Like mother like daughter

[marcellam_84]

 I was thinking about the time when I was in like 1st grade and my mom never picked me up from school. Its a pretty sad story lol...welll...in my eyes it was. I remember my mom always being early to pick me up. As soon as I got out of school she was always waiting there for me (shes always early for everything). Well, one day I got out of school and she wasnt there. So I waited....I figured maybe she was just running late. Then slowly everybody was leaving and I was the only one waiting on the bench outside. No teachers or aides were out there with me. and now that I think about it...that was pretty crappy. I mean, anybody could have came and stole me. lol. I waited and waited and she never came. I waited a long time before I started crying. Finally, the librarian came out and saw me sitting there by myself crying. She recognized me because my aunt was a gym teacher at my school. So she brought me back inside the school and took me to my aunts office and my aunt took me home. I wonder why I just didnt go into the school myself and look for my aunt. (I guess I was too young to think about stuff like that). So my aunt brought me home and my mom opened up the door crying. at the time we only had one vehicle and I guess my dad brought it to work that day. We had no house phone(Im guessing we didnt have one at the time) so my mom couldnt call anybody to pick me up. She also babysat a few kids at home so even if she wanted to walk to the school to pick me up....she couldnt (our house was pretty far from the school). She was just crying because she felt bad and Im sure she was crying 'cause she was just thankful that my aunt was there to give me a ride home. I guess I was thinking about this moment because like a few weeks ago I forgot to pick my son up from school. I totally forgot that it was an early release day. I guess I forgot because it wasnt a holiday or anything. for some reason the kids got an early release day because the teachers had something going on. and then that morning of the early release I didnt drop him off at school. The night before he stayed at his dads house and my sons step mom dropped him off at school that morning. I know if I would have dropped him off that morning I would have remembered to pick him up early. (and NO Im not blaming his step mom. I actually was the one that told her about the early release several days before the day this all happened). So on this day, I was laying my other two kids down for a nap and it was like 11:30...someone from the school called and said "I have Gavin up here at the office". and I said "oh my gosh, what happened?" I thought maybe he got hurt or something. and the lady said "Its early release day. we got out at 11:15". I apologized about 3 times for forgetting and I jumped to get the kids out of bed and went to the school. Thankfully, we live right down the rode from the school and I got there at 11:37. When I was driving to the school I thought about that time when my mom couldnt pick me up. I pictured my son sitting up at the office all by himself crying. I felt sooo bad. and I felt like a bad mother for forgetting about the damn early release. When I walked into the office their were a lot of kids waiting up there. and finally I saw my son. He was just hanging out in the office with the other kids and he wasnt crying. I guess I wasnt the only mom that forgot about the early release. but I still felt bad. I told my son I was sorry over and over again. but he didnt even think anything of it lol. (hes in Pre-k). I still feel like crap for forgetting . even if I was just running 15-20 minutes late. Like my mother, Im usually always early and on time. Im always waiting outside for my son to walk out of the school and Im always the first one he sees.

[CafeTexasMomof3]

Nov. 24, 2008 at 9:45 PM

I only giggle b/c I picture this frantic mother thinking of only her poor "forgotten" son only to find he was one of many and just playing and chatting away as if nothing happened...I am glad to hear he was not upset and not traumatized as you were :)

Alisha