I decided to look on line at his teachers weekly parent letter to see who was student of the week this week to see if I had time to order the book. (It is done alphabetically so I figured I could see who it was and look at his class list to see how many more students were before him.)
I got to the parent letter from last week, scrolled down and the letter said:
Student of the week this week Tre.
Next week Sept. 24-28 Big L.
I immediately had tears in my eyes. How could I have missed this??? I first felt so sorry for Big L that he had gone through almost the entire week knowing that his mommy forgot to send pictures. I thought that he must not have said anything because he did not want me to feel bad (yes, even at 6 he really thinks of things like that). Then I thought about what his teacher must be thinking, 'oh, poor mommy of three little children, she just can't get it together." or worse, "there goes Big L's mommy again, that flaky parent, no wonder it is so difficult for Big L to get his work done on time." Then came the selfish thoughts, that I would not get to make the cute book, or scrapbook something special and have his teacher tell me what a wonderful job I did on it.
I cannot understand how this happens. How do our emotions change so unexpectedly? How can there be absolutely no warning. One moment you are fine, going on with your day, and wham you are in tears. I was amazed at how quickly I could produce tears. I was sick about the whole thing, and on a mission.
I decided I would find several pictures of Big L and print them up for him to take to school on Friday. I spent the next hour going through picture CDs (so much for the fridge I had planned on cleaning). I also pulled all of the layouts that had Big L in them and put them all in one album.
When Big L got home from school I asked him if he was student of the week. He said that he didn't know. Well, at least he was not feeling like his mommy did not care about him. I figured his teacher must not have made a big deal about the fact that he did not have pictures to share. I was just glad we at least had Friday left to send pictures and Big L could take show and tell. Now, this all did not make me feel much better, but at least I could make Big L feel special for one day if not all week. Seriously, HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS??
Turns out, it was a typo. He is student of the week next week. Whew! Well, at least it got me to look through old pictures and find these:
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I think we all miss something some time or another. For example this morning was Mom's and Muffins at school, and we had talked about it all week, and this morning came around and I forgot. So I was the only mom dropping off a kid this morning because all the other kids were already there because their wonderful moms took them. I felt so bad. I just kept telling them sorry, and Lexi said "it's o.k. mom" all sad. Bad mommy moment.
Oh my!! I got tears in my eyes too! I love the pictures, and I want you to e-mail me that one of them and RJay in the tire---how cute!!! I never saw that picture!
Yea! Another place to see Dean photos...and scrapbook pages.
As the teacher who has been to make typos - and forget to notify a parent their child will be student of the month, I cringed at the pain I have caused.
kiersten,
i can so relate. what's hysterical (and pathetic) is how quickly we start berating ourselves at what terrible mommies we are over something relatively minor.
thank goodness you got a week's reprieve to be the perfect mom!
great photos.
That a boy Big L. Using the "I don't know" good politician tactic again. At this rate, this kid is gonna be the class president! (by the way, notice how I never get involved in any of the planning, I don't like tears!)
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