If any of you working parents out there feel like you're barely making it, when it comes to keeping up with your kids homework, event dates or deadlines...you know exactly what I'm talking about when I say: "I'm ALWAYS sliding into home." That's what I call my attempt to meet all these calendar dates (with at least some shred of dignity and air of organization).
Once again, this weekend I will be trying to create the illusion that I was "on top of things the whole time" by scrapbooking a years' worth of my daughter's life! Getting it in, as usual, just under the wire.
It just so happens this morning, after their end-of-the-year play (my kids are in year-round school), the teacher kindly stated she didn't ask for their scrapbooks, so parents didn't feel pressure to finish them by today. Under my breath I said "Or start them...."
So....in order to ensure that my little girl has a book chock full of memories of her first year in school and to save face, I will be scrapbooking all weekend to meet Monday's deadline. I've decided to make it a project for the both of us, that way I look like a really cool Mom who just wanted to spend time with her daughter...and not the lame, overwhelmed working mother who's brain sponge is soaked to capacity and forgot.
I guess the important thing is, you still score...even when you have to slide in to get there!!! (It's just worse when you wear a skirt).
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