And the Mommy of the Year award goes to.......

Can I have a drum roll please?

OK, so I don't know exackly what awakened me at 1 am but between my numerous sleeping disorders and the 4 noctornal animals living in my house I often wake up through out the night I would have been able to go back to sleep had I not iched so bad--luckily I am not itching because I too am covered in Poioson Oak, like the rest of my family members, nope not poison oak itch, instead i am itching because since I don't fit into any of my cute swim shorts anymore I had to shave my upper thighs/doiwn there region before going swimming saturday, a mistake I won't make again anytime soon. So anyhow, the itching was driving me crazy and so as I laid there awake tryign to go to sleep I remembered that I hadn't checked the outside freezer before going to bed and that yesterday mornign I found that Dominic had left it open after sneakin an ice cream push pop and how since our inside fridge/freezer was malfunctioning all our stuff could go bad if it was left open all night and it all defrosted--not to mention how delightful our power bill would be after we attempted to freeze the neighborhood whole the outside tempature is triple digits.

So I pull my lazy but out of bed and find me a pair of sleeper pants to put on (since I can't walk outside in a T-shirt and panties, well I could, I am sure my neighbors wouldn't mind but being that I don't have a single cute young neighbor, well, you know what I mean, I would mind if they saw me in a t-shirt and panties, as I am putting them on in the halway I notice something weird with Dominic's bed--oh yeah dad hasn't put the side protector anti roll off the bed thing on it yet and the blanket is all the way to the ground making it appear that Dominic has rolled off the bed, which would be bad considering his bed is a loft bed--I fell off it once and it hurt big time.

So I walk into Dominic's room to make sure he is still on the bed, which is when I notice he is ha'f off the bed so I try and position him so he is more on the bed and less likely to roll off. So you are all wondering if this is why i received the mother of the Year award? because I repositioned my son so he wouldn't fall off his bed in the middle of the night? NO, it is because as i repositioned my son in his bed I noticed just how wet it was, a little too wet for it to be just sweat and my first thought is 'memo to self, Don't let Dominic crawl into bed with us in the morning before he changes his peepee covered clothes' yes that is why I the proud recepient of the mommy of the Year Award, not because I tried to change his peepee clothes while he slept and move him to one of the various dry beds in the room, not because I put the side bar thing on his bed so he wouldn't roll off, no because in my groggy sleep deprived brain the main concern I had was that I remember to have him change his unders before crawling in my bed that way I only had to wash one set of bedding and not ours as well as his, yep I was sure thinking motherly there.

So what have you done this week that would cause me to lose my title and you to be named the new mother of the year?

Also, I remember watching a show on parenting (before I was a parent of course because we all know once you are a parent yo have no time to improve your parenting skills, maybe that is why all young childless people have such strong opinions on how we could be better parents) and this guy was talking about changing his newborn babies diaper while she slept and trying not to wake her up and all the other parents were like "why are you changing it if she isn't awake?" which it is acceptable not to change a wet diaper till the child wakes up, so with that said, is it also acceptable to wait till your child wakes up to change the peepee clothes and bedding when said child pees the bed? Right now I am finally starting to feel tired again so I am going to go back to bed, I will think further on this in the later hours of the morning (while my son is awake)