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My kids got 4 packs of Bubblicious bubble gum for Valentine’s day. I don’t know if my kids like gum any more or less than the next kid, but they’d probably chew it to replace meals, if I’d let them.

So Wednesday morning, my daughter brings the package of ‘Savage Sour Apple’ to me while I’m writing my blog, and asks for some gum. She bats her eyes and swings her bottom and says “plllleezz”. It’s before breakfast…but I can’t resist. So I get out a piece, twist in half, take one half, twist in half, and give her a fourth, I pop a quarter in myself and then tell her to take the other half to her brother. She happily skips off taking the bubble gum to her brother.

Could you say no to this face?

I continue to type my blog, chewing along, blowing a few Bubblicious bubbles. After a bit, a quarter piece of gum REALLY loses it’s flavor. It lasts about 3 minutes and then turns nasty. No, I mean NAsssTY!

So I spit it into my hand and turn to grab a kleenex so I can wrap it up before throwing it in the trash. Out of the corner of my eye, I see the gum slip and fall. I’m still in my pajamas.

I pat myself down, figuring the gum will be wet and obvious. It’s not there! Where did it go? I check under my bottom, did I sit on it already? I check the floor, maybe it fell to the floor…I don’t see it…Then I stand up and look…come on…it’s gum…it’s bright pink…why can’t I find it???!! It is really frustrating to lose something while sitting in one place. How does that happen?? I pat my pajamas again, feel inside the pockets…three times….Finally, after 3 minutes that feels like 15 I decide it’s lost forever and sit down to finish checking my email.

2 hours later….it’s time for me to shower finally…off go the socks…off goes the bottoms…off goes the glasses…off goes the top…what tha’….stuck to my skin…under my right sagging post-nursing two kids breast…ewww!!!! Gross! Then to peel it off. OW!

I’m giving up gum for Lent.