Mom Fail

I was in the mini van with my three boys, driving to my sister's house.   She lives at least an hour and 20 minutes away.   It is always quite a trek but I almost have it done to a well timed drive.   Usually the boys wake up, they go to the bathroom and get dressed.  We skip breakfast at home and eat a granola bar in the car along with their milk.  This is great because it usually takes up some time in the car where they are happy.  I rarely have to stop because someone has to use the bathroom.

Back to the story.   For some reason this time the boys had already eaten breakfast.  The only concern I had was that one of them may throw up in the car (since it was shortly after a meal).  

I was about twenty minutes into the drive when my 2 1/2 year old started asking for his milk.  I had their milk cups by me.  I still had a good fifty minute drive left.  I could either give him the milk and his whining/demanding would stop or I could try to distract him.   The distracting did not work and the whining continued.   Here is where I should have found an exit, pulled off the freeway and given him his milk.  

Instead, in all my brightness I decided I could multitask while driving (very poor choice) and toss his cup back to him.  

So I did.   It was one of these hard plastic kind. 



He stopped his whining/crying for six seconds, then he cried harder and louder.   I realized the cup had hit him.  In my effort to make him a "tough" boy I reassured him that he was ok and it didn't hurt.  Don't good moms say this to their boys.

I looked in my rear view mirror again and saw him holding his mouth with blood dripping down his chin.   I had hit him with the cup and drew blood.

We found the next exit and the closest place to pull over so I could clean up the blood.  I gave him a big hug and a huge apology.  The rest of the drive he was not whining and I was laughing and crying at the same time.  How could I make such a bone head mistake?  I would like to blame it on what many people call "mommy brain".