I Had Poop Under My Nails Too...
Being a mom to a baby,
and even harder sometimes- a toddler, can be tough.
Rewarding, but tough.
You get the snuggles,
the baby fat rolls,
the mama-unconditional-I-need-you-stuff,
that you don’t always get being the mom of a 6-year-old.
But you also get the I-can’t-leave-the-room-for-a-minute, blow your nose, and diaper disaster stuff.
You don’t always shower (shhh... it's okay) and sometimes you're in sweats...
And sometimes, just when you think you are getting-it-all-together,
you find out you've been walking around all day with Cheerios stuck to your butt...
But it's okay, because at least you didn't find poop under your fingernails... like I did...
Disgusting, right???
I was driving with my son and started to smell the odor of poop, which the new-mom-nose is highly sensitive to... 'Is he pooping? Is that just gas? Was it a big one? Let me look at his face. Is he straining? Or does he have a big grin on, like, that felt great?'
I checked my son's face in the rear view mirror... 'He's Fine,' I thought.
So where was the smell coming from?
I started to sniff some more... 'I think it's coming from me!' We stopped at a light and I hesitantly put my hands up to my nose,
'It is me!'
And then I looked down under my fingernails,
and I had
dried
poop
under
my
fingernails.
For a split-second, I felt a lump in my throat, and I said to myself,
"Are you kidding me?! What are you doing?! Can't you keep yourself together?! Did you remember to put shoes on yourself and a diaper on the baby, because you just left your house with poop underneath your fingernails... dried poop, so it's been there awhile. Get it together, girl!"
And then, with that lump in my throat... I started to laugh,
and my son started to giggle back in his carseat.
And we laughed, and we laughed...
... Maybe, if you're a new mom, it's not that disgusting...
Diarrhea, that's disgusting; but you know what? Only if it's right before a family holiday party and you have that 'Picture Taking Outfit' on your little one, and then it's not disgusting, it's annoying.
Laugh at the small stuff. And poop underneath your fingernails,
whether they are manicured or not,
is definitely,
small stuff.
Not necessarily hygienic, but small.
Nicole's doesn't have to check under her nails for stuff anymore, so she's blogging over at BananaBlueberry, giving out Helpful Hints at her HouseHold Tips Blog and tweeting at BanBlueberry.
