A "Mom" Moment

Yesterday I had one of those profound "I am definitely a mother, and dang, I am awesome!" moments. Joe, Gracie, Janie and I had been out and about getting a few things at IKEA. We decided to go to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants while we were in the area, so we sat down in a booth and immediately Janie says, "I'm poopy!" with that darling grin of hers. I took her out to the van because I don't carry a diaper bag with me all the time, but I do keep an emergency one in the car for occasions just like this one. As I was rifiling through the bag I began to realize that there were indeed NO DIAPERS to be found. I knew that I just could not let her be dirty for the next two hours (because that is the amount of time it was going to take for us to eat and then drive home). I was seriously desperate for anything with which to cover the poor thing's bottom. And then my motherly inspiration hit! I had a cloth diaper (which I used as burp cloths for them), all I needed was something to fasten it onto her. I grabbed our emergency kit that I keep in my car too, and found some medical tape. I put the cloth diaper on her bummy and wrapped medical tape around the waist of it three times. Ta DA!!!!! Instant diaper! I was laughing the entire time I was doing this, and so Janie was laughing too. It was a moment I don't think I'll ever forget, it was so funny. But hey, she was poop-free and feelin' fine for the entire dinner!

(By the time we left she had completely soaked through the diaper and her shorts. In retrospect, I suppose I could have fashioned plastic pants out of the shiny silver emergency blanket, but I really think that would have been going too far, don't you? ;)

song of the day, buddy holly, peggy sue