Digging through four bags of garbage (chicken-nuggety, milk-cartony, banana-peely garbage) to find something. Something that you are then going to put in your child’s mouth.
So, yeah! The retainer! Went in the cafeteria trash can on the second day back from spring break. Awesome.
There we were after school, next to the Dumpster, picking through the lunch remains, wearing rubber gloves. And pretty much every adult that passed us gave a sympathetic, knowing look and said “Retainer? Been there. Sorry.”
I feel like I checked another one off the Mom Life List, right there.
- Emergency room: check, check.
- Peed on, pooped on, puked on: check, check, check.
- Said goodbye to kids at day care, at grandma’s, at kindergarten: check, check, check. (Not college, yet.)
- Pulled diapers, pacifiers, breast pads, matchbox cars, and Barbies out of my purse at inopportune moments: check.
- Subsisted on less sleep than a CIA detainee (for years on end): check.
What else?
And yes. We–I–found the retainer.
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Oh, yuck. Glad you found it.
Have not yet said goodbye at kindergarten or discovered Barbie. I figure a Star Wars action figure is bound to appear at some awkward moment though.
Mmmm…not there yet. But I do remember being the one to accidentally throw it out as a child. It was at a McDonald’s. Very unfortunate.
I can’t believe you found it. Well done.
Of course you found it. Way to go mom. Also: ewwww.
Turning into a Mama bird and biting pieces of an apple into small chunks to feed to my daughter. I didn’t even think twice.
Oh Goodness. Retainer in the garbage. I forgot about this milestone. I’d change a bazillion more diapers to skip that one. *yuck*
As I noted on FB, been there/done that. Didn’t realize I had a life list of mom stuff, but I guess that’s true.
Glad you found it! I kind of remember this scene from “Parenthood,” except in that movie, it was a restaurant’s garbage. Blech!
Glad you got it. We once went through a huge bin (dumpster) through copious amounts of rubbish looking for my sons pink bunny – his best friend. It was found.
I have SO been there, my friend. There is no dignity in trash digging.
The Queen of Putrescence!
Excuse the Princess Bride reference– I’m just happy you found what you were looking for.
I know a Politically Incorrect answer to that question which I will not state here*, but…..Good Job on the trash-picking, retainer-saving!
* Email me if you want the punchline…
One parenting hurdle I’m not sure I want to jump. But you rock for taking that leap!
I threw mine out on spaghetti day at school. Fortunately, I found it quickly and never did tell my parents…
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