Motherhood... the gift that keeps on giving

Today can suck it.

First, this is a lovely gift I received from my daughter:

Apparently my eyeball caught her virus from last week. Virus- you can suck it, too.

Next, the cookie fiasco. Let me start this by saying I LOVE my kids' preschool, I really do. This is also Vacation Bible School week at their preschool, and a sister church offered to do VBS for them, since they recently went through a transition and it was just too much for them to organize at this point. So the preschool director wasn't really in charge of what was going on, but was relaying information to me to the best of her ability regarding an activity they were doing involving cookies. I call an awesome local natural foods store to make me a big, fish-shaped, GFCF sugar cookie. She tells me she will make me a vegan one. OK, great. I hear from the preschool director... they actually need 3 cookies, one with a hole in it (long story, Jonah and the Whale, Jonah is going to be a gummy bear in the center of this giant cookie sandwich). Bakery is closed for the day. I leave a message. Fast forward to this morning... no one is picking up the phone at said natural foods store. They answer at 9 a.m. when I am in the car, on my way (oh yeah, and school starts at 9, by the way). She made me another fish-shaped cookie with a hole in it, but ran out of vegan dough to make the third cookie. She does have other dough that is GFCF but it has egg in it. No problem with egg, perfect- make me another cookie. She said 6 minutes. I get there in 7. I wait 10, maybe 15 minutes, after I get there. Cookie's done- yay! We're on our way to school- already 40 minutes late. Oh, did I mention my son's speech therapist is there waiting for us, too? We get to school, I throw my son's stuff in his classroom and rush to my daughter's cookie activity with her. We had already missed the whole story about Jonah and the Whale. The class had just finished eating their damn cookies. Are you freaking kidding me? So while her class stands there watching us, she and I hurry up and throw some icing on her cookies, she's crying she doesn't want me to leave, snot running down her face, takes 2 bites of her cookie, then - "Mommy, will you save this for me for home"?  

Yep, today can suck it. Well, the morning can, anyway. Now I have 2 very rare hours to myself- woo hoo! I was planning to get a pedi, head to Med Express for someone to look at my eyeball, and make a grocery store run. I think I'm just going to put my daughter's eyedrops in my eye and read a magazine instead. 

*Update: Kicking back with 2 hours to myself did not happen. Instead, realized I had a fever and went to Med Express. 3 prescriptions later, then time to go get the kiddos! :)