Bad Mommy Award

I know Sarah was trying to claim the bad mommy award, but I feel I am a contender as well. Finn saw that I had put on scrub pants to water the yard in, and started crying, "I don't want you to go to work, Mama! I don't want you to go to work every day!"

Perhaps not coincidentally, Finn has now been having behavior problems at school. He also crawled into my lap and snuggled during a volcano video the other day, something he has not done for a while, and refused to let go of me during our goodnight hug, saying he needed me. Granted, it is nice to be needed, but it has me feeling a bit guilty.

I tried role-playing his behavior problems at school the other night and discovered that not only would he not obey his teachers at school, he also will not obey me-pretending-to-be-the-teacher at home. Role play was unsucessful, although Liam really got into it.

I did have one really sucessful mommy moment, however. We discovered last night, much to our horror, that today is "cookie day" for Finn, and we needed to provide allergen-free cookies. I did not relish the thought of making cookies at 10pm, but given my mommy-guilt, was fully prepared to do so. In a moment of great brilliance, I discovered I had purchased special allergen-free cookies at the closeout sale of Wild Oats and hid them away for just such a moment. After high-fives, hugs, and cheers (all between Matt and myself, naturally), we were able to go to bed in the knowledge that our child would not be deprived on cookie day.