Yesterday morning I picked Avery up from school to take her to the orthodontist. She was finally getting her expander off the roof of her mouth and and her top braces on. I know it sounds crazy, but we were excited. It was a bench mark in our braces journey. The other upside was I was making my final payment on Aly's braces! As Avery was bounding out of the car, I was skipping along right behind her.
When they called her into the back of the office, I took my Mom position in the not so comfortable chair with my magazine. As the time ticked by I was getting a little concerned, because since Aly was suffering with a cold, I had told her I would bring some cold medicine up to her during her lunch. She was staying after school for play tryouts, and we thought that a little cold medicine would help keep her going. I was supposed to be at the high school at 11:15 AM and it was now 11:00 AM. I approached the desk, "Any chance Avery will be done soon?" The women behind the counter went to check. She informed me that Avery would be out any minute. I was really starting to sweat, how in the heck was I going to get up to the high school in time? As you know perfect mothering is all about timing. One miss step and you could find yourself thrown in with the "bad moms".
Avery finally came out minutes later and after booking her next appointment we dashed out of there. We were stopped at every light all the way up to the high school and then just for a little icing on our already late cake, there were two trucks in front of us that could not get up to speed after every stop. At this point all I could do was laugh! I had this vision of Aly waiting for me in the office missing her lunch and being hungry and sad, because her Mom was late! Boy, was I wrong!
I locked Avery in the car in front of the school, (I did not even crack the window like you would for a dog) and ran like a mad woman into the building. I opened the door to the office looked around and realized my daughter was not there. Where the heck was she? Maybe she was so upset she had gone to the restroom? I asked the office attendant if she had seen her and she did not remember her being in the office. Now what? One of the hall monitors suggested that I look in the lunchroom. Hey, that's a good idea, I'll do that.
I walked to the door of the lunchroom with confidence and looked in. I honestly do not think I have ever seen that many teenagers in one place before. It was like a sea of teenage bodies, and of course they all look up as I plunged into the room. One of the Lunch Mom's escorted me through the room as I looked from side to side trying to locate my missing daughter. As I was walking through the room I found myself thinking, if she forgot, I will ring her neck! Every so often a friend of hers would say, "Hi, Mrs Beadle" and then they would wave, and I would wave back. Here I am waving at all these kids and mine still was no where in sight.
Finally, one of her friends waved me over, "Hi, Mrs. Beadle, Aly sits at the front of the cafeteria in the corner." Of course she does, that means I walked right by her as I paraded around the lunchroom waving at all of her friends. I worked my way back to the front of the room and came up behind her, put my hands on her shoulders and said, "Did you forget about me?" Turns out when I was not there she headed back to the lunchroom to eat her lunch. No drama ,like I had thought there would be. So while I was busy having my own version of a sitcom she was calmly eating her lunch and visiting with her friends. At least one of us had it together.
The funny thing is that most days are like that here. They say truth is stranger then fiction and I believe it, because I live it. I could not make this stuff up. Just an average gal trying to make her way through this parenting path with no map. If I am lucking maybe one of the girls friends will see me and point me in the right direction!
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