Nothing Compares reprise

So I have been up to my ears with potty training these last few weeks. We have been training Scarlet since the summer and quite frequently, Skye will jump on the bandwagon. It has been very interesting around my house lately as I have been bouncing from one accident to the other. Potty training a special needs child has been a far bigger task than I ever imagined. I feel rather determined to do it since the specialist who diagnosed her said she would never be potty trained! I am trying to keep this blog real....so, I have composed, or rather re-written a song. I needed to add a bit of humor. If you have long past the point of potty training and would rather it remain a far distant memory, then just skip this blog. If you are relatively near a potty training experience, then perhaps this song is just the thing you need. If you have never had the pleasure of living through a potty training experience then you might find my reference to bodily fluids a bit over the top...to you I apologize and ask you to venture no farther on the page. To the rest, may this resonate! It is to the tune of Sinead O'Connor's song, "Nothing Compares To You"....


It's been seven months and twenty days
Since I took all the diapers away OOOOOOO
Since they've been gone it can flow wherever it wants
It can hide in corners of rooms
We're stayin' away from fancy restaurants
Stayin away from curtains and couches too
Cause nothin'
I said nothin' compares
Nothin' compares to poo

We go out and I'm nervous
When I stay in, I wait,
For a tell-tale sign or two OOOOO
Nothin' can stop me as I yell "wait!" "wait!"
"Just keep on holdin' it in!!"
I think I'm faster now than when I was eighteen
But it's been months of living on the edge
I keep talkin' to the therapists and guess what they told me
Guess what they told me
They said don't go back to diapers, girl, whatever you do
It's just so cruel
Cause nothin compares
Nothin' compares to poo

All the undies that I'm washing, mama, in the laundry room
Aren't going to go away!
I know that potty trainin', baby, is sometimes hard
So I hope it ends real soon
Cause
Nothin' compares
Nothin' compares
Nothin' compares
Nothin' compares
to poo.