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Why We Stopped Going House to House for the Holidays

We hit a breaking point. We were so tired of rushing from house to house; we had truly begun to dread holidays. It was time to make a change for our family.

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Has Hobby Lobby entered the world of emotionally persuasive holiday short-form cinema? It would certainly seem so! And their Christmas ad effort is 100% geared toward what is undoubtedly their most loyal customer: busy (exhausted, out-of-time) moms.

“This Christmas I Want Food”: What These Foster Kids Want For Christmas Is Heartbreaking

None of them asked for this year’s hottest toy, or another video game to add to their collection. No, the children who filled out these tags listed their “innermost dreams”—things that should be part of everyone’s childhood.

TikTok Mom Roasts Herself After Hilarious Years-Long Mess-Up With Her Middle Child

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.

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“It’s okay, it was only 2 years,” says one commenter. “I found out when I was 18, that my birthday was the day before. 18 YEARS of the wrong day. Oh and I’m the MIDDLE too.”
“I gotta check facebook for my kids birthdays way more often than I’d like to admit,” says another.
This last one might be my favorite comment of all though.
“My grandpa passed away when he was 100. We realized when we were completing his obituary that he’d been celebrating the wrong date all 100 yrs.”
100 years?? Let’s just say I’m glad Grandpa never had to find out about that one while he was still here on earth!
Hats off to Emily Vondy for keeping it real! What’s your silliest parenting mishap?
Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapsonhttp://www.foreverymom.com
Jenny Rapson is a wife and mom of three from Ohio and the editor of For Every Mom. You can also find her alternately griping and gushing about her kids at her own blog, Mommin' It Up. You can email her at jrapson@outreach.com, or follow her on Twitter.

Why We Stopped Going House to House for the Holidays

We hit a breaking point. We were so tired of rushing from house to house; we had truly begun to dread holidays. It was time to make a change for our family.

WATCH: Hobby Lobby Lights Up Mom Hearts With Viral Christmas Ad

Has Hobby Lobby entered the world of emotionally persuasive holiday short-form cinema? It would certainly seem so! And their Christmas ad effort is 100% geared toward what is undoubtedly their most loyal customer: busy (exhausted, out-of-time) moms.

“This Christmas I Want Food”: What These Foster Kids Want For Christmas Is Heartbreaking

None of them asked for this year’s hottest toy, or another video game to add to their collection. No, the children who filled out these tags listed their “innermost dreams”—things that should be part of everyone’s childhood.