Fail Fail Fail Fail Fail
There is a part of me that realizes how very dumb it is to care, but Mila went to school today wearing a stained shirt and with her hair doing an excellent impression of a hurricane.
On picture day.
Despite the stickers and notes and verbal reminders, I just plain forgot. I sent her to school looking like a slob on picture day.
Like I said, there is a part of me that realizes how dumb it is to care. I won't buy the photos anyway because from what I can tell from the previews, the photos are bad. They aren't bad because she looked like a slob, but rather because she just glares at the camera. There are tricks to fixing that, but I haven't shared those tricks. They're mine. All mine.
By the way, for as bad as the photos are, they aren't BAD. If they were hilariously bad, then I'd be parting with some money. Alas, they're just mediocre bad, so I won't buy them, and none of it matters.
AND YET.
There is a part of me that cares because I know teachers and parents and such saw what Mila was wearing and they thought things. They thought not nice things about me. I mostly don't care what people think of me, but PARENTING FAIL ALERT ALERT ALERT. Why are parenting fails worse than regular fails? I don't know, but they are.
Thus, I feel the need to explain how I had a little help in my just plain forgetting. See, there's this thing going on right now where Mila will only wear kitty clothes. She would prefer kitty dresses, but she'll settle for kitty shirts, and do you know how hard it is to find toddler clothes with cats on them right now? I thought it would be the easiest thing in the world, but I thought wrong. Suddenly nobody is doing the cat theme thing, so we're dealing with two dresses and two shirts that will pass the Mila Kitty Test. Basically, she's wearing the same things every few days. Occasionally she'll let us interrupt the streak with something not kitty-themed, but don't count on it. My priority every morning is finding a sort of clean kitty top, so I forgot that there was a bigger mission at play today. Picture day warranted finding something that wasn't stained. At minimum.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. The class photo will be the only evidence of my parenting fail. And I'm sure I will make up for it with photos that I take.
Except that, you know, she's wearing the damn kitty clothes in every single photo. It's as if we never change her clothes.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Reader Comments (3)
Lol. I love her kitty outfits. I have a hello kitty dress too small for my kid...I think it's a small 5 (she has other 5s that fit so hence the "small 5") can you make it work?
My kid was rolling on the floor in the main hallway of tbe school she should go to k for next year while I talked to a staff member.
There are real reasons why (that have nothing to do with my parenting skills) ones I shared on paper and in person and yet again as she lay on the floor--I was calm and sing-songy as I shared info I loathe having to give out-- still, I was mortified feeling all the parenting fail eyes on me.
i ain't judging.
:)
Gymboree has ALL the kitty clothes : ) seriously,, tons of Kitty cuteness and they have a big sale this weekend. I still stalk Gyboree even though my tween kiddo can't fit into their sizes anymore - don't judge! ;)
http://search.gymboree.com/search?view=grid&debug=&env=&loggedin=N&w=kitty