Ever dealt with an epic tantrum over Hallowe’en candy at the grocery store? Gone a deep shade of red after an inappropriately timed comment by your 4 year old in public? Or, how about dealing with a horrendous hair disaster on your child, cut suspiciously by her big sister? These are the types of mom moments that can be heartwarming, or send you straight to a locked bathroom in tears.
To celebrate moments like these, motherhood and all its mayhem, LIVING WELL, an online resource that connects Canadians to the experts and topics they need to know about to live well every day, has launched the LIVING WELL Mom Moments contest in the spirit of coping, relating and celebrating motherhood together.
From now until November 22, LIVING WELL is inviting Canadian moms to share their funniest ‘mom moments’ for the chance to win the grand-prize of $5,000 cash or one of six weekly prizes! Each week there will be a different topic moms can contribute to for a chance to win, from the funniest things their kids have said, to horror stories involving bathroom accidents.
For a little inspiration, we have asked three of the LIVING WELL Mom Moment Ambassadors, bloggers Meg and Leigh of MeAndMeg.com, and life coach, Carly Cooper, to share some of their favourite mom moments.
With 7 kids between them all, there is plenty of opportunity for things to go awry. Leigh has 3 girls - Malone 3, Stella 19 months and Freya just 2 weeks old. Meg has 2 boys - Jax 5 1/2, Kai almost 4 and a little girl Billie, 15 months. Carly has one son, Jack.
Meg and Leigh
1. The setting: a pool party this past summer. The kids were going in and out all day having to use the washroom (typical reaction to chugging too much pool water). After just having come back outside with Kai, Jax informed me that now he had to go. Another mother who was there said she would take him down to the bathroom. When she came back out, she asked my husband if we ‘hold it’ while Jax goes pee? My husband’s response: ‘hold what’? Sure enough, Jax had suggested to her that she should hold his pecker for him while he goes. He told her it was ok for her to do that. We haven’t had to assist Jax with going to the bathroom in years; obviously he was up to something.
2. It was just another day in Shoppers Drug Mart. While I quickly ran around grabbing what I needed, Malone, quite loudly, grabbed me and said: “look mommy, there’s Oprah.” I turned to see a striking black women walk past us. Not convinced I heard her, Malone again said: “see mommy it is Oprah.” The women, now definitely in earshot, smiled at Malone and said “don’t I wish!” This whole time I had been convinced she wasn’t paying attention to the TV!
