Today I’m sharing a guest post from my sister, Meghan. She is a work-from-home mom living in Franklin, TN with her husband and three kids, ages 1, 3, and 5, and two black labs. She spends her time serving at her church, putting back together things her son has taken apart, remodeling her fixer-upper home, and giving up on trying to keep shoes on her kids.
Dear Frazzled Mom, (…from one Frazzled Mom to another…)
For those of you feeling a little down today or like you just can’t get things right, let me give you a little grace and humor by basking in my failures today.
Picked up RK (3) from pre-school today and her teacher informed me that:
1. her pants were on backwards (because she dressed herself this morning) and
2. she didn’t have any panties underneath said backwards pants (because she dressed herself this morning…and her drawer was empty b/c the clean panties are in a basket on the floor).
Evidently, she provided all the teachers with a good laugh today b/c her pants were a little big, so there was a lot of plumbers crack today in class. Bless.
After pick-up, I realize my gas light is on and I have exactly enough gas to get to Costco to fill up. Pull into Costco as it rolls to “0 miles” on my tank. Yay! Until I realize I have my Costco card, my drivers license, my checkbook, but not my wallet with the only form of payment Costco accepts (cards).
How does that even happen??
I don’t have enough gas to get back home or even to another gas station. I don’t have cash to pay someone.
So today I was “that person” who got to humbly ask the person next to me if I could use his credit card to put $10 in my tank and I would write him a check for $10 because I had no gas in my tank. He looked at me like I was crazy, I acknowledged that yes, it was a crazy request, but I didn’t know what else to do.
He mumbled something about things like this happening at the Wal-Mart gas station…not Costco. Then graciously accepted my check for $10 while I tried to avoid the stares of the other 6 people who overheard the conversation. I seriously considered showing him a screenshot of my bank account so he would believe me when I told him the check was good.
Oh. my. goodness. What has happened to my brain? And y’all. This is not an isolated incident. Things like the first example (not the second…that one’s a little extreme) happen all the time.
So if you ever think that the rest of your friends have it all together and you don’t, think twice, my friends. It’s a facade.
Let’s be real with each other, admit our failures, and extend grace to one another. It makes it easier to laugh instead of cry when we have to bum $10 worth of gas off a stranger to get home.
Loved it. When my youngest was little, a frequent question before we left the house was “Are you wearing underwear?”
Oh yes! My friend has 5 little ones ages 10 down to 7 months. The 4 oldest are girls and one has a propensity to leave the house commando! 🙂
I can totally relate, Meghan! I once bought a shopping cart full of food from a little grocery chain store called Aldi’s that only accepts cash or debit, but I had neither on me as I pulled up to the checker. Thankfully, the Lord was good to me that day because one of the ladies I slightly knew from church was there and she graciously paid for my groceries while I wrote her the “good check” that she was hoping would not bounce from one of her pastor’s wives! Lol!
And thanks to LeeAnn for coming by Messy Marriage and commenting. I’d love it if you’d link this post up at the Wedded Wed linkup too. And as a bit of a bonus for you, Sheila (of To Love, Honor and Vacuum) will be sharing my post in various ways on social media, so it just might bump your exposure as well. 😉
Hi Beth,
Aldi is our favorite grocery store. We always have to double-triple check that we have our debit card…and a quarter of course!
Thanks for the suggestion to link up this post. Happy to do so.
🙂 LeeAnn