I don’t know about you but ever since 2014 started I couldn’t stop but hearing bad news from friends or others around me, a co-worker’s grandson died, my husband had a terrible beginning in Feb, my grandma was in the hospital due to high blood-pressure, friend’s toddler might need to see a specialist to discard autism, and so on. I know it’s called life, but it seems such life happens to be popular for a lot of people during the same days. And that’s excluding my own chaos. So, if my horoscope is correct – which is spot on 4 days out of 5 – I blame it all on Mercury.

As tradition, Valentines wasn’t special. In fact I think it was a total fail, which probably means it was a success considering I’m not into it. But, I really had the thought of correcting past years by doing something special for my 3 year old. I pinned lots of ‘red’ recipes in Pinterest, because that’s what moms do, right?. And I really really wanted to try and see if I could bake and decorate with hearts and sparkles at least on muffins. But work got the best of me and my kid ended with nothing specially crafted for her.

On the other hand things were looking up when she made it home with three bags of goodies. Who would have thought all the good-looking baked goods would last us 30 mins?. I didn’t even have time to react and take a picture for goodness sake. And then, from all the goodies given to us we saw this cute little-tiny-teeny chocolate muffin. We were merciful and decided to eat it the following day. We are good people. Little Miss M said “we’ll share tomorrow mommy. You, Dad and me will share it, kay?.” See? I’m raising good people.

Wake up honey, time to eat the cupcake.

– We are going to share it, right mommy?

Oh honey, I think it’s too small to even cut it.

– It’s ALL for me, right mommy?

Of course sweetie, of course. Damn, I kind of wanted her to give it to me.

On an unrelated note, husband inquired this morning, and by inquiring I mean seriously dropping a comment as to when are we having another kid. I mean hello? don’t you see how devastated I am over the loss of the tiniest and cutest muffin? What a way of stressing a woman over a fact we are not getting any younger and that perhaps it wouldn’t be a good idea to conceive when we are 50!

-Do you know where’s the carseat?

What?

– You know, the car seat we used to put M in when she was a baby?

Uh. She is 4. I sold the whole travelling system 3.5 years ago. You helped me putting the ad for it. Wait. Why?

– Just if we have another baby, we will need one. And we liked that one. You know we are not getting any younger and I don’t want you to conceive when I’m 50.

– Do you want to have another baby?

You know, I bought the travelling system second-handed and it was a 2009 model. That car seat would be SO expired and unable to meet the new requirements.

< insert awkward silence for the next 10 minutes >

I so blame Mercury!