Comments on: Adelaide Strikes Again

By: leigh

leigh — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:53:00 +0000

Great story. My husband lost one of ours at Bass Pro Shop. So I feel your pain! By the way, I LOVE the name Adelaide!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:22:00 +0000

I lost my son in Walmart once. He loves to play “hide and watch mommy panic.” He didn’t turn up for about 15 minutes. As I was begging the woman at the customer service desk to block all exits, lock all the doors. She actually asked me “Why wasn’t your son with you?”. This was not a good time for her to ask. It took all I had for me not to grab the store mic out of her hand and scream for my son myself. I was visibly crying and distraught. Some people are unbelieveable. Anyway, we found him and it all ended well. But everytime I go back to that same Walmart I give her the ‘look’ whenever I walked by.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:01:00 +0000

Lord you made me laugh!!!!

Thanks to you I'm actually looking forward to the none-to-pleasant sides of motherhood. My lil one's only 8 months.

Lots to look forward to it seems :)

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:08:00 +0000

I’m sure that was both traumatic and frustrating for you, and I can totally see that happening with me, as Wal-Mart has increasingly become an event that tries my patience with my nearly 3-year-old “walking” with me. You are not a bad mommy! Thanks for being brave to post about all of the ups and downs of being a mom.

By: Vintage Dutch Girl

Vintage Dutch Girl — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:23:00 +0000

Hmmm, I am just waiting for the day. I am constantly trying to run after Bubbalu in stores…which is why I have a strict ‘child in shopping cart’ at all times rule.

We’ll see what happens when he gets too big for it! I’m totally in for it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:02:00 +0000

Luckily Maddie doesn’t usually wander off… but this one time we were at Toys R Us and you know that stupid learning bike thing??? Well of course Maddie had to try it out. We didn’t have a lot of time so I told her to go ahead try it out and I’d be looking for the gift that we came for around the next row over. Two minutes later I heard my name called over the loud speaker to come pick her up at the front desk. Jeeez I knew where she was she knew where I was. I guess the girl saw her alone on the bike without a parent hovering next to her and thought “lost kid” how embarrassing!!! I guess you can’t be to hard on them, though, they’re just doing their job.

-Nichole

By: Colored With Memories

Colored With Memories — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:10:00 +0000

oh my!

although I’m surprised i haven’t experienced the wal-mart event yet, i have experienced the poo in the tub more times than i can count.

geez…they don’t even go that often…and they don’t get bathed that often either…whey do these two events keep coinciding?!?

By: Mom2-2goodboys

Mom2-2goodboys — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:40:00 +0000

LOL….yep! Been there, done that and the other too! Such is the Mommy life.

By: Mamacita

Mamacita — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:38:00 +0000

well, it’s dejavu reading that but somehow I can’t remember why…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:56:00 +0000

See, now, I don’t think you even technically lost her. Sounds like an overzealous employee stepped in and “made” a situation that hadn’t even existed. If you’re going to tell a “bad mommy” story, at least tell one that’s bad enough that it makes the rest of us bad mommies feel better about ourselves :-)

-Becky H

By: Leanne

Leanne — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:18:00 +0000

Though I have yet to be in your situation, I know we have all had our share of bad mommy moments. Who are we trying to fool here?

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:40:00 +0000

You poor thing…

I know you are a great mom. I’m not looking forward to when that happens to me. Hang in there!

By: Janna

Janna — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:37:00 +0000

And here’s to helping moms around the cyberspace world feel normal! – Thanks!! :)

By: Kalyndra

Kalyndra — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:40:00 +0000

It’s funny how kids never miss you saying ‘let’s get some candy’ but they conveniently don’t hear you when you say ‘stay right beside me.’

By: Jackie @ Our Moments Our Memories

Jackie @ Our Moments Our Memories — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:31:00 +0000

You know, the minute someone starts thinking or saying something judgemental about another mom, chances are it will happen to them. So absolutely no disdain or looking down my nose at you over here! And it has no bearing upon whether or not you are a good mommy, because we all – even those that don’t “know” you – know that you are. :)

By: M.K.

M.K. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:19:00 +0000

Man, you've got a load of comments! See, we all love you :)

Anybody who's had a handful of little kids knows what it's like to lose one.

My parents left my brother sleeping in a church pew once, and drove back home.

Once my 2 year old left the yard and walked down the railroad tracks to find his daddy in the hardware store (a bright boy, he knew the way). The sheriff brought him back home.

I know there may be deep spiritual implications of the title of your blog, but I often think it just means that your readers should take what you tell here with a grain of salt :)

Do you mean that Adelaide doesn't realize that that poop came out of her????

By: ab

ab — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:48:00 +0000

That’s funny! Don’t feel bad. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened to me yet. My daughter is the same way! She totally gives me a run for my money. It’s good to have these stories, and will be totally fun to tease her about when she gets older!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:47:00 +0000

No worries! Kids are very easy to lose – even at home! When I was about 5, my mom thought someone had kidnapped me out of the backyard. She frantically called the police and searched for me for hours. They finally found me – shivering in the attic! When she pulled the Christmas tree down and folded up the ladder, she had no idea that I had quietly followed her up there!

By: babiesforRuby

babiesforRuby — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:38:00 +0000

oh c’com, hasn’t every parent lost a child a time or two in their life? I have yet to “really” lose mine, but my mom lost me or I lost her ALL THE TIME when I was little, and yes, I think at least one was retrieved from the front of the store…it was petrifying at the time (tho Made seems fine!) but I look back on it as good memories, and actually as a “supposed to happen” occurrence that helps the growing up/independence process

By: Trina

Trina — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Oh my goodness, I am glad she was ok. Sounds like they did jump the gun a bit.

I haven't had either of these scenarios happen to me ...yet! With kids anything is possible though.

Hope you guys had a great trip. We ended up not going to Homestead Hollow because I would have had to sell my arm and leg to pay to get in, you know how that goes. Next time you are here though, we'll get together.