There are times, moms, that we just have to throw our hands up in the air and say “I give.” Sometimes, when one’s preschooler brings the sippy cup, milk, and chocolate syrup into one’s bedroom while on an important call…Mommy just needs to make the chocolate milk while sitting on the bedroom floor as she negotiates better health insurance rates with insurance rep, “Bob.”
That is what happened to me this week. As the month of January rumbled toward an end, I was eager to square away a new health plan with our insurance company. Most of the afternoon had been quiet with my 3-year-old (Lucy) until I got on the phone.
Of course.
I hunkered down into my bedroom (the only quiet spot) with my laptop so I could review coverage options online with “Bob.” Things were going well, and the inevitable began.
Lucy whispered, “Can I have chocolate milk, Mama?”
“Excuse me Bob…When I’m off the phone, Lucy.”
A few minutes later, “Can I have chocolate milk, now, Mama???”
“When I’m off the phone, Lucy.” I shoo her away…
Quite a few minutes later Lucy rounds the corner with her sippy cup, a carton of milk and the bottle of chocolate syrup. I thought, “Good golly! This the survival of the fittest. She’d TOTALLY survive in a barren desert. The girl knows how to make things happen.”
I TOTALLY could have taken that time to teach Lucy better phone manners and such, but Bob and I were on a roll. To tell you the truth, my brain was cranking so hard to grasp insurance concepts and their sneaky twists, I decided my energy was best spent understanding “insurance” instead of teaching a “life-lesson.”
So, what did I do? I made chocolate milk for my 3-year-old daughter while I sat on the floor in my bedroom.
I balanced a laptop on my lap, listened to insurance-speak from Bob, and poured milk and chocolate syrup into a sippy cup. I screwed on the lid, and then I shook that sippy cup full of chocolate syrup and milk. I also saved my family $550 a month in insurance premiums. A mom has got to do what a mom has got to do.
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