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Missing the Obvious: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Back for More & Oh, Joy! There Are Two Parts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"100_2455\"<\/a>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing like motherhood to illuminate your incompetencies and to remind you of the high likelihood that at any given time, strange substances might become affixed to your personage<\/a> or your offspring\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personage.<\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how my latest reminder went down. One morning recently, I took the small people to school and then went to talk to one of their teachers. As I was leaving, I noticed something on my younger son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face as he stood outside his classroom. I still have no clue what it was, but it looked rather like peach baby food. To my knowledge, he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a baby food source\/dealer, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what the food-like substance actually was. From a distance, it was hardly noticeable as the color didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t contrast sharply with his skin. But up close, it was obvious and definitely textured.<\/p>\n

On my word, I asked him to go to the nearby restroom to wash off the food-like substance, and with my own eyes<\/i>, I watched him walk toward the restroom before I turned and left.<\/p>\n

Fancy how I freaked out I was<\/del> my surprise, then, when at home later that afternoon, I noticed that the food-like substance was still on his face. Naturally, he claimed that he had washed the food-like substance off his face when I asked, despite the fact that the food-like substance was still clearly on his face<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It was one of those really fruitful conversations that makes you seriously contemplate the possibility of your own insanity. Since we are on the subject of insanity, you know about Einstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definition of insanity, right? The whole thing about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?<\/p>\n

Yup, I did it, with full knowledge of the aforementioned definition.<\/p>\n

Sighing as only a mother can, I asked him to wash it off again and, as I left the room, with my own eyes<\/i> I watched him walk toward the powder room.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember what I did the rest of that day, but it was something where I left the small people under LCB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supervision (an idea still in its conceptual stage) and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t return until after they were in bed.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, the next morning was a flurry of activity (with yours truly stumbling half awake through most of it) and so it was that after school as I loaded the small people into the minivan, I noticed that the food-like substance from yesteryear was still on my son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to note here that my son showers every morning before school, so either the food-like substance survived at least one shower or my son has been fake-showering. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disturbing to contemplate this.<\/p>\n

And, in case you are slow on the uptake, that means my son went to school for two full days with a food-like substance on his face.<\/p>\n

Specifically, he went to school with the same <\/i>food-like substance on his face both days.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

As it turns out, however, the apple didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fall too far from the tree, because I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve now one-upped him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing like motherhood to illuminate your incompetencies and to remind you of the high likelihood that at any given time, strange substances might become affixed to your personage or your offspring\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personage. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how my latest reminder went down. One morning recently, I took the small people to school and then went to talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1430,1431,1117,1428,1429],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-parenting","tag-dealing-with-messy-eaters","tag-embarrassing-parent-moments","tag-island-parenting-2","tag-parenting-boys","tag-when-kids-get-food-stuck-on-their-face"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}