It always
seems that when I am tired, stressed or just plain overwhelmed, I long for a
hug from my mom. These past few days have been like that. I still can’t really
wrap my brain around her absence. It just doesn’t seem possible.
But I don’t
want to write about that. My goal for the time being is to turn my thoughts
around and eliminate negativity. Not that missing my mom is negative, it just
isn’t a good place for me to sit. I am trying to be positive. I am trying to
have faith. I read the other day that faith takes practice. I am practicing, I
am making progress.
I think I
will write about my kids, they make me happy and they are always good for a
perky story.
In our
house, we don’t watch a lot of what we call regular television. We watch
channels that show kid shows. For the most part if there isn’t something that
they can learn, then we don’t watch. No Sponge Bob, no teenage love story shows
and nothing with shooting. Mostly Nickjr and Disney Junior. I have noticed
recently that one of these channels has started to show commercials. I like a
good ad, but I really like not having them on in between Team Umizoomi and
Bubble Guppies. I can’t say that I watch these shows, but they are on and I
hear them. So, when a commercial comes on it stops me. Most of them are for kid
related things, you know shoes that light up, games, movies and gimmicky kind
of things.
Indulge me
for a moment while I tell a side story. I promise it is related.
My daughter
seems to have itchy ears. There isn’t anything wrong with them, they just seem
to get a little dry and itch. Most people would scratch their ear and go on.
Not my little girl.
Let me pause
here to add a disclaimer. I do not promote the insertion of cotton swabs into
any orifice of any kind on any living thing. However, I am one of those who
uses them to clean ears and occasionally to retrieve a stubborn booger from my
child’s nose. Always with the statement that these are only to be touched by
grownups, not kids. We do endorse the “nothing smaller than your elbow should
be put into an ear” belief. At least as far as my kids go.
Back to my
daughter’s itchy ears. Usually once a day she exclaims that her ears itch and
she can’t scratch it. It frustrates her because as she says, “I can’t get my
elbow to my ear to itch it.” If you will, just visualize a beautiful little
four-year-old trying to make her elbow go into her ear. Yes, it is that cute.
She has decided that when they do itch, they are dirty and I must get a swab
and clean them out. I usually do and she is on her way.
Back to my
original story, commercials.
It was a
normal morning, I can’t say what the kids were watching on tv, but I do know
commercials were being run. This time, they weren’t kid commercials.
My daughter
is comical, but when she is serious, it is definitely time to listen. She has a
way of explaining things that make you stop, watch and listen. She uses her
hands to make her points and if you aren’t listening, she will let you know.
On this
particular morning she came running into the room where I was and she had her
serious look on her face. This is the gist of our conversation:
“Mom, we
need to get that thing that was on tv.”
“What thing.”
“The WaxVac.”
“The what?!”
“The WaxVac.
You put it in your ear and it cleans all of the dirt out so they won’t itch. It’s
on the tv. Can we get it?”
Keep in mind
that she was using hand gestures as she spoke. It was really too funny to
comment on. We just stood there and laughed.
It wasn’t
long before we saw the commercial again. Sure enough, the Wax Vac sucks out the
ear wax so you don’t have to jam a swab so far in that you puncture your
eardrum. Look it up, that’s their bit. The commercial is really funny, but I am
wondering why it is being played in between kid shows. Their right I guess. It
does create some interesting conversations in our house. For example, my son
now knows that Lysol will kill 99% of all germs, or something like that. They
also believe slippers that move when you walk are genius and Barbie DVDs are
cutting edge. I’m not complaining, I loved the commercials when I was a kid.
For me it was K-tel, anything with a catchy ditty and the Budweiser commercials
(the horses were so pretty). It’s a new generation and a new set of
commercials. Oh change is hard.
I keep
writing about my progress. I am proud of my progress. Today, I showed it to
you. I started out kind of slow and on the verge of a tear or two and then I
suddenly turned it around.
I am making
positive progress.
I miss my
mom each and every second of every day. I don’t believe that will ever go away.
I am learning what methods work for me so that I don’t let it take me over.
I would like
to thank my kids for keeping me in the real world. Amazing how they do it. I
would also like to thank WaxVac. I won’t buy your product, too creepy, but it
is things like this that remind me to not take life so seriously and to
always find humor.
On Monday I
am asking everyone to ask one person for a dollar. Finding a million people is
turning out to be a bigger challenge than I thought. So I am asking you to ask
one person, two if you are adventurous, to give you a dollar to help fight
pancreatic cancer. When you get that dollar, click on the link below and donate
it. Just one dollar.
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