I am such an idiot sometimes. My daughter likes apple-cherry baby food. I don't get it for her very often, since she is almost three. So today she was being really good at the store and politely asked for it so I got it for her. We get home and I can't peel the foil off with my fingers so I use my teeth, and some gets in my mouth....and I am allergic to cherries. So I spit it out, but it didn't stop me from getting an itchy tongue and feeling like I am going to throw up. Thankfully my allergy isn't too bad, but jeez! I wasn't even thinking when I did it. What things have you done that made you go, Did I really just do that?
Well my allergies are not too bad at all so on that part I am blessed, but last week I was opening some meat on the counter next to a glass and I looked at it and said to myself..."better move that before I..." and yep you guessed it! My hand hit it and it slowly rocked back and forth but still managed to fall and shatter into a million pieces...it never had a chance.
Ha ha! Because you're thinking of your daughter, not yourself! That's just being a good mom. And probably also just being a very busy mom! :) One of my baby's little plastic spoons started spinning down the drain and into the (running) garbage disposal. I almost reached my hand in there to grab it! Yikes. That would have been fun to explain to my husband.
LOL. You were trying to make your child happy. Thankfully I am only allergic to one food item so we just eliminate it totally from our house as does my parents and in-laws.
When my son was an infant he slept in the bassinet. I would keep it upstairs so that my 16 month old daughter running around wouldn't wake him. Sometimes he would start to stir and I would sneak up the steps and turn the vibrations on on the bassinet. So, one day while he was sleeping in the bassinet and my daughter was sleeping on the couch (as she often did) I was enjoying some quiet time! Finally, a rest for mommy! I had been very sleep deprived. Anyway, I hear my son start to stir and start my climb up the stairs being very careful to avoid the noisey creaky steps. I turn the vibration on without my son seeing me and decide the best way to get back down the steps was to walk down them the same way I came up...So I started desending backward, again, avoiding the noisey steps. Somehow I miss counted on the last few steps and tumbled onto the floor in the downstairs hall. Needless to say, both children woke with a startle and I lay on the floor thinking...WOW, that was really dumb :)
I have many stupid moments.
When we first got married we had a garbage disposal. I had never had one. So I had a bad head of lettuce adn put the whole thing into the sink, washed it down and starting running the disposal. We had chopped lettuce coming up the other side of the sink and my poior hubby had to take everything apart to fix it.
I drive full size conversion vans, they're big. So I am in the drive through at the bank and I scraped the side of one of their brick pedestals. Yeah, did I stop and back up, oh no, I drive through and rip the whole back panel off the van.
Awww you were trying to do a sweet thing :)
My stupid mommy moment was the time I was dutifully giving my daughter her liquid allergy meds... when ACTUALLY I gave her a big heaping dose of cough syrup with codiene, which I left out for MYSELF because I was sick as a dog.
The poison control lady laughed and told me not to bother with the bedtime story tonight, because my daughter was going to BED, RIGHT NOW ;)
(She was fine, but I still felt like a boob!)
what dont i do that makes me go "d'oh" after wards... my kids were a year apart, so 2 highchairs side by side for a while... i was feeding my 1.6 month old cheerios and strawberries with a spoon and my 6 month old baby cereal... well the spoonfull of cheerios and strawberries went into my toothless baby girls mouth and the baby cereal into the 1.6 yr olds mouth... needless to say when i figured out what i did with my daughter looking at me with HUGE eyes i was fishing out the cereal with my fingers... lol
that's not stupid that's what i call "mommy brain" Its when you fudge up because you are too busy multitasking and caring for everyone else other than yourself.
I keep leaving the oven on "bake"...i simply dont turn it off when im done using it...the other day it was overnight....yikes
My stupidest moment was not a mommy moment so I can't even blame that!! I was working as a machinist and had an issue with the product we were producing. I stuck m y hand into the machine to fix it and hit an electircal wire and shocked the sh!t outta myself. It literally threw me back! About an hour later I was having the SAME issue and stuck my hand in the machine AGAIN and shocked the daylights outta myself. It knocked me to the ground, stuttered my heart a bit, and burned my hand and foot. I had to go to the ER. SO so so stupid.
My other one was on a different machine, different company, 14 years later. I was cleaning up my machine and noticed something that needed to be cleaned up. I didn't lock out my machine (so it wasn't off) and stuck my hand in their to clean up and clean cut the top of my finger off. The doctors were not able to put it back on, so my middle finger is a bit shorter than the others.
L.
(Man, maybe I should stop working around machines!!)
