Forgetful

It's the end of the school year, which means I'm barely keeping every thing on my kid's schedule straight.  I'm sorry teachers, we are scraping by.  Special field trips, and as I wrote that I quick hopped up to check the calender because I wasn't sure if Clay's class trip was today (it's not, it's next week, whew).  Anyways, the schedule is just jam packed.  

Last week, or was it the week before? It was the week before last.....  Clay got off the bus and started to talk about Fredrick Meijer Gardens, and I said to him, "you'll see all that stuff when you get to go there for your class trip."  Fast forward to the weekly Monday note the teacher sends home and it says, "we had so much fun at Fredrick Meijer Gardens on Thursday....."  and there I sat, searching my brain to see if I remembered about it.  I didn't.  I ask Clay about it and sure enough they went there.  At least I remembered to send in the permission slip and money a few weeks prior to the class trip.

Last week Friday, the teacher e-mailed a picture of the class.  All the kids, except mine and another boy, were wearing green and yellow.  There was Clay in the picture, standing out like a sore thumb, in navy and orange.  Apparently, they were supposed to wear John Deere colors for a small outing across the road to a farm. I totally forgot about it!  We're not John Deere people anyways, we are Allis Chalmers folk here.

We get the school note on Wednesdays and it has all the school reminders and important info on them.  Ross was reading it Friday morning, and says to me ,"Erin, there are only 20 year books left, did we get one?"  My response, "I've been meaning to send in the money with Leanne, but keep forgetting."  Ross replies, "Do you even read the note?"  I said to him, "I skim read it."  Maybe that's part of my problem this year, all that skim reading that I keep missing stuff.  But I don't really think so, I think I would forget anyways, even if I read it closely.  I sent Leanne to school that morning with money for a year book. 

Thursday, last week, I could sense that I pushed something wrong on my alarm clock and my mind told me to get up and check it out, but my body did NOT listen.  I woke up when the bus was supposed to pick up the kids for school.  I got the kiddos up, full well knowing that I would have to bring them, got them dressed and fed and dropped them off.  Alli and Clay were on time but Leanne was a few minutes late (we outgrew our school, so this year we leased the Beaverdam school and grades K-2 go there).  The whole day was totally off.  I HATE that when that type of morning happens.


There, of course, are the normal forgetful moments too.  Like forgetting to initial minutes Clay has read for reading, doing their catch up homework from sick days (we have yet another virus going through the family!!), and just generally keeping everything straight.  BUT we are in the HOME STRETCH!!!!!!!  I'm doing a little happy dance.  Only 2 weeks and a day left......I got this (I think....) Three more class trips and a field day.  I'd better get those brown paper bags out so I don't forget about sack lunches for class trips.