No Mom is perfect. We all have our failures, shortcomings, and moments of weakness. The level of failure for me personally is measured by who exactly is privy to your mom fail. Was it a private at-home fail? Or did you fail at the gas station at 5 pm in front of a bunch of strangers?

The most epic mom fails inevitably involve school. Today I was at my sons school working on a project. It was after school and my sons teacher, Mrs. S had hall duty. She was with the last two kids to be picked up when she stopped me in the hall. She is outwardly laughing when she says “do I have a funny for you!” The laughing is a good sign. At least whatever shenanigans my kid has obviously committed, she has a sense of humor about it.

She goes on to explain she asked for his homework this morning. They are working on the states and capitals and every week they work on five. They color the states and write the states and corresponding capitals on the line. He handed her the homework assignment and explained he didn’t have fifty shades of gray for her today. He only had 4 shades of gray. (Because he had colored most of the states gray. )

Thankfully the teacher is still laughing as she is telling me this because all I can think is how does he even know about Fifty Shades of Gray? He watches Star Wars movies, Star Wars cartoons, the occasional other random cartoon, and old science fiction shows with his dad. I am quickly scanning my brain for how on earth he knows about this. All I can say to her while my face turns fifty shades of red is I am sorry. Followed by I have no idea how he knows about that. Still laughing she says he clearly had no idea what he was referring to but he definitely made her laugh.

I appreciate she can find the humor in however he may have been exposed to that particular turn of phrase. Surely on some level she MUST wonder exactly how we pick movies around here on family movie night!