This isn’t my first post about boogers (see here, here, and here ) and I’m sure it won’t be the last…
While driving on a recent afternoon, I looked in my rearview mirror to see my little munchkin munchin’ on a booger. Like any good mama would, I told her to stop immediately. So what did Alice do? She took it out of her mouth and attempted to hand it to me.
Don’t ever say my life isn’t glamorous.
I told Alice “no thank you” but not for the reason you might assume. Oh no, I told her I was too busy driving to take it right then. As if there is ever a good time to take a four-year-old’s slobbery booger. Remember that bit? About my glamorous life? No? Neither do I. Because it just isn’t true.
Eventually traffic calmed enough for me to reach back and take the booger. Really. Then I rounded a corner and had to hold it there on my hand until I could safely dispose of it. This, of course, got Alice to thinking. Always the optimist, Alice noted, “It’s a good thing it’s a sticky booger because that way it will stick on to your hand until you are ready.”
There is no such thing as ready, Alice. Not for that.
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Quick question, did you take the booger because you were planning to release it into the wild where it could roam free?
Of course I did, Stacie. No self-respecting mother could live with herself knowing the fate that booger otherwise would have faced: one fateful ‘chomp’, a sad life in captivity, only to eventually be released 24 hours later to… well… you know.
Similar to taken over-chewed gum from a child, isn’t it? Ok…the booger is grosser.. 🙂
So much grosser, Mimi. A good analogy nonetheless!
Motherhood is awesome. Lol
The awesomest, lazyhippiemama. Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers!
“it’s a good thing it’s a sticky booger.” I like her positive, nose-is-half-full attitude.
My little booger optimist. Awesome.
This is when keeping napkins or tissues in the car might be a good idea 😉
Oh Shannon. Such things are far too practical to actually occur. Alas, I must think about how much better my life would be if my head were screwed on straight…
At least you knew where that one was. I’ve found some that he (our little one) has “hidden.” They are never really in places I like to find them. He has also given himself bloody noses by “digging for treasure.” That’s fun too.
Oh, Alice would never let a good booger go to waste. Have you seen the post about food pairings? N-A-S-T-Y.
I have. Haha.
She insists they are a tasty treat. It is just disgusting.
Yes I saw the new post about snacks. Eww. 🙂
Shannon, I think you meant to say “Eww eww eww eww eww!” Right?
I’m over here laughing softly. Brings back memories. Not that my kids, now teens, would ever have done anything like that. 😉
Oh Marie, of course they didn’t! And when Alice is 14, she won’t have either…
Oh, I’m laughing now, but I know I’ll have my paybacks. Big sticky toddler boogers are still in my future.
Trust me, Kathy. You will be paid back in spades. I was once a bit stuffy. No more. Not even a little bit.
Cheers!