Motherly Moment

I had a moment this morning....I took the kids to school as I usually do. I am dressed in sweatpants, ratty t-shirt, hair is completely frumpled and I have on my fuzzy slippers. No big deal. I drop them off at the front and never have to even open the door, so how I am dressed is really no big deal. I get home, and glance at the phone and noticed that 2 minutes earlier someone had called from the school. I listen to the message and it's our neighbor girl....I give her a ride to school and she had left her backpack in the back of the van. I erase the message and go to call her mom, thinking maybe she could come over and get the backpack at some point this morning and run it over there. As I'm going to look up her number, I notice Abby's math book and field trip permission slip on the counter. I know full well that in a matter of time, Abby will be calling me because she needs the math book. I decide to make a quick trip back over to the school - I throw Natalie into the van, still in her feety pajamas and we were off. I get to the school, walk in, and have this sudden flashback of the movie Hope Floats starring Sandra Bullock (if you haven't seen this movie, shame on you)...remember that scene where Birdie (Sandra)runs off to the school in her bathrobe to give Bernice her forgotten lunch? Poor Bernice was so mortified at how her mother looked that she wouldn't even come to the fence to get her lunch. She ran off and pretended not to notice her frumpy mother standing at the fence with the lunch box. (of course Birdie was hung over too, so that didn't add to the look. And, though I am not hung over, I was up until almost 2 am. I probably look like I had a drink too many) This is what I looked like this morning. I didn't even give it a second thought until I was trouncing through the hallway in my fuzzy slippers and looked back at Natalie following me in her feety pajamas. What a sight we were! And, then upon a little more reflection I thought myself grateful for two things: #1: Yes, my children may be embarrassed. But, THEY should be grateful that I brought the dumb homework instead of letting them get docked points for late work. And, #2: I WAS wearing a bra. Because, truthfully, there are many many a morning that I jump in the van to go to school and I am not wearing one. I recently decided that this was a bad idea when my van battery kept dying and I had the thought of me walking home from the school with no bra on. Now, that my friends, would have been a REAL sight. I'm not sure that there is much to be learned from this experience this morning, but it sure made me want to go put that movie on and get a glimpse of Harry Connick in a white shirt and cowboy hat.....