Katie is such a fun mom to 6 sweet kiddos. She is so willing to share her advice and the knowledge she has learned along the way. I love listening to her stories and am thankful for her advice.
With six kids there is a lot of public humiliation, something that I have never liked. But 15 years of kids (my oldest is 15), has changed my reaction when the moment happens, now I just roll with it.
So each of my children has had an infamous moment in public, however some stand out more than others.
My family has had many puking stories. Each child has tried for the “champion” of puking in public.
However, only one child holds that title.
My husband, kids, some of my family members, and I had gone to watch my little brother compete in state wrestling. We were very excited because he had done very well and was going to wrestle for the state championship. We were at an events center and if you have been to a place like that, they are huge. There are rows and rows of seats and they go all around in a horse shoe shape. We were almost all the way to the bottom to ensure a good view. We had a couple rows of wrestlers in front of us so we were about the third row down from the bottom.
One of my children kept laying on the cement floor. I kept thinking he must just be tired, it had been a long weekend. My mom picked him up and handed him to me. I settled him on my lap, where he squirmed for a bit then all of the sudden, (one of those slow motion moments), he projectiles on a boy in front of us. Absolutely covering the back of his head, his shoulders, and his arms. You could see the puke run down his shirt.
Meanwhile, his friend next to him begins screaming in a high pitch voice and jumping up and down, shrieking ooooh its on me (he got a little bit on his little pinky).
My husband grabs our son and starts taking the stairs four at a time, all the while my son is puking all the way up the steps. You can hear the whole crowd (like in the movies) as they go oooh, aaaah, ohhhhhh.
I am horrified as hundreds to a thousand people witness this moment to never be forgotten.
I turn to the poor young man in front of us and I start apologizing to him. He just quietly takes off his shirt, wipes himself off with it and then bends over to get in his bag. I look down to see that he has puke puddled on the top of his bag. I ask if I can take it to the bathroom to scrub it off and try to find something to clean the stairs off with and the floor around us. I clean it off and take the bag back to the young man. He was such a gentlemen about it. I bet he has never forgotten that moment.
I have wondered if he has children of his own and has experienced something like this. I hope it is with someone as kind as him, if he has.
You sure experience a lot of things with kids some good and some horrifying. But they grow up so fast and we just look at it now as a funny story to tell (over and over again). I will be sure to tell it to his future family someday.
Thank you Katie for being brave and sharing one of your most horrifying mommy moments with us! I sure hope your kids give you a break and stop competing to top this one!
What is your most horrifying, embarrassing moments with your kids? Can you top this puke story and put Katie at ease??!!
What is your most horrifying, embarrassing moments with your kids? Can you top this puke story and put Katie at ease??!!
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