Mom Fail Turned to Mom Win!

As a working mom of two (busy) kiddos, I find myself failing all the time. Sometimes, I do get a mom win, and this past Easter weekend, I had a big one!

Our lives are super busy right now.  My oldest is about to turn eight and we had his party recently, which meant buying and doing all the things you do for those kid/family parties. My son is also in baseball which my hubby coaches and they now have two practices a week plus games one day a week.  He also participates in a coding club. My daughter is in gymnastics one day a week and is now starting soccer one day a week.  Breathe mama, breathe.

So it was no surprise when we got to Easter-eve and were dying eggs and I realized we had not bought any plastic eggs to hide for the Bunny’s visit.  Oops. Putting out the real eggs all night would not work, so hubby and I decided to wake up early and hide the real eggs before the kids woke up.

Sunday morning, I woke up, tip-toed out of our room happy to be up before I heard anyone stirring, only to find my kiddos sleeping on the couch in the living room.  Twenty feet from the fridge.  My son can be a light sleeper if he knows or suspects you are up to something, and part of me wasn’t even sure he was sleeping.  I wouldn’t put it past him to catch me in some “Easter Bunny” act.

I thought all hope was lost, told myself I better get those plastic eggs next year, and went back to bed.  Twenty minutes later the kids were in our room, telling us all about the Easter Bunny’s visit, and my daughter asked me where the real eggs were that they had dyed.  I told her they were probably in the fridge still, and that maybe the Bunny didn’t put them out so that our dog wouldn’t get them.  See right there?  Setting up the story in hopes there is way less disappointment.

However, about thirty minutes later, I realized my kids were so engrossed in playing with toys in the living room, they were not paying attention to me.  At all.  I knew it was my moment.  I grabbed a laundry basket with some clean clothes from the laundry room next to the fridge, sneakily pulled the carton of 18 beautifully dyed Easter eggs from the fridge, buried them into the clothes, and walked right past my kids and up the stairs.

Apparently if you REALLY don’t want your kids to notice what you are doing, carry a laundry basket like you are doing some sort of chore.  Worked like a charm!  I hid all of the eggs without them noticing (you can see upstairs from the living room but not even a glance my way) and then I hid one single egg on the stairs as I came down as a “clue” I hoped they would see.  Then I quietly put the empty egg carton back in the fridge, and waited.

Not ten minutes later, my daughter decided to run upstairs for a toy.

“AN EGG! THERE’S AN EGG ON THE STAIRS! IT’S AN EGG!”

My son ran to her, and they both started screaming and freaking out.  It was magical.  They came running to me with the egg, and I told them there was no way the Bunny hid their eggs, that they were definitely in the fridge.  We went to the fridge, and I dramatically gasped at the empty egg carton we found there, and off they went.

They were so so excited.  It was the most amazing thing.  I could have easily given up and not hid the eggs.  I could have called it (yet another) mom-fail and just made a note to remember the plastic eggs for next year.  My kids would have been fine, and it would have been no big deal.  However, I am so extremely happy I had such a sneaky idea and found a way to turn it into a mom-win!

Hope you had the happiest of Easters!