A Mommy Story

Sure, kids may blame the dog for eating homework, but we parents can blame our kids for stuff that we’ve flaked on, too. Especially when they really are responsible for it.

I had good intentions of cleaning out my Bloglines. With over 800+ posts to catch up on, I spent part of this afternoon plowing through it to whittle down that number to something approaching reasonable. I’ll admit I read too many blogs, but I love keeping up with so many people, even if I don’t always have time to comment.

So at one point Mira was sitting on my lap, when she suddenly took an interest in the laptop that she was sharing the lap with. She loves pushing buttons, and kept reaching for the keyboard in an attempt to appease her addiction.

And then she got frustrated when I kept intercepting her button-pushing fingers. With one quick movement, she slapped the keyboard.

And just like that, my Bloglines went to 0.

Z-e-r-o.

She somehow marked all posts as read.

Over 700 posts, no longer marked for me to catch up on.

Damn.

I suppose she did me a favor by forcing me to start fresh. Still…argh.