Notes from the flightiest mother on the block…

So in case there was any doubt that we/I would make a quick impression here on our new neighbours, the school and the locals in general, let me set your minds at ease, task complete!

It begins really with the quick intro session at G new Montessori we are so happy he will be attending, when after a morning meeting we attempted to locate unsuccessfully our youngest child who was being entertained by an enthusiastic Grammie and so entered said intro meeting sans child to which we were told it is not necessarily promising when the parents show up saying they were unable to find their 3 year old child! It was said with a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes, probably because she was busy deciding whether to call child services or give us the tour.
This blip has now been followed by the previously mentioned attempted deck peeing and underwear dances on the front and back decks for all the neighbors viewing pleasure in addition to my inability to parent with an inside voice or 30cm voice or whatever the proper term is for it in these days.
But wait, drum roll please …
For my most priceless act to date, I have given out as our new address to all our friends and family the address to A’s elementary school and so received a very appreciated call from the kind and helpful school secretary that she had been collecting all our mail since she recognized the name as being mine. To begin with my hat goes off to this lovely woman since at moments lately I can’t recall my own name let alone one out of the possible 6 or 7 hundred parents she must deal with in any given school year.
I quickly, while blushing from embarrassment at looking quite like the flightiest mother on the block before the actual school year even began, briskly walk to the school berating myself the whole way to collect our mail and in truth laughing with mild hysteria at my faux pas.
In I enter with the line I have come up with to explain and shrug off hopefully my embarrassment I exclaim “ well if I thought I would begin the year off with any anonymity I’ve blown that out of the water!” not my best line but in my hurried state I think it isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever said......Until..... I see the packages I am being handed…...One, a program for an upcoming class, the next a birthday gift from one of my oldest, funniest most beloved friends now living in the UK with her equally entertaining and lovely girlfriend (soon to be wife). I have tried and failed to describe this so I must just post the photo…



The best part, I simply thanked her as graciously as I could. She grinned at me over her glasses and I left hugging my packages, smiling, no explanation. Really what would one say!

There is nothing like starting the next 9 years of my kids elementary school years in a new community with an entertaining bang! The best part is I can’t stop laughing so you succeeded my friend you have given me a beautiful gift and card, as well, inadvertently an awesome story! I am off to find a glass of wine and frame the paper!!!