mother of the year....to the cutest teddy bear in the world.

Yes, just call me mother of the year once again.

Connor had his teddy bear picnic today at pre-k. For any one out there that has had a kid go through good start or pre-k in Victor, you KNOW what a big deal this is.

Basically...what happens at this picnic is that all of the kids (really, parents), make "floats" with a teddy bear in them and they have this little parade through the school and end up in the board room for a little picnic on blankets. It is the upstate NY way of trying to kid yourself into thinking that it just MIGHT be warming up outside. It isn't.

I would like to sit here and say that I worked so hard on Connor's float. I didn't. I totally lucked out and still had CJ's float in the basement and just did some updates and rolled with it. CJ's float was a Zamboni....boring old white with a hand drawn old black and red Sabres logo on the front of it. The white covered a box that we cut out to fit perfectly over this big dump truck that we had. Add a rope and we were all set!

So, Connor also wanted a zamboni. So, I took of the white, replaced it with blue and yellow and stuck on this Sabres logo sticker that we had around the house. Connor insisted that it have a "smoke stack" on the top, so we added that with a toilet paper roll. Of course I got in a TON of trouble because CJ claimed Connor's was WAY better then his (it was, I am an expert now. :)). Anyway, here it is -



So on to the mother of the year stuff.

I missed it.

Yes, you read that right. I missed it.

I thought it was at 2:45. At around 2:20 I started panicking a bit. What if it was at 2:30? I had what seemed to be every kid in the neighborhood in my house. I looked for a sheet to confirm the time and couldn't find one. So I called the school.

"What time does the teddy bear parade start?"

"It is going on right now."

Crap.

I got everyone out of the house the fastest I could (some I am sure are now scared), and we hopped in the car and raced to the school.

When I got there all of the families were sitting on their blankets having snack. Connor was sitting there with another mother on their blanket so sad. I will NEVER forget that look. I missed the parade...I missed the picnic...and I just feel horrible. I want to enjoy these times, not MISS them!!

Anyway....I am so sad about it. I can't imagine how sad he must have been to march into that room to show off his float and have ALL of the other parents be there but me. :(

My sweet boy.

Ugghhhh.