MorningMadness/LunchFun

Woke up TIRED but was okay to get going in time. I have the boys ready and almost out the door UNTIL my keys were no where to be found. Man, we’ve been so much better about keeping up with our keys- how did this happen? They’re not attached to my purse (like they usually are), they are not IN my purse, not on the dresser, the kitchen counter, in the bathroom… WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Call Captain. No answer. Call Captain’s work number… no answer. I am not good at finding things, I’m at a loss. What to do, what to do. Call Mom and see if she can pick up the kids? No, there’s no time and she’s likely busy. Keep looking, keep looking. Why isn’t Captain answering, leave a frantic message for him.

Start moving around stuff (versus just looking in the obvious places), FOUND THEM. 10 minutes later, I found them. Our faucet is leaking in the kitchen (and the bathroom but hey we’re working on one job at a time here) and everything under the sink is now on the counters and my keys were under that stuff.

Drop off Kindergartener- tell him to run. He has 1 minute before being late. He sees a friend, they chat. I honk the horn- he waves. UUUUGGHGHHGHGHGHG. I have this secret fear that I’m not cut out for Motherhood. That God made me too selfish, too scatterbrained, too whatever. To me a sign that I’m failing is getting my kid to school late, I DO NOT WANT TO GET HIM THERE LATE.

I park, I walk in, I ensure he wasn’t- he wasn’t. I ask if someone can brake a $20 bill so I can send money for lunch to my lil’ guy. The laugh. The say to go to the cafeteria and do the pay into the account thing. I don’t want to- they have to know their assigned account numbers when they have an account and my prince doesn’t have a great memory- I don’t want him to be embarrassed if he can’t recall it. I leave when no one in the cafeteria shows their face right away.

I decide to bring him lunch- I leave work and pickup McDonalds. I talk to McBunny about time management issues on the way (on the cell, yeah I know that’s bad) and she encourages me to go ahead and take some time off from Karate. I decide it would be a good idea and now I feel good about it since another Mommy agrees.

I’m at the school, I go to the cafeteria and wait. My boy is so happy to see me, I didn’t see that coming. He was all smiles and proud to be sitting with me- I didn’t see that coming either. The other kids like me… wow, life is good. I mention the idea of taking some time off from Karate and he agrees that it would be smart. WOW.

Things fall into place sometimes- thank you God.