Mommy Fail!

Want to know what's more complicated than raising a baby? Figuring out how to put together all their crap (or put it back together if you happen to take it apart.)

Silas is getting big. No, I mean really big. I keep forgetting to adjust the straps on his car seat. Who thinks about that until they go to buckle the kiddo in?

When we were on our way out the door to our play date last night, I felt like the car seat straps could not wait another moment. It did not look all that complicated. So, I set about taking the thing apart and very carefully laid all the buckles down in the exact way I had taken them off....and then my dogs tore through the area sending my carefully laid out buckles into upheaval. What I thought would be a five minute project stretched into a thirty minute project. Each time I would declare success, I would realize one of the buckles was upside down or inside out and have to take the damn thing apart again.

Needless to say, Silas grew impatient with me long before I was finished with the task. The shame I would feel in calling to cancel the play date ("Hi, I can't get my son's car seat back together, so we're confined to the house until he's big enough to travel without one.") motivated me to press onward.

I'm happy to report that Si's car seat is (finally) properly adjusted to fit him and that I will never assume I'm intelligent enough to do something so simple again with only a five minute window.