Mystery Pee

I realize it's been quite some time since my last post, but such is life with kids. Today though, I was inspired by the most disgusting of happenings a mom encounters - Mystery Pee. Now maybe this is something that only happens to moms of boys, but since that's all I knew for years, Mystery Pee has always been a part of my post-parent life.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of Mystery Pee, let me fill you in on this delight. Mystery Pee is the phenomenon that happens in any bathroom children use regularly. You walk into the bathroom and all one smells is pee. The longer you investigate, the less you know the source. It is perhaps the single most frustrating thing a mom can encounter because, of course, Dad doesn't smell it.

The next step in dealing with Mystery Pee is to find it. You can't use smell because it's everywhere. It's rank permeates the atmosphere of the entire room. The only way to conquer the beast is to start cleaning. Moms always start with the potty and sometimes on that rare shining occasion it works. However, you then don't have Mystery Pee, you just have a dirty toilet. Us real supermoms are not at all impressed with that. After all, that is just Tuesday in this house.

No, you must search harder for The Pee. Obviously, we then clean every square inch of flooring surrounded the said potty, but that will never do. We move on to the surfaces of cabinets, the trash can, the edges of the tub, the dark corners of the bathroom (wait, there's that item I've been looking for for weeks), the towels, the soap dish, the toothbrush holder, etc, etc, ETC!!!

The truth behind Mystery Pee is that you never really know where it was originally located. That is the most frustrating part because then you can't start there the next time you encounter it. There is no clear, concise solution to The Mystery Pee. You just have to freaking white glove clean the entire stinking bathroom! It is just one of those parenting "things" that makes you go UGH, but we all have to deal with it. Only the real super-parents are willing to admit it.