Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Lost tooth, moldy bread and a sitter with the flu!
Wake up before the sun and hope that you get a good jump on the day. Who is prepared for a lost tooth, moldy bread and a sitter with the flu? We are! Turn on my phone to get the 2nd of 2 messages from my babysitter whose message yesterday went on and on about her having the flu and not wanting to infect the kids. Today she announces that she is still sick and that "You know how I told you that this would be my last week, well, looks like last week was really my last week! UGGGHH! Now I have got to scramble and put together a plan for the remainder of the week for childcare! Riley had just lost a tooth at school yesterday and wrote the tooth fairy a note asking for $20 because, as she states in the note, that is what her friends are collecting from the tooth fairy. She later commented on the bus stop "My tooth fairy is cheap!" A mother's dream statement. At the breakfast table she pulls out the second loose tooth and, unlike the one at school I imagine, it doesn't stop bleeding right away and she goes into a full blown panic! Then to top it off, I throw the napkin holding the tooth into the full trash can among many other tissues...another round of panic stricken cries including "The tooth fairy won't come now" My daughter is 10 so you know what I want to scream back, but I hold it in and go on! My husband, who cannot stand anything "yucky" decides to take my son to school to escape the blood and cries. As he leaves my daughter, finally calming down asks "Is this mold on my pumpkin bread?" Why yes, yes it is, I heard mold is good for you...switch to cereal! Finally I get her out to the bus stop, bleeding stopped, hopes of that $20 still in her mind and a semi-satisfying breakfast in her belly. Of course on the way to work I listen to the radio and hear the many reports of children being abducted or missing and I think of my less than savy 10 and 11 year olds who will be coming home alone today and waiting for me....it all makes me a little bit more crazy with each passing day! All I can say is UGGGH!
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