Please Tell Me Im Not Alone....

So sorry. She must have really felt excluded. We ALL forget stuff. I just got the call from my vet about an appointment I should have made for today. My poor dog is finally getting better and I blow off the appointment. Tomorrow morning.

My middle son (17) has had a cold for a couple weeks. Past few days he is coughing his head off, since he has a history of asthma, I decided it was time to bring him in so they could listen to his chest. Been about a thousand years since I've had to take a kid to the doctor for anything other than yearly exams (yes, this'll happen to YOU too someday!).

So, I called the docs office, Barbara answers the phone, I say, Hi Barbara this is blah blah blah and launch into a 5 minute explanation.

About half way through I'm mid sentence and Barbara cuts me off (RUDE!) and says, WAIT, sorry to cut you off Mrs. Carey, you DO realize this is the DENTISTS office right?

BAHAWAHA! I have the docs and the dentist's office numbers together of course, both names start with a P, and both numbers start with an 8.

Sigh.

Thing is, this is NOT THE FIRST TIME I"VE DONE IT! Barbara and I had a good chuckle about it.

10 years ago, I brought the same kid to his very bfs birthday party the DAY AFTER, it was a very dark day of motherhood.

No you are not alone!

:)

You feel bad because your a good mom, give your self a break. Two weeks ago I showed up bright early for a birthday party at minature golf. So here I am waiting and no one else is here I check with the place and the party is on Sunday I go home check the invite and yep it was Sunday. Once I told me daughter it was Sunday she cried and cried, I almost cried with her. Long story even longer we ended up staying and playing a round of mini golf because I felt soo bad.

I moved a lot growing up and after I was married. But I had lived in various different places in Central and Southern California until we moved to Washington state in January the year my oldest was in third grade. One morning, we woke up to snow. I didn't think much of it (other than "pretttttyyyy!" ) and bundled up my son and sent him off to the bus stop. I could see the bus stop from my window and I watched as he stood there and stood there and stood there... I was just about to go get him and drive him to school and I saw someone stop and talk to him and then he started home. The driver of the car had informed him that there was no school today. Snow day! I was so embarrassed! Checking the news in the morning to see if my kids would go to school was a foreign concept to me. We seem to have lived in snowy places ever since and it took me a really long time to get used to the whole "snow day" thing!

Oh, poor mommy and poor girlie! It sucks when then stuff happens and when we know it's our fault, but I promise every mom has done this in one form or fashion.

Give yourself a break and give her a few minutes and she will have recovered. If you want to make the both of you feel better, then I would just spend some quality time with her doing something she would really like, like painting her nails or playing outside together.

Um LOL not at you but with you! I have to keep being reminded about my daughter's dance classes. I keep forgetting :( Hang in there. Hugs!

Yesterday I was so busy juggling work+son+grocery shopping+medical appointments etc...I forgot the keys of the car right IN the car all night long...this morning I was taking my son to school and had to go back upstairs because I couldn't find the keys anywhere in my purse and needed the copy...ugh. When I found out I left them in the car, I re-lived my day in my mind and went: "Of course! I could I NOT forget something". I think we mamas just need to forgive ourselves sometimes!

Yes. Field trips [or so I thought there was one]. Snow days [they don't always post them before 7am!]. I know there are others.

And I've got one better... I forgot to buckle the infant seat for my son.... TWICE. Thank God I didn't get into an accident! The sitter made me feel better about it by saying she'd done it too.

Or... I couldn't get my Jeep Wrangler top up one morning and it was raining pretty good... I was thankful that my sitter was closeby, but I was sobbing the whole way there, apologizing to my kids for having to ride in my Jeep with the top down. My sitter let me borrow her vehicle to get to work, 30mi away. By the time I'd gotten to the sitters, it was pouring! She only lived 3mi away from us. I always gave my sitter extra clothes for my kids just in case and good thing I did!

Oh honey, go easy on yourself. You didn't abandon your child, you just missed a date on the calendar and oh well. I think I've gone to drop my daughter off a preschool only to find them closed, oh well. There's lots of hiccups that happen in life, certainly your daughter will be over it quickly. But just think, what a good thing that she likes school so much she wants to stay anyway! That's a success story!

It happens to everyone! Let's try and turn this into a positive situation-

Aren't you so lucky that you daughter loves going to preschool so much?! She obviously enjoys being there and the teacher obviously enjoys her job and having your daughter there!

Routines, schedules and habit are good for most days and most things- this week they just failed you a little!

Give yourself a break and be happy that you have such a motivated little girl who likes school now!