How I Failed & fixed it as a Mom This Holiday Season

I want to tell you about my biggest fail of the holiday season so far. Actually, I’m really going for it because I’ve had two in the past 24 hours so I’ll tell you about both.

First, we had my Dad- who, IYKYK- is one of my favorite humans over for the second night of Hannukah last night.

He gave me and the girls a trip to Arizona to visit him there in 2023.

We gave him a book I saw on Amazon and thought he’d like.
A book that he’s already read.
A book a patient of his had written.
All of which I should’ve known because he GAVE ME this same book a couple of years ago - and talked to me all about it.
…..And I never read it and forgot all of the above.

It didn’t feel great, I have to tell you. As someone who rarely forgets anything, to somehow give a gift he’d already had and forgot he’d given it to me—a mess.

So this morning, I went out and got him something different. Something I know he likes, and something I know he’s never tried.

And I just delivered them both to his office on lunch and literally said: Take 2 when I handed him the bag.

Because guess what, it’s not over until we call it.

My other fail?

Missing the notice in my daughter’s school app that it was “fuzzy sock exchange” day. (I swear to God this is real life and a real thing.) So you know what - after I got my second attempt at a present for my dad, I picked up a pair of fuzzy socks, had them wrapped and dropped them at my daughter’s elementary school.

Before the fuzzy sock exchange.

No harm no foul.

Just a lunch break of picking up a couple of things that fell through the cracks.

We can be so hard on ourselves. Especially as working parents. Especially as moms. Especially over the holidays.

But you know what I do all day long? Solve problems.

Drop the ball? Pick it up.

Find people who love you anyways.