TikTok mom Emily Vondy, is nothing if not honest about the struggles of motherhood. Maybe that’s why her TikTok channel, TheVondyFam, has over two million followers. As a mom myself, I enjoy it when other parents keep it real, and it appears I’m not alone. My oldest is 19 now and I’ve had a lot of parenting mishaps and just plain funny moments. But one of Vondy’s most classic and popular maternal mishap tales of late had even me saying, “Whew, at least I’ve never done that!”
In a video that has over 3 million views on TikTok, Emily Vondy recalls how she was going back and forth on phone calls between her pediatrician’s office and her insurance company, trying to get a charge covered. The issue seemed to be centering on the birthdate of Vondy’s middle child.
Vondy explains:
“I just got off the phone with my pediatrician. She’s trying to bill our last visit to our insurance company,” Vondy said. “Per my words, my son’s birthday is the 26th. I’m his mother; I know his birthday. The insurance company says, ‘No, his birthday is on the 25th.’”
(Uh-oh. I think I can see where this is going!)
Convinced she was correct about her own son’s date of birth (I mean, why wouldn’t that be seared in every mom’s consciousness?), Vondy picked up the phone to give the insurance company a piece of her mind. But before she did, she decided to hit her Facebook feed and scroll back in time to her son’s birth announcement. It was there that she realized she’d been making a mistake for years.
“His birthday is indeed the 25th,” she admitted. “For two years, I’ve been celebrating his birthday on the 26th. Now I have to call my pediatrician back and say, ‘Haha, you know what? I had my kid’s birthday wrong.’”
@thevondyfam How’s your day going? #momfail #mombrain #parenting101 #sahm ♬ original sound – Emily Vondy
Talk about embarrassing! I only have three kids myself, which is not a huge number, and I know all their birthdays like I know my own. I do have to say my youngest’s birthday a bit slowly though. Whenever I’m saying it out loud or writing it down, I always want to confuse the date of birth with the year. Mom brain is real and—real weird sometimes!
All that to say, hey, no mommy’s perfect! As long as our kids are loved and taken care of…and too young to remember their mom messing up their birth date, they’ll be fine! Right?? Right?? LOL!
TikTok Users Relate to Emily Vondy
I’m not the only parent who can relate to Vondy’s mishap: the comments on her TikTok are filled with other moms, dads and middle children piping up about their own experiences.
