Epic Mom Fails

I have had two very epic fails this week.  The first was on a very busy day I had to run to Costco to pick up some invitations that I had printed and a poster that I made to go in Emma's room.  It was the craziest experience, and we looked like peddlers because it was raining and I didn't get a cart because I didn't want to put kids in a wet cart.  So I carried a 23lb. Sarah in the baby Bjorn in to get the kids lunch (hot dogs) and pictures.  It turns out the pictures weren't ready :( so we headed off to get paper cups (which we did need) so I could go get cash to buy us lunch while we waited.  Sarah Miss Grabby Hands grabbed everything in sight since she was facing out and eventually a hot dog hit the ground. Lucky for us it stayed wrapped up.  So we finally did eat, get the pictures and the poster for Emma's room, and made it home to put Sarah down for a nap.  The epic fail was when the poster was carried upstairs by a helper and left in little Sarah's path for when she woke up.  It was mangled and now has huge creases in it.  Boo!  I was really upset not only because our day was so very crazy but also the cost to reprint.  FAIL #1!

The second one was I was helping do decorations for a Bridal Shower.  I made a banner and printed it out (including reprinting half of it because the print ran out of card stock).  I started cutting it out and then had whiny, hungry children so I stopped to feed us all some lunch.  I then cleaned the kitchen up with Sarah downstairs and came up to hear "Mom don't come in the playroom."  First clue that something was amiss but I honestly just thought she was cleaning up the toys and wanted to surprise me.  "What are you doing?" I say to Emma.  "Nothing Mom."  "Nothing naughty I hope."  "Nope" was the reply so I tidied up a bit before going in to see the rest of my banner on the floor being cut out by a four year old.  "Oh Emma" I yelled with great disappointment.  Which was followed by the four year old running to her room crying.  She thought she was going to surprise me with how helpful she had been.  I followed her and consoled her hurt feelings, and we talked about when it was and was not okay to do surprises and help people.  I didn't know what to do and would have had to recreate the whole thing because I only printed it as I went and didn't save it.  So instead (she does have awesome cutting skills for a 4 year old but it still looked like a child cut it) I decided to make the flags a bit smaller and recut the sides.  It did work out in the end.  FAIL #2!