Random Things That Moms Encounter

Two of them, to be specific, and both occurred today.

1. When you are a mom, you sometimes will have a morning like this:

You will be preparing your two coffee cups for your morning journey to daycare and then to work. If you prepare less than two, you are likely to fall asleep and veer into a snow bank, because you live in Minnesota and it's March and there are obviously still 5 foot snow banks on the side of the road. So you're pouring your two travel mug-fulls and your toddler will come out of your 5 year old's room. He'll say that Joshun is 'tuck, but he'll say it so calmly that you will think he has used the wrong verb. You'll go into Joshun's room and at first glance only see the 5 year old's legs dangling from the top bunk, against the wall.

You'll adjust your eyes, hear the toddler repeat "Joshun 'tuck" and then you'll leap across the room. You'll get to where you can see the 5 year old, and yes, he is 'tuck - head and arms above the top bunk, mid-section wedged between the wall and the bars of the bed, and legs dangling down. You haven't DRANK your two cups of coffee yet, so the best and most immediate course of action that pops into your head is to pull on the bed frame so as to temporary dislodge the 5 year old. You'll do that, but of course he won't fall immediately down, he'll fall partway and then the frame will have fallen back into its original position and it will sort of hit him in the face and cause him to bite his lip. You'll finally get him un-'tuck and he'll start crying because of the lip and then your toddler will commence with reassuring him - hugging him tightly and petting his arm and saying "Joshun - you ok. You ok Joshun." Then he'll add "dare no monsters no. It ok."

All will be right again with the world, except your 5 year old will have blood on his chin when you drop him off at school.

2. When you are a mom, you will have Netflix suggest the following "Top 10" movies they think you will enjoy, based on your history with them:

-The Spectacular Spider-man: Volume 3
-Wallace and Gromit: Loaf and Death
-The Spectacular Spider-man: Volume 2
-Bob the Builder: Trains and Treehouses
-Touching the Void (a documentary about a mountaineering trek gone awry)
-The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit
-Johnny Test: Season 1
-Angelina Ballerina: Love to Dance
-The Art of the Steal (a documentary about a collection of post-Impressionist paintings)
-The Cool School (a documentary about the modern art movement)