Best Laid Plans....

Shame on me for planning! I should know better than that by now... when kids are involved, anyway. We stayed home all week last week while little M's throat healed up. She was doing great (thanks to Motrin, again) until sometime Saturday she stopped eating. From what I've been told the s-c-a-b-s (hate that word so much i can hardly spell it out) come off of the surgery site about 5-7 days post-op and there's alot of pain - so that's what I gather is going on. But I figured by this morning that she'd be up for going to school since it's been THREE WEEKS since the last time she went. We got up early, got all ready, even got all the way to school.... nope. nada. not even gonna consider it. She got really upset when I tried to leave her and I just couldn't bring myself to force the issue. Maybe we'll try again tomorrow.....

On another note, can I just say how much I love school uniforms?? I didn't even realize it until this morning - big O's 4k class won a contest at school and part of the reward is "free dress" for the entire week. That means I sent her off to school in one of her few non-uniform outfits for her to WALLOW (yes, that IS a word, thank you) in the dirt on the playground and most likely wear those cute little velour knees down to the backing. I suspect whoever made up said contest did not expect the 4k'ers to actually win. I also find it odd that they decide to have "tacky" dress day in the middle of "free" dress week. I can remember detesting "tacky" day even as a kid. What if someone who doesn't know the deal sees you and thinks you'd actually dress that way? Or what if you didn't dress up and someone thought you had? I dunno... it's like wearing two left shoes.... it just ain't right!