Picture Day Fail

September 19, 2013
You've heard me loathe about picture day before. I hate it. Hate it. It's the one single day that my children have to actually look like they aren't orphans. And usually the one day that we all wake up late, are grouchy, won't eat, scream when getting our hair combed, cry over the clothes that mom wants us to wear, and just plan run like mad men to get there before the photographer leaves.

In six years of school picture days I have never felt so free, so calm as I did today.

The secret?

I forgot.

Completely, 100% forgot.

Thank goodness it was just Cole's picture day. Pearl would never have forgiven me if she'd gone to school looking like she'd just rolled out of bed.

Mr. Fern wore a lovely ensemble of an Aggie tee shirt and a pair of hand-me-down shorts. Awesome. At least the kid was representing our Aggies. Not horrid. Until he peed all over his shirt. Cole often refuses to go potty when he wakes up and I've learned that he can usually go about an hour or so after he wakes up before it becomes an emergency. The problem was, we hit emergency right when we got to school (and as I'm lugging my lunch box, his spare clothes, a coat, my coat, my purse) into school and then freak out because I have just been ensured the Mom of the Year Award for forgetting picture day. We run into the bathroom as I'm squawking at him to hurry and pee before he pees his pants. He did.... just not aiming in the toilet. Epic.

To say I was laughing and calm about the situation would be a lie. I was fuming! I had a meeting to get to and was ready to explode. Cole was throwing a fit because he wanted to wear his Aggie shirt for picture day and NOTHING else. So we sat in the office waiting for his shirt to dry. After about 10 minutes, I'd had it and took it out of the dryer and made him wear it. Still wet.

Awesome. Hilariously awesome. I did laugh about it once there was nothing to do but wait for that pee shirt to dry. And it will make for one funny story when we look back and everyone asks why his shirt looks stained.