I know this is LONG but it is well worth it!
On August 16 Jamie and I decided to try and get some shopping done for my mom's party before we met my mom and sisters for lunch for Katie's 19th birthday.
Jamie and Macie met Cole, Hallie and myself at All A Dollar in Draper. As we walk in I ask Cole if he needs to go to the bathroom. Now I will have you know he is potty trained but has accidents when we are not at home and he gets distracted. He assures me he does not need to go.
Jamie and I start our shopping. Cole and Macie are begging to go to the toy isle. I ask Cole if he needs to go to the bathroom again, the answer is no. Jamie and I continue to shop. Soon I start to smell something. No it is not Hallie.
I get my bag and leave Hallie with Jamie and take a screaming, fit throwing Cole to the bathroom. He is not upset that he has just pooped his pants but that he wants to go to the toy isle with Macie.
In the one toilet restroom, right off the main shopping area, I proceed to clean Cole up and tell him that I am unhappy with him. We now have to throw his buzz lightyear underwear away. (I would rather purchase new underwear then clean it in a public restroom and then carry it around in my purse all day)
Cole has continued to throw a tantrum, screaming and crying. I will be honest I was frustrated and mad and not talking in a nice tone with him as I kept telling him to stop crying and I am sorry he has to sit there while I wipe his legs.
Fast forward a few minutes. Cole is sitting on the paper covered toilet seat, still crying while I have a poopy pair of underwear in my hand. Someone starts to bang on the door. I try and answer but am not sure if I heard them right. I open the door with the poopy underwear in my hand and ask the lady what she is yelling at me about.
Oh I heard her right, she was yelling at me to open the door right now or she was calling child services on me. Baffled and confused I ask her why. She proceeds to tell me that she and the whole store can hear me BEATING on that child and she is calling child services. I start to get all sweaty and my blood is pumping. More confused I let her know I am sorry but my 3 year old just pooped his pants and is throwing a tantrum. Now remember he is not upset about the poop but about not being with Macie on the toy isle.
So this lady continues to argue with me. I let her know I have not laid a hand on him. She then says well its emotional abuse and she is calling. I ask her if she has children of her own (which by the way is the first time Jamie, who has continued to shop, has heard a peep from the bathroom. So the whole store obviously didn't hear Cole screaming). Now I asked her this because anyone who has had a 3 year old child knows they can throw fits and tantrums and just be plain awful and embarrassing in a store.
She assures me she has children and is now calling child services. So I slam the door and tell Cole to hurry cause now I am scared. Not cause I did something wrong but because who knows what she is lying about and what they will believe.
Cole and I hurry to finish our business. By this time he has stopped crying and is looking confused. (Ironically as I lift Cole by the arm off the toilet seat he says "owe mom, that hurt". He didn't say it loud, so I don't think the lady heard, but come on Cole give me a break here)
While we are doing all of that Jamie has made her way over and hears the lady on the phone telling them "yes she is in the bathroom still" and "I can hear her beating on that poor baby now". So Jamie walks right up to her and says "ma am, ma am, who are you talking to?" The lady ignores her so she starts poking the lady with her finger. The lady then tells the person on the phone "I have a woman approaching me, I have a woman approaching me".
So Cole and I run out of the bathroom frantically looking for Jamie. Cole is telling everyone we pass that "that lady is being mean to my mom". I find Jamie, we grab the kids and rush out of All A Dollar with an upset Macie cause we are leaving without getting her chapstick.
We run to my car and drive away.
Definitely a bad day. We drove to another All A Dollar, got Macie's chapstick and our items.
Later I think of a million things to say to this woman who apparently walks around with child services programed in her phone.
Kevin tells me "you look guilty now because you ran away"
My dad says "why did you even open the door"
Others say " I am shocked you didn't punch her"
Grace and Linda, they just laugh with me/at me cause they find it ridiculous someone would threaten to call child services on ME...
All I can come up with is I was scared. I never in a million years thought something like this would happen to me. I understand all she heard was Cole's tantrum behind a closed door but still, stay out of my business. I am a good mom which she made me completely question and feel terrible about for days. I love Cole and Hallie more than anything.
These days who knows, the police could of showed up, taken Cole and maybe even Hallie. Even if it was just for a few hours that would of killed me and upset Cole.
So BEWARE if you shop at the All A Dollar in Draper for this woman...
And here are the pics of our Birthday Lunch with Katoo
On August 16 Jamie and I decided to try and get some shopping done for my mom's party before we met my mom and sisters for lunch for Katie's 19th birthday.
Jamie and Macie met Cole, Hallie and myself at All A Dollar in Draper. As we walk in I ask Cole if he needs to go to the bathroom. Now I will have you know he is potty trained but has accidents when we are not at home and he gets distracted. He assures me he does not need to go.
Jamie and I start our shopping. Cole and Macie are begging to go to the toy isle. I ask Cole if he needs to go to the bathroom again, the answer is no. Jamie and I continue to shop. Soon I start to smell something. No it is not Hallie.
I get my bag and leave Hallie with Jamie and take a screaming, fit throwing Cole to the bathroom. He is not upset that he has just pooped his pants but that he wants to go to the toy isle with Macie.
In the one toilet restroom, right off the main shopping area, I proceed to clean Cole up and tell him that I am unhappy with him. We now have to throw his buzz lightyear underwear away. (I would rather purchase new underwear then clean it in a public restroom and then carry it around in my purse all day)
Cole has continued to throw a tantrum, screaming and crying. I will be honest I was frustrated and mad and not talking in a nice tone with him as I kept telling him to stop crying and I am sorry he has to sit there while I wipe his legs.
Fast forward a few minutes. Cole is sitting on the paper covered toilet seat, still crying while I have a poopy pair of underwear in my hand. Someone starts to bang on the door. I try and answer but am not sure if I heard them right. I open the door with the poopy underwear in my hand and ask the lady what she is yelling at me about.
Oh I heard her right, she was yelling at me to open the door right now or she was calling child services on me. Baffled and confused I ask her why. She proceeds to tell me that she and the whole store can hear me BEATING on that child and she is calling child services. I start to get all sweaty and my blood is pumping. More confused I let her know I am sorry but my 3 year old just pooped his pants and is throwing a tantrum. Now remember he is not upset about the poop but about not being with Macie on the toy isle.
So this lady continues to argue with me. I let her know I have not laid a hand on him. She then says well its emotional abuse and she is calling. I ask her if she has children of her own (which by the way is the first time Jamie, who has continued to shop, has heard a peep from the bathroom. So the whole store obviously didn't hear Cole screaming). Now I asked her this because anyone who has had a 3 year old child knows they can throw fits and tantrums and just be plain awful and embarrassing in a store.
She assures me she has children and is now calling child services. So I slam the door and tell Cole to hurry cause now I am scared. Not cause I did something wrong but because who knows what she is lying about and what they will believe.
Cole and I hurry to finish our business. By this time he has stopped crying and is looking confused. (Ironically as I lift Cole by the arm off the toilet seat he says "owe mom, that hurt". He didn't say it loud, so I don't think the lady heard, but come on Cole give me a break here)
While we are doing all of that Jamie has made her way over and hears the lady on the phone telling them "yes she is in the bathroom still" and "I can hear her beating on that poor baby now". So Jamie walks right up to her and says "ma am, ma am, who are you talking to?" The lady ignores her so she starts poking the lady with her finger. The lady then tells the person on the phone "I have a woman approaching me, I have a woman approaching me".
So Cole and I run out of the bathroom frantically looking for Jamie. Cole is telling everyone we pass that "that lady is being mean to my mom". I find Jamie, we grab the kids and rush out of All A Dollar with an upset Macie cause we are leaving without getting her chapstick.
We run to my car and drive away.
Definitely a bad day. We drove to another All A Dollar, got Macie's chapstick and our items.
Later I think of a million things to say to this woman who apparently walks around with child services programed in her phone.
Kevin tells me "you look guilty now because you ran away"
My dad says "why did you even open the door"
Others say " I am shocked you didn't punch her"
Grace and Linda, they just laugh with me/at me cause they find it ridiculous someone would threaten to call child services on ME...
All I can come up with is I was scared. I never in a million years thought something like this would happen to me. I understand all she heard was Cole's tantrum behind a closed door but still, stay out of my business. I am a good mom which she made me completely question and feel terrible about for days. I love Cole and Hallie more than anything.
These days who knows, the police could of showed up, taken Cole and maybe even Hallie. Even if it was just for a few hours that would of killed me and upset Cole.
So BEWARE if you shop at the All A Dollar in Draper for this woman...
And here are the pics of our Birthday Lunch with Katoo
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