So, as you can tell by the title of my blog, Running on Empty I am a busy mom! I am a busy mom who, for the most part, stays on top of her game. My son is always fed, always has clean clothes, always has wipes, and usually has plenty of diapers on hand. Unfortunately, due to my rigorous summer class and various graduation activities at work I committed the number one mommy crime. I received the most dreaded message on my BBM from my husband “We are completely out of diapers.“ Immediately, I felt overwhelmed with mommy guilt. My face turned red, I felt very warm, and my eyes began to fill up. “I am the worst mother in the world. How could I have overlooked the fact that we were out of Pampers.” Then, I remembered that my husband is the one who is mostly home with the baby! So, I messaged him back “So, go to the store and get some. Just use a swimmie diaper if you need one.” (This is something I will never quite understand. Why is it that dads, even the most amazing ones, never feel that it is their job to keep up on inventory of the household? If we are out of something why is it always the mom or wife’s responsibility to fill the inventory? Guess it is just one of those ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ kind of things.)
Well, about a half hour later, I got a very unusual message from my husband, “OMG u have to call me when u can.” So, in a motherly panic, I called him right away. He then proceeds to tell me that while he was at a local drug store (seriously who buys diapers at a drug store? WAY OVERPRICED!), picking up diapers, he heard someone squirting a water bottle everywhere. So, he turned to Braxton (our 20 month old) and realized the water bottle was coming from his swimmie diaper. He was peeing EVERYWHERE! My husband then said he did what any normal person would do. He picked up the baby (as he was peeing all over him), paid for the diapers, and ran like the wind. This was all while my son was peeing all over my husband.
This is a lesson learned and one I felt I had to share with my fellow and future mommies of the world. Never use swimmie diapers as a backup, EVER! Although, the question then arises, what is the purpose of the swim diapers? Are we floating in a sea of urine while we are swimming in our backyard pools across America? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww, as my son would say.
Just a thought.
Haha that is great! I learned that lesson when my oldest was a baby. He peed all over his car seat! I guess the purpose is to prevent the diaper from blowing up like a balloon so then YES we are swimming in a sea of pee!
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