Experienced Bad Mom’s Top 3 Christmas Moments

I’m still recovering from having my parents and my big sister visit over Christmas. And I mean recovering in the nicest way possible! It was fun and crazy having 7 people in the house.

There weren’t many bad mom moments, but there were some lovely, zany Christmas memories. Here are the Top 3:

1. My little sister, who spent the holidays with her in-laws, sent me and my big sister homemade potholders for Christmas. At least that’s what my mom told us. Turns out the potholders are highly flammable dish rags that should never be used as potholders. I put out a small kitchen fire as a testament to the fact. (Just kidding, mom!)

2. My parents have lived under a rock for several years. Consequently, they hadn’t seen National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation in FOREVER. So they found it highly amusing each of the thirty times it was on during their visit. In fact, it was my mom’s wish that we all recite the pledge of allegiance for grace one night at the dinner table. Just like Aunt Bethany. So we did.

3. My  husband is a Bigfoot aficionado. Thus, when he had a spare moment, he turned on the TV to catch up on missed episodes of Finding Bigfoot. Have you seen this show? Ranae, Bobo, Cliff and Matt wander around looking for Bigfoot. They haven’t found him yet.

One episode turned into a marathon, with grandma and grandpa glued to the screen (in mockery, to be honest). During the course of this marathon, we adopted our new family motto. The motto was spoken first by Bobo, the professional Bigfoot impersonator, on the occasion of him and a colleague falling out of the hot air balloon basket they had been riding in to find Bigfoot:

Pimpin’ ain’t easy and neither is Squatchin’.

I’ll be getting bumper stickers and t-shirts for everyone in the family shortly.

How were your holidays?