Mommy Needs Some Private Time

Do you remember those Toyota Sienna commercials (“Swagger Wagon”!) about the very cool mom who used to enjoy some private “Mommy time” in her Sienna?  At the time, I thought they were awesome and hysterical.  Now I have become her.  It officially happened earlier this week.  One night we got home from wherever-the-heck we were at the very late hour of 7:10pm.  The insane bath/bedtime dance was occurring and our pyschotic dog was majorly jonesing for some attention (read: annoying the crap out of me).  I realized I forgot something in the van and went out to the garage.  To get it, I had to sit down and reach over the seat.  Then the dog started throwing a fit b/c he couldn’t move around the open van door to get outside, so I pulled it shut.  And then it hit me.  It was quiet.  I was sitting.  There were no children here.  How long would it take my husband to realize I was missing?  And was there some sort of panic mode that would allow me to lock myself in from the inside, disabling all outside keys/locks so no one could enter??  THE. BEST. TEN. SECONDS. OF. MY. LIFE.

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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