C’s school was doing a mini relay for life today. In fact it was supposed to be last Friday, but due to inclement weather they rescheduled it for today. Last week we got a note from the school asking that we prepare the kids for the relay- i.e.- slather them with sunscreen and send them with a hat. And like the diligent mother that I am, I obsessed about the fact that she didn’t have a hat to wear, so I stopped by Walmart on Thursday night and spent $7 on a hat for her. Somehow with the chaos of the weekend the hat managed to go AWOL. I hadn’t noticed until this morning when I went to grab it and it wasn’t there. And I have to admit, our house isn’t brimming with extra hats- especially of the summer variety… And the only hat I could find was her Easter hat. Yup… a white straw hat with a fancy bow. So guess what my kid sported during her relay for life. I’m just hoping she rocked that hat and no one made fun of her!

To add insult to injury this morning, I also couldn’t find her backpack… which was (ahem) in Tim’s car which was at Tim’s work… 75 miles away. So again like the great mom that I am, I improvised. I found an extra Maryland Day bag I had lying around and I tossed her lunch money, her school folder, and her awesome Easter hat into the bag and handed it to her. (for a mental picture, the Maryland Day bag is pretty much a small reusable grocery bag.) I didn’t realize I needed to give her a lesson on how to carry the bag until I looked over at her as she was getting on the bus and her arms were wrapped in the handles of the bag as if it were an actual backpack and it was hoisted onto her back- looking more like a shark fin sticking out than a backpack!! You can’t win them all… and some days you can’t win any of the!  🙂

At least hopefully an adult somewhere at her school had a nice chuckle today, because seriously it was one of those days! Ha!