I am the worst mom ever.
I started out the day being a pretty good mom. I took Baby Girl to school a bit early so I would have time to sort through her bins and replace all her too-small clothes with right-size clothes (she grows so fast!). That's a good mom thing to do.
As I was sorting through her bins I found the valentine she made me and Tim at school. It had her little footprint on it in red, and glitter glued onto a piece of pink construction paper. It was absolutely adorable. We thought it had been lost while I was in barcelona because Tim never got it. So the teachers ended up having her make another (which hasn't yet been assembled so we don't have it yet) to replace it. So imagine my joy when I found it there in her bin!
I tucked it away in her bottle bag for safe keeping and then because I still had some time before I had to go to work, I mixed up a bowl of oatmeal with apples and mango and fed her her breakfast before leaving. That's a good mom thing to do too.
I went to the grocery store and stocked up on jar food and diapers for day care. A good, proactive mom thing to do.
I picked her up promptly at 5pm to take her home.
When I got home I discovered that one of the bottles had sprung a leak in her bottle bag and it was pretty soaked, so I decided to wash the whole thing. Also a good mom thing to do.
But I neglected to remove her valentine from the pocket before tossing it into the wash. When I was taking it out of the wash I noticed a couple of small red flecks of something but thought nothing of it.
In fact, I didn't realize what I had done until I went to retrieve the valentine so I could take a picture of it and post it here for Daddy, Grandmas and Grandpas to see and then a lightening bolt hit me when I realized I had tossed the whole thing in the washing machine.
Now all I have to show for our daughter's very first valentine to Mommy and Daddy is a soaking wet pink piece of paper all waded up and stuck together.
I tried to console myself with the fact that a second one is in the works because we though this one was lost anyway, but it didn't work.
I suck.
Comments
Don't be too hard on yourself. I bet if the teachers let her near the new valentine, she will probably do far worse all on her own! You could always dry it out and put it in her keepsake box -it will make a fun story for when she gets older: "Mommy, what is this?!?." :)
Posted by Debra on March 7, 2006 11:17 AM.