Let’s all bow our heads for a moment of humility.
The entire Chicagoland area has been buried in a snowstorm of epic proportions, a storm that has the old-timers duly comparing this to the dread Winter of 1981 and talking about their early predictions based on the rings on caterpillars and the direction of flying geese. In fact, Little One had a day and a half off due to snow days, an event that happens so rarely that First Born called up to complain about how spoiled her sister is, since FB never had a single snow day in twelve years of primary education.
However, last night’s High School Open House was not cancelled. The roads were awful, but I was semi-willing to go anyway. When I got to the parking lot, I saw there were only a few rows of cars and rejoiced because even though I was as late as I always am, I could find a spot near the door!
I started to feel sorry for all the teachers in there just waiting for Moms and Dads to come talk to them about their teens. Clearly most of these parents were either afraid to drive in the storm or preferred to stay home in the warmth rather than brave the semi-blizzard to discuss their teenager’s education. Not me. I didn’t want to be out in the cold, but I placed a higher value on Little One’s education. Connecting with her teachers was obviously a higher priority for me than most parents.
Then I got to the door and read the sign that said the Open House was at the other campus. On the other side of the city. Just as it had said in the flyer we received last month.
Published by angelawd on February 8th, 2008 tagged Abnormal Motherhood
February 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Ah, yes, the dreaded “I’m SURE I read the flyer, but um, clearly I didn’t.”
February 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
You tried, right? So then you deserved to go straight home and drink some hot cocoa. You can always e-mail the teachers, anyway.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Fannie, it’s even worse than that! I put the location into my palm phone which I had with me.
Suburban, I thought of that, and then I thought about what I was just thinking about how I’m such a great mom, and realized that I couldn’t just give up. Actually I’m glad I did ‘cuz there’s a couple of teachers I really wanted to meet.
Bottom line, I’m a dork.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I had to come visit and get the details after you left your funny weekend reflection. Sounds like something I would do that my kids would tease me about forever!
February 15th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
4 Gold stars for being the most tenacious mom in the class!