It is a long-standing tradition in our family, that I publicly share my annual round up of “Mom Fails” on the blog. They usually include things like forgetting to pick a kid up from the airport, dropping a kid off at the wrong hockey arena, and the usual things busy moms do. I always ask the kids what tops the list, and they are more than happy to share their ideas. For my top 2022 Mom Fails include:
Going to high school parent teacher interviews wearing my pants inside out AND backwards.
I remembered it was interview night about 10 minutes before my first appointment, so that is probably another fail and could explain my outfit. The MOMENT I walk in my house from the outside world, I immediately take off my “hard pants” (also known as jeans) and put on my track pants. I quickly threw on some cargo pants, and well, you know how that landed.
“I’m not a regular mom, I’m a cool mom.”
My teens held a Hallowe’en party, so it only made sense that I wear the costume of Regina George’s mom from Mean Girls. It was a pink velour track suit. The problem being, of course, that it is extremely comfortable. So I wear it outside of Hallowe’en and in public. Hallowe’en not needed.
The “Champagne Birthday”
My third child turned 20 this year on the twentieth of November. When their older sister turned eight on the eighth of March many years ago, we celebrated this champagne birthday with a trip to NYC. For this child, I completely forgot. I have a friend who has a child born on the same day of the same year, so I was excitedly “liking” their celebrations without connecting the dots that it meant my child also had a special birthday. It took me three days before I realized. Welcome to middle child life.
I’m sure there are many, many more, but we like to take this opportunity to laugh and recognize that moms are not perfect. I’m OK with my fails and can only imagine what they will be in the upcoming year. I often joke that I gave up “mom guilt” four kids ago. We have to allow our kids to laugh at us and laugh at ourselves.
For my other mom fails check out these from 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
