| Moral of the story, never leave home without a | | | | sentence will you find, "grabbed a diaper bag..." So as |
| prepared diaper bag. You never know what you are | | | | you can imagine, I'm frantically searching for an extra |
| going to run into, even if you are just going on a short | | | | outfit and diaper within my car, but am coming up with |
| trip or a short errand. Sometimes those can turn into | | | | nothing because my not so organized self left the |
| longer trips than you expected and you always want | | | | diaper bag at home! |
| to be prepared. You should at least have an extra set | | | | It is at this moment, that I am both frustrated and |
| of clothes and some diapers and wipes along with you | | | | mortified that not only did I forget the diaper bag, but |
| at all times. Even if you don't have a full on diaper bag | | | | now I have driven 15 miles away from my home and |
| you at least need the diapers and the change of | | | | have to take my 6 month old baby into a store with a |
| clothes otherwise this could happen to you. | | | | vivid odor and stained clothing all because I am |
| Some people call it an emergency bag, it contains all of | | | | unprepared. |
| the essentials even if its not the prettiest. It is going to | | | | I quickly stumble inside of the store with a whiny |
| have a change of clothes, diapers, wipes, and maybe | | | | unclean child towards the baby section. This is of |
| a snack or two. If my friend had an emergency bag in | | | | course a detour around the women's clothing because |
| her van then this wouldn't have happened to her. | | | | I now have a crisis on my hands. I jumble through a |
| It was early November and the weather was cool but | | | | rack of infant pajama's, grab a small box of diapers, |
| not yet cold. I was in need of a new outfit for a job | | | | and a container of wipes and head up to the counter |
| interview I had the next morning. Without thinking, I | | | | to pay. After smiling reluctantly at the understanding |
| bundled the baby, put her in her car seat, and headed | | | | clerk I rush to the bathroom and change my |
| out the door to the mall where I planned on quickly | | | | uncomfortable child. After placing her dirty clothing into |
| grabbing an outfit for the next day's events. | | | | a sack and placing them in with my new purchase of |
| While in the car, I heard familiar noises coming for the | | | | diapers and wipes I quickly walk out of the store... |
| backseat. I know all parents, grandparents, aunts, | | | | embarrassed. |
| uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, and so on know the | | | | I place my child's blanket onto the wet portion of the |
| noise well... and for those of you who don't know the | | | | car seat and lay her over to strap her safely in place. I |
| noise the smell is one that no one can forget! | | | | then head back home, entirely forgetting the reason |
| Without worry, I confidently pulled into the parking lot | | | | for my trip in the first place. So the moral of the story |
| with the intent of changing my 6 month old daughter in | | | | is: bring a prepared diaper bag with you whenever you |
| the mall bathroom on one of those not so well | | | | leave your home. The time that you forget the diaper |
| sanitized changing tables. | | | | bag, even if it's for a short trip, will be the time you |
| As I pulled her out of the car seat, my nose filled with | | | | need it the most! Remember this story if you are ever |
| a stench aroma, but I still was not panicked, if anything I | | | | caught unprepared with a dirty diaper on your hands. |
| was just distracted due to the smell. After realizing | | | | Oh and by the way, I didn't get the job... maybe if I was |
| that her outfit was a bit moist from the blow out I | | | | less preoccupied with my own stupidity of forgetting |
| quickly moved my hand to the other side of her | | | | the diaper bag at home and have come more |
| bottom and began frantically feeling around the | | | | prepared readily able to quickly change my infant |
| backseat for the diaper bag. However, if you recall I | | | | daughter, I could have been more focused on the real |
| 'bundled the baby, put her in her car seat, and headed | | | | reason for my trip... finding a nice outfit for the job |
| quickly out the door for the mall.' No where in that | | | | interview! Lesson learned! |