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Too often as a mom, the fight instinct takes hold here and I just can’t help, but feel a meltdown coming on from either myself or my kids.

Like the time that my oldest wrote her name with perfect penmanship on our white, painted walls.

Written beautifully and had to give her an A for her penmanship, even if it was on our wall!

Written beautifully and had to give her an A for her penmanship, even if it was on our wall!

Of the time, that my younger daughter bawled her eyes out over Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer postal stamps thinking they were kid’s tattoos I was hoarding all for myself.

The Rudolf Stamps In Question

The Rudolf Stamps In Question

Even better, the time my husband decided to cheat on me during a game of Trivia crack.

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Still even yesterday, when I was trying to find the match to one of my girl’s socks that just plain seemed to disappear from the laundry into the washing machine.  I mean really, what is up with socks that seem to fall in the black hole of lost and missing socks when I do laundry.  Seriously, it never fails!

The above are just some instance of meltdowns that have occurred in my house in the last few months by myself, my kids and even my husband, too with some picture evidence added for good measure.

Now its your turn!

See the ladies (myself included) of The Mother Of All Meltdowns are asking all to tweet using the hashtag #MyMotherOfAllMeltdowns or share on our Facebook page your own meltdown photos for a chance to win a Keurig 2.0 now through April 30th.

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Photos can be of actual meltdowns (kids’ or adults’), what makes moms meltdown (i.e. a science project); the aftermath of a meltdown (i.e broken wine glass), what calms the meltdown (i.e. FULL wine glass!).

*The winner will be announced on May 8th.

Trust me when I tell you that that my own Keurig, which makes a great cup of Joe has indeed helped to fight the urge when I do indeed feel a meltdown coming on for me.

Good luck to all that enter and can’t wait to see all the meltdown worthy photos now!

Show your meltdown chance 2 win Keurig 2.0 from @MOAMthebook Tag #MyMotherofAllMeltdowns #1word

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This post was written for the One Word Blog Linkup that is hosted by Lisa of The Golden Spoons (who is off this week on vacation), Marcia of Blogitudes and yours truly, too.

The words for this week are: Yesterday or Fight; Please feel free to linkup and join us this week.

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About Janine

Janine is a published author of the books, The Mother of All Meltdowns and Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, Mamapedia, Today Parenting Team and SheKnows. She also runs her own graphic design company at J9 Designs.

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  1. Allie says

    HAHAHAHA OMG this is such a great idea! The problem is, I don’t think I have any photographic evidence b/c I’m usually going nuts trying to rectify whatever meltdown is happening. However, there’s usually at least a few per week around here so I will keep this in mind!

    • Janine says

      I know totally hard to remember to take the pic as it is happening sometimes, but hope you do and look forward to seeing it if you do, too 😉

  2. Bev says

    I should have taken a photograph of a couple toys to be put away last night that led to probably the biggest meltdown I have seen Eve have so far. Oh toddlerhood (and i’m only at the beginning!)

    • Janine says

      Bev, I know those meltdowns well and now we have them when we ask the girls to clean their toy messes up themselves here. Fun times – NOT!

  3. Stephanie says

    I try to ask myself nowadays which I would rather be – happy, or right. Fighting, losing my temper, etc. usually doesn’t achieve being happy, even if I’m actually right.

    • Janine says

      I know it doesn’t, but sometimes sadly this does still win out when you are the mom to small kids day in and day out.

  9. Jhanis says

    We’ve been holed up in the house for weeks due because we are taking turns getting sick, you can bet that I’ve seen more meltdowns to last me a lifetime! Ugh. How I wish I can join the contest! LOL

    • Janine says

      I wish you could, too and seriously though the illnesses and being cooped up are the absolute worst with kids. You know I have been there and so done that!

  10. Diane Roark says

    Janine,

    You make me smile every time I read one of your posts. I know what when you are going through a difficult time it is NOT funny, but I have to smile. I can remember so many of my own personal family stories that are very similar. Although they may not be funny when we experience them, we have to smile at them later. I have learned these stories make a great lessons for everyone so smile and share them.

    Thanks for sharing!
    Blessings,
    Diane

  11. Andrea Bates says

    Oh, I love this. I don’t know if I have pics, have to dig through some old ones … but I tweeted it out for you guys and will try to enter!

  13. Bill says

    I guess I can’t play this game. 🙂 I will say that meltdowns diminish in number the older you get, so I guess there are advantages to aging. 🙂 Happy Wednesday, Janine.

  14. karen says

    great post…I have a bunch of crazy photos!!!! will have to find them. Though one I never got a pic of was the time Dino decided to color on our couches, walls, and tables with a dry erase marker…so hard to get out of fabric.

  15. Marcia @ Blogitudes says

    I should have taken a picture of my found sock this past Saturday. LOL 🙂 I recently bought myself some new socks. Washed and dried the first pair on Saturday. When the laundry load was done, Bill got the clothes out of the dryer and brought the basket upstairs for me to fold and put away. When the folding was done, I had only 1 sock and was on the verge of a considerable meltdown. I unfolded most of the clothes I’d just folded to see if the missing sock was attached to one of them. Nope. Started ranting to Bill saying “how can socks just disappear” etc . A few minutes later, he went downstairs again (probably just to get away from me) – and there on the steps was my missing sock. It had fallen out of the basket when he carried it up. I was re-folding clothes when he appeared in the doorway and held it out for me to take as though it were a live snake and one of us might bite him for having dropped it. I didn’t. Think I laughed instead … and felt silly for having made such a big deal over a sock. 🙂 Great post, Janine. I loved it!

    • Janine says

      Marcia, it is seriously the socks. They drive me batty daily, especially with my girls who take them off and don’t remember where they put them! 😉

  21. Jennifer | The Deliberate Mom says

    Ooooh, I just read about this on Lisa’s blog and had so many great meltdown moments today!! I forgot! Although they weren’t photos people would like to see (like my 3-year-old peeing in a decorative basket)!

    I’ll have to keep this in mind over the next couple of weeks.

    Thanks for sharing.
    xoxo

    • Janine says

      Jennifer, what is with 3 year old and peeing where ever they can?! Seriously though can’t wait to see what you come up with 😉 xoxo

  22. Kim says

    Sad – these days my meltdowns are fewer than when my kids were little but they are usually epic. I guess the fact that they are rare means I bottle stuff up and then I tend to just lose it completely – it is not pretty:)

  23. Robin (Masshole Mommy) says

    My little man has more meltdowns than any kid I have ever seen. I post them all to FB, too 😉

  24. Jen says

    Challenge accepted! I am sure a meltdown moment will come fairly soon. Yesterday the toddler really outdid herself with her attempts to pretty much leave the house and all of the occupants in it razed to the ground 🙂

  25. Corinne Rodrigues says

    Ha ha… I can empathise about the socks. I found mine in another city! Seriously. It seems I left one in our Mumbai home on our last visit and brought one back here. I looked high and low for it, only to find it in Mumbai sitting happily in the sock drawer! 😉

  26. Rosey says

    What a fun contest. And the prize is nothing to sneeze at either, Keurigs are my most favorite non-person thing. 😉

  27. Eli@coachdaddy says

    The best is when a kid writes her name where it doesn’t belong, then says, “I didn’t do that!” (Maybe the girls write their sisters’ names on things to frame them, now to think of it!”)

    I won’t chance photographing a meltdown from my girls (it’s like photographing hyenas just before feeding time), but maybe I can capture what the meltdown looks like on a dad!

    • Janine says

      Eli, I got more of the, “Did you see what Emma did?” after Emma went to school! So, trust me sisterly love of burying the other is alive and well here! And now I can’t wait to see your melting down face 😉

  28. Leslie says

    Oh, goodness. I wish I had more evidence of our more recent meltdowns. Seriously, just this morning the 5 year old was melting down over not getting the waffle she turned down. I wish I understood their brains better!

  29. Rea says

    I have lots of meltdown photographs. HAHAHA. It’s funny that we document those things as they happen even when we felt so mad at the time of meltdown. LOLR

  30. Tamara says

    I photographed a Scarlet meltdown once and it was so cute that I put it on Facebook and everyone was like, “Whatever it is, get it for her! I will too! A puppy or a pony!”
    She’s much cuter during a meltdown when I am, I’ll tell you!

  31. Aunt Gloria says

    The contest should be interesting. I won’t participate but I am on the verge of a meltdown. My computer is showing signs of age and everything is very slow. My cell phone is running out of space for new downloads. I’ll cope…..I’ll go eat chocolate! See you Sunday. xxoo

  32. April G says

    I was supposed to turn the CrossFit post to fit this prompt, but completely forgot and have been gone all day. Gonna search the photos to see if I can find proof. 🙂

  34. Dana says

    I have no photographic proof of my meltdowns, and since they usually involve me looking completely batty, that’s a good thing!

  35. Kristi Campbell says

    I wish I could join! I got really upset last night – Tucker’s school let out early yesterday, I was trying to work, and still play so was on a conference call then outside playing then inside and he got mad and I got mad…sigh. Also I totally need to write a post for this!

    • Janine says

      You could most certainly write about this to lead in for this and trust me I could so sadly relate as we had a whole week with spring break sounding quite similar here, as well.

  37. The Dose of Reality says

    Both of my children have also written on our walls…one of them (she shall remain nameless, but let’s just say her name sounds a lot like Abby) did it in Sharpie! Fun times! Love this idea and can’t wait to share it!-Ashley

  38. The Pinterested Parent says

    Oh my goodness. Meltdowns we have in the plenty here. They range from meltdowns over her favorite black & purple striped pants being in the laundry to having a banana that fell into two pieces. They strike at anytime. The funny thing is I remember each and every meltdown that you wrote about above from when they happened. LOL! A Keurig is a great prize. WOW!

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