Here’s how I know I’m back in the running for Mother of the Year.

Insert Tyra Banks voiceover: “(Name), you are still in the running towards becoming America’s Next.Top.Model.” Man! She kills me with that most awkward of sentences.

Anyway, here it is.

I just sewed a strap, the diameter and length of a piece of floss, back onto a Barbie dress the size of thong sized panty liner. Got out my needle and thread, and not just any ol‘ thread, mind you. I actually coordinated the thread to the rest of the stitching. Purple.

I am totally setting myself up for irrational demands going forward. But isn’t that motherhood is about?