All the other Mommy's knew it was slipper day.

This morning was "one of those mornings". Our days usually start about 6:00 a.m. the normal 3 attempts to get the kids out of bed a mad rush to do the routine and be out of the house by 7:00. I remember homework, library books, breakfast, notes, medication, a reminder to brush the teeth, jackets, hair, take the dog out, feed and water her, the to do list for after school. I go over the strainger danger rules. The reminder to take the neighbors dog out afterschool. Car seats for carpool, and of course dropped off the forgotten tennis shoes to the Jr. High. I made my lunch, and remembered the item I needed to drop off to Mike at his office. (and people wonder why I am addicted to diet coke) But this morning Morgan woke up unusually in a bad mood. She is usually my easy going kid in the mornings but not today. By 7:15 I had lost my patience for the morning in a panic because staff meeting was going to start at 8:00 a.m. and I still hadn't left the house yet. I was less than pleasant to the kids and counldn't figure out why Morgan was upset. ( a maniac mom perhaps) So I tried to recover the morning with an apology and an I Love you. By the time I got them to daycare this morning Morgan says to me Mom, when will we get new slippers? I thought to myself well that's a random question for a morning like this. I hopped into the van, headed to work sacrificing the Maverick stop (for all you who know me know that is a very dangerous decision) to attempt to make it to some part of the morning meeting. I pulled out on the main road out of tooele and I heard "All the other Mommy's remembered it was slipper day!" Crap slipper day I had totally forgotten about spirit week and today was slipper day. Seriously, what kind of Mom can't remember that. I had to turn the car toward Walmart and go get slippers. Of course Wal-mart 364 days a year have plenty of slippers in stock, but not today the one day I need them. So Thad ended up with a pair that was too small, and Morgan with a pair that was too big. I hurried through the register knowing that every second counts now to the one checker that was open but apparently hadn't clocked in yet. She needed to finish her conversation with the other co-worker passing by. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How important is staff meeting anyway. Seriously in the grand scheme of things did I really need to be there............this is what kept running through my head and then it hit me serously was I contemplating on saying that to my boss? I was worse off then the I thought, I really needed that Diet coke. I ran the slippers back to daycare and was greeted by 2 of the absolute cutest kids with the biggest grins on their faces. It was all worth it. I was gratful for that small voice that reminded me all the other Mommy's remembered slipper day. Because now for just a small minute I was one of those other Mommy's too. You know the type the perfect Mommy's that have it all put together that remember everything. Yeah right. My kids wouldn't know what to do with that type of Mommy. Well after that I left for work. I finally realized I wasn't going to make staff meeting. Of course that didn't keep me from almost getting pulled over by the highway patrol. (he he he) I stopped in and dropped off what Mike needed and finished the drive to work. Some how it was just ok that I thought I was missing staff meeting. However, after all of that worry...... I got to work to discover Staff meeting was rescheduled for 10:00. I guess I should have read that last email last night. Oh well. We all have days like this.