Let’s face it, as moms we're usually juggling a million things. Whether it has been getting the home ready for a playgroup of toddlers while carpooling between swim lessons and baseball practice or some other variation of this - when those balls come tumbling down, those unexpected moments have lead to some hysterical stories! Well, Swiffer wants to hear about your funniest motherhood cleaning moment.
By entering your story in the below comments section, you’re entered to win a redesigned Swiffer WetJet and Refills to help you through those future “Mom Moments.” Swiffer’s redesigned WetJet allows new moms to better clean their floors while the Antibacterial Solution leaves their floors hygienically cleaner. Three winners will be chosen between now until July 23! 
By Beth Feldman, RoleMommy.com (co-hostess 2009)
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my 18-month old pretended that a black ink pad was a phone…hence the black ink all over one side of her head! we were able to even do an earprint on paper! and, yes, there was ink all over the house too! ah the joys.
The only one I have so far being a new mom is a diaper explosion that went out my sons neck of his shirt and all over his bumbo and out bothe legs of his shorts…Gross I know…but my only one yet.
Best mom cleaning moment?? Is there a such thing? Yesterday my 18 month old squeezed an entire tube of toothpaste all over himself and the floor, while I was cleaning that mess up he decided to pull all the keys off our new apple laptop, I decided he needed food, and then as I was loading the dishwasher after lunch he emptied a huge bag of cereal onto my livingroom carpet (this is not an abnormal day). He’s an absolute disaster!
My best mom cleaning moment is when I found my (then) about 18 month old son on the kitchen floor eating “I Cannot Believe It’s Not Butter” out of the Sam’s Club sized tub with an ice scraper. He was a slippery mess!
How to choose…
Yesterday, my 19mo son stopped coloring on his coloring page and started coloring on the wall. I told him he couldn’t color on the wall and took him back to his coloring page, where I started commenting on how pretty his coloring was. He took my hand, walked me back to the wall, pointed proudly, and said, “Pretty wall!” Looks like we have a ways to go before he gets the whole coloring boundaries thing…
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I’d have to think about the best… might be when my two oldest (at the time 3 and 5) took all of the stuffing out of the cushions on the new couch…. What a mess that was to clean up - was finding little balls of stuffing for DAYS!
Hmmm, Josh was a collicky baby and had many diaper messes. I guess one of the “best” was when He peed all over …and as I was cleaning that up he had a VERY loose movement all over the changing mat. I finally gave up and just gave him a bath in the sink. My best day ever was when he finished potty training!
The other night, my 2 year old daughter woke up with vomit in her bed and a VERY stinky loose diaper. That’s not too big of a deal unless you’re extremely sensitive to smells (pregnant!) and trying to hold your own vomit in so you don’t scare your child!
My best mom cleaning moment is when my kids WANT to clean!! Now that is something else.
My best cleaning moment is when I am done! I love the relaxing feel of a clean room to sit in!
My 15 month old is learning to clean up her messes with a rag. She’ll start with a clean surface and let her sippy cup drip a few drops of water and then swipe it dry. She does this until the carpet underneath her is soaked and her cup is empty if I don’t stop her first. I laughed the first time, she still laughs.
Sadly, there was the time my 3 yr. old son pooped on his floor and then proceeded to drive his hotwheels cars THROUGH it because it made great tracks all over the floor…..and the wall…..and the furniture! That’s what I get for taking a 20 min. catnap!
As guests were starting to arrive at my 4 year olds’ birthday party, my husband opened a 2 liter bottle of root beer that promptly exploded all over the entire kitchen. The ceiling, the cabinets, the walls, everywhere. Fortunately, 4-year-olds love a sticky mess.
Anyone ever had to clean up red (still liquid) jello off their travertine floors…needless to say there were many tears shed amongst all the scrubbing…my floor has never been the same since.
The most recent that comes to mind is when I asked my daughter to help clear the dishes from the dinner table (you know, to teach some responsibility). After she was done, I found a trail of salt from the shaker (which she carried through the kitchen upside-down) all the way through the kitchen and onto the counter. What a good helper!!!
My favorite mommy cleaning moment was the day I walked into the kitchen to find my 18-month-old daughter scrubbing the floor with a baby wipe. CLEARLY I need a Swiffer Wet Jet!!
I was changing my 8 month old daughter in the living room and realized I didn’t have wipes (it as a poop) so I ran down to her room for wipes. I was gone for like 20 seconds and in that time she had crawled-sat, crawled-sat all over the living room carpet, leaving nice poop prints from one end of my living room to the other! From then on I ALWAYS changed her on the changing table
My favorite “grandma” cleaning moment was watching my 9 year old grandson trying to clean the tile floor with a big, heavy, fancy, hot steamer cleaner. He had a very difficult time, but did a great job. I am thinking that by winning this, I could make his job tons easier. Thanks for the chance.
Cheryl Sims
My best cleaning moment with my twins was when they both decided that vacuuming was cool! They still love it.
Erin Linton
My husband packed the diaper bag for church (1st mistake) and forgot to pack wipes, so we had 2….count them….2 wipes! Things would have been just fine, but our little girl started pooping 5 minutes after we got to church! Not thinking much of it, I went to change her and it was EVERYWHERE! Up her back, down her legs, all over her dress! By the time I got her dress off of her, it was smeared up her back up to her neck! So, I open the wipes and…2 WIPES!!! So, I cleaned up what I could, and then went for the wet paper towels! By the time I was done, there were wipes and paper towels EVERYWHERE! Then I look for an extra outfit in her bag and low and behold I forgot I only had a old pair of yellow pajamas! So needless to say, I couldn’t hold a straight face as I walked back into the chapel with my baby in her yellow pajamas…..she did look cute and dressed for church when we got there!
My 2 year old was quiet. Hmm. So I checked on her. She was in the middle of my kitchen and it looked like a Christmas tree exploded on her. She had shaken my rosemary all over! It was easy to clean, though her hair wasn’t!
I love Swiffer! The best thing for me is when my 6 year old asks every 2 min. if she can use my Swiffervac to clean the floor. It is her favorite. (and mine)
green crayon left in the pocket of my son’s clothes. melted in the dryer of course. We still wear some of those green stained clothes!
I still remember having to clean up a toothpaste masterpiece a 2 year old made on the bathroom mirror. I thought he was being so nice and quiet brushing his teeth all by himself. If he’s being quiet, he’s not being nice!
hmmmmmmmmm there are so many. I would say stamps with ink pads. Oh the places you can stamp!
My best mom cleaning moment was when my baby girl was 2 months old - she threw up on herself and pooed out her onesie at the same time - and all over me. We jumped in the shower with all our clothes on and then I got to clean out the tub while she lay on the floor on a towel
That’s the most cleaning I’ve done in a day!
My best mom cleaning moment was while cleaning, I walked into the bathroom, and my 3 year old daughter had the toilet brush in her hand and asked if she could “stir the toliet.”
My best moment was when my son smeared Desitin all over everything! Not easy to get out!
My favorite is while I was cleaning the bathroom I noticed my toddler was quiet, which is a rarity. So, I went looking for him and found he had swiped a body butter container clean….covering his hair, face, body, hands. Good times.
My 10 mo old son managed to climb up & pull down a potted plant on a low windowsill and began feasting on it. I found him with a big handfuls of dirt in each hand & all over his face.
With three kids four and under, there’s a mess a minute! Like the time our daughter shook a bottle of baby powder everywhere - at least that smelled good. Or when our youngest got in the fridge and brought out the strawberry syrup and squirted it all over the living room - what a sticky mess.
My best cleaning moment was when my husband was tossing our son up in the air and the baby spit up. Some got right smack in my husbands mouth since he was looking up at the baby (payback man!) and then I had to clean off everyone’s clothes and get my husband a sweet treat to take the nasty taste out!
We had just moved into our new house, out in the country, that had tile and wood floors in it so I purchased my first Swiffer WetJet, my 13 year old daughter was just in love with it and used it frequently, which was great. One morning as we were getting ready for school and work, there was a great commotion at our front door, the one with the “Cat” door entry for our outside cats to come in, the next thing I know my great big 20 pound cat was chasing a rather large red squirrel through my living room…scared me and my daughter to death, it all happend so fast we were not sure what was in the house, we hid in my bedroom until we just couldn’t take it anymore then we armed ourselves to go out and face what ever creature of nature our big cat chased inside, we armed ourselves with two weapons that everyone should keep handy for protection…I had an empty laundry basket and my daughter grabbed the Swiffer WetJet!! She felt safe! We did finally get the critter chased out of the house, but that is a whole ‘nother story! But we love our Swiffer!
My most eventful mom cleaning moment happened when my two year old suddenly realized she needed to go to the potty and went ahead and took off her underwear before she got out of bed. She didn’t even make it to the door before the accidents started. There were several and she wasn’t feeling good. I walked to her door and saw several accidents, but didn’t see the one right in the doorway. As I stepped in (pun intended), I slipped in poo, sliding and smearing and hurting myself pretty well. So the cleanup involved rugs, hardwood floors, bedding, clothes, and people. Not to mention the bandaids.
Probably the most funny mommy cleaning moment I had was when my husband and I had some close friends over for dinner and a movie. Shortly after dinner I noticed my 6 month old was smelling like she had a dirty diaper. I unsnap her onesie and it all comes oozing out, an enormous green, poopy mess. It took us about an hour to get her and the mess under control, but we couldn’t help but laugh about it with our friends. I was just so glad we hadn’t decided to go over to their place!
Well, since I won’t be going to blogher *sigh*…what is the next best thing? Winning a Swiffer of course! What a great giveaway, and since I have a tad bit of an addiction then this would be AWESOME!
that would have to be when my two oldest now 20 & 19 were about 1 & 2 yrs old one threw up in bed late at night so took the sheets of and put them in washer. Then put him in bed with us. A few minutes later my daughter threw up in her crib. Took the sheets and blankets to laundry room. Took her to bed with us. My son threw up again followed immediately by my daughter. Thought it was never gonna end!!!!!!
Clean? Who has time? That’s why I love my swiffer. Would love to try the new model!
After I had just finished cleaning my apartment my 13 month old daughter decided to get sick. First she threw up all over me, her, the couch and carpet. After I stripped her down for a bath she peed all over the clean bathroom floor and to top it all off she POOPPED in my clean shower. AAAHHHHHHH!!!!! I vowed I would never clean again after that night. Well that didn’t last long.
I’m only doggie mom (for now), and am constantly picking up his food nuggets and the dust from them off of the kitchen floor. It seems like right after I clean, I am stepping on more of his food with my bare feet!
As moms, we are always attempting to teach our children to clean & pick up after themselves. However, I have discovered that children can turn the concept of “cleaning” into something entirely different than a task! One of my fav. cleaning moments was a few yrs. ago when I asked our girls to sweep the floor - they both sat on a Barbie train — singing & sweeping as they scooted along on the wheels of the train. I couldn’t help but stop what I was doing & snap a picture. (Didn’t see if I could post it here.)
Oh well… at least our daughters can make me laugh during the cleaning process!
One more fav. moment was just recently. I needed a roll of paper towels & when I went to our closet to retrieve it, I discovered a ball of new paper towels tucked in the corner of the closet. I questioned our daughters… our youngest needed the inner cardboard tube for a craft project, so she removed the towels & found her materials for her project.
My son wrote all over our MAC desk top with a pencil. I was horrified! We eventually got it off with special screen cleaner but I now hide the pencils!
My little girl got into our freezer drawer and got the ice cream out and painted all over the cabinets!!! It was a very sticky mess!
My daughter was getting old enough for responsibilites, so she started loading the dishwasher. One day, we were out of regular dishwasher detergent, so she used liquid dish washing soap instead. We walked into a big bubbly mess, all over the kitchen floor! It was so abundantly foamy, it was hard to clean up.
Using a Swiffer Wetjet, would be a much easier way of cleaning the kitchen floor.
Once I found my little 3 year old son sitting on the floor of the kitchen “finger painting” with a can of chocolate frosting on the cupboards. He looked so cute that despite the mess he had made I had to grab the camera before cleaning it all up.
My favorite cleaner moment was when my husband was willing to replace the toilet when I moved in because he couldn’t get it clean. I told him don’t worry about it….I was pretty sure I could get it clean! Later, when he saw the toilet, I became a “hero” to him!!!
The day after I bought a much-saved-for Pottery Barn desk, my 4-yr-old daughter decided to sit at the desk and do some drawings on a piece of paper using a black permanent marker (that my husband had left around). The marker seeped right through the paper and all over my new desk. Obviously, permanent markers have sinced been banned from this house. (and my daughter almost was, too!)
About a month ago my then six month old son was lounging on the platform of his bounce bounce baby (exersaucer kind of thing). I am trying to get dinner done for dad, clean the kitchen, do the laundry and I hear him start laughing. I turn around and smell poop. He looks fine. I pull him out from under the exersaucer and the diaper falls off onto the newly clean kitchen floor-full of poop. He has poop down his legs, poop up his back and still laughing. He is kicking around on the changing table flinging poop on me and the mirror. I end up putting him in his tub fully clothed and giving him a laundry bath. Thank GOD he is breasfed. The smell wasn’t too unbearable!
The worst mess was when we were on a very long road trip (from MI to FL!) when my baby was 2 months old. It was rush hour on a Monday when we hit Atlanta, we were in the wrong lane and couldn’t get over in time so we missed I75. Lost trying to get back to 75 my daughter is screaming, I notice she had a poopy diaper leak and there was no where to pull over. After we got back to 75 we got off at the next exit and decided to just stay at a hotel for the night… she needed a bath, there was no way any amount of wipes was going to clean this mess! I had to bath her in the small hotel sink! Sorry for the messy washcloths I had to leave behind… I rinsed and rinsed them but it just wouldn’t come clean!
My almost 3 year old decided to grab the large container of powdered mix for chocolate milk from off of the counter. She ran into our bedroom, laid down on the bed and started shaking it violently. The lid popped off and a rain of chocolate powder fell all over her and our bed. We had a chocolate kid and chocolate bathwater as well as chocolate washing machine water. I think I’m still vacuuming up powder from the carpet…
Well just yesterday my 5 year old “helped” me clean–since I was mopping the kitchen, he went upstairs and unknown to me pulled out the vacuum, knocking over a house plant in the process. So I had the pleasure of vacuuming dirt out of the rug after I finished mopping the floor.
While potty training my oldest, she constantly mistook my little one’s Bumbo seat for her potty chair. Luckily it’s easy to wipe clean!
Last week my two year old son got the honey out of the pantry and squirted a blob in each sqauare of tile in our kitchen. I came into the room and he said, “Taaa daaaa! It’s shiney for you!” He was stickey, the floor was stickey…but a what a moment!
Last month my little boy had diaper rash and I had him naked to let his bum air out. When I wasn’t watching, he pooped on my floor and squirmed around in it…it was everywhere. That was a fun mess to clean up!
Our lights went out recently. In the darkness I knocked over a candle that was in a glass jar. I ended up cleaning the glass with a wet paper towel to make sure I got it all. A swiffer would have been nice to have at that moment.
My mom cleaning moment happened when we thought the kids let us sleep in on a Saturday morning….when we got up and went into the living room one of their stuffed toys had the stuffing pulled out in little nickel-sized balls ALL OVER the living room. It looked like it had snowed in there. We now refer to the living room as the toy graveyard since so many stuffed toys have died there!
Taking pride and keeping my first house clean is my best moment. Somehow it is different than cleaning an apartment.