Bad Mom Of The Year Award Goes To Me Folks!!
Crystalina wrote: Everything was going great this morning. Got the kids up, dressed and fed and out the door to drop Izabella off at school. I come home and filled Evan's request for biscuits. I make a pot of coffee, lay Gabby down for her nap get online. My sister calls and we start our usual morning banter about this and that. She asks what I've done so far this morning and I tell her. She says, "You dropped Izabella off already?". I said, "Yes, Jennifer. School does start at 9am." Then she says, "Not today! There's a 2-hour delay!!! School doesn't start until 11am!"
 O...M...G!!!!!!!
I hang up on her because it was reflex and I just had to call the school like NOW. The school is about 15 minutes away. I always watch her go inside. Even if there are teachers and the principal outside (like they normally are), I don't care. I want to see my kid enter the building before I pull away. So I know she made it in the school this morning but then I start thinking that it's just her and the janitor. Now, I've met him and he's a really nice man but at the moment I realize it may just be the two of them in there (in my head) he turns into a pedophile. He's not really but in my mind that's what he is.  So I call the school and get the secretary who said they saw me drop her off but couldn't get to me in time before I turned the corner. The school was full of teachers (they were having inservices) and Izabella is safe up in the library watching movies with her bff Josie. Thank God! Josie's mom is a teacher so she came in early with her mom. After hearing that she was safe the janitor turned back into the sweet man I know. 
I didn't see any other kids being dropped off but I thought for some reason it was because she was tardy, although I knew we left the house early enough. I even said, as I pulled up to the school, how are we late??? I even wrote on the calendar last week that today was a 2-hour delay.  
DH asked me if I need adult supervision with the kids when he leaves. 
cameragirl21 replied:  Thank God everyone is ok. I know how you feel, I'd start to feel the same way about the janitor in that place, I think anyone would.
I bet Izabella had more fun watching movies with her bff than being at home anyway so it all worked out.
Honestly, if I had 3 kids at these various age ranges I think I'd forget where I put my head on some days.... 
momofone replied: It is hard to keep track of everything - i glad she is safe and that is exactly how i think too - but the school should have called i would think to let you know shes ok.
A&A'smommy replied:  at least she was having fun!!!
Danalana replied: Sorry, but that just made me laugh!
And, like Jennifer said, most mothers would envision the nice janitor as a pedophile in that situation. I'm glad she's just fine  Man, parenthood is funny sometimes!
Crystalina replied:
I don't know why they didn't call now that I think of it.  Hmm, maybe they thought I was not going straight home.
MommyToAshley replied: Earlier this year, I dropped Ashley off at school. I always park and walk her to the front door. I noticed that there were fewer than normal kids being dropped off, but there were still some being dropped off. I thought we may have just been a little early. I pull around the building to exit and then I notice that the nice police man isn't there directing traffic and there aren't any busses. So, I park and go back inside the building to find all the lights in the hall are off. I go down to Ashley's classroom and the door is locked and no one is in sight. I go into panic mode too...where's my kid and who has taken her??? I go up to the office and it is locked and dark as well. Then, I run into a teacher and she says that she is probably in the cafeteria with the "latchkey" kids (the before school program for parents who work). So, I head down there and they send me to the gym. I get to the gym and there's about 100 kids there and one poor teacher. Appearantly, school was on a two hour delay because the public school district was on a two hour delay due to a power outage at one of the schools and since her school uses the same busses, they go on a delay as well. It was a nice day, no weather issues, so many of the parents didn't know about the delay. The before school program that normally has about 15 -20 kids had about 100 kids. I took Ashley and went back home, but she was disappointed and wanted to stay and play. But, in that brief moment when I didn't know where my child was, I know the panic you felt. If you get the worst parent award, then you are going to have to share it with me.
Crystalina replied:
"Panic" does not even describe it properly.  I seriously couldn't breath. By the time I got the secretary on the phone I could barely tell her why I was calling. I just said, "Izabella. Izabella..." I couldn't get the sentence out. It wasn't until after I called my sister back and started talking to her that I finally stopped shaking. I kept thinking about the janitor and the amount of time he's had to do whatever it was he was going to do to her. And that I basically handed my daughter over to him and his sick pedophileness.  
That poor man. I feel horrible for even thinking that. 
mom21kid2dogs replied: Sorry Crystal, they won't take your mommy card away for this one. It happens in every elementary school in the district every time there is a non weather related 2 hour delay.  The smarter schools I work in have made up big white & red placards that say "2 hour delay today" and that seems to help. 
My2Beauties replied: OMG I can so see me doing something like this when hanna starts school this fall and I'd be frantic if I did. You don't get the worst mommy of the year award though! It's ok
luvmykids replied: If it makes you feel better, I had to go out of town a few weeks ago and left DH in charge He thought they were running late (they were actually 30 minutes early) so he dropped the twins off at the main building, and Macie at her class on the other end of the campus. He watched her go in but took off so fast he didn't see her come right back out to tell him nobody was there yet, so she stood outside in the cold, ALONE, for about 15 minutes until another teacher saw her and took her to meet up with her class.
I really could have killed him but had to remind myself it could probably happen to me too at some point
mizzh replied: this doesn't make you a bad mother!! and i have to admit, i giggled a little right along with some others... heck, we all have blonde moments, even if our hair is pitch black!! (i'm blonde, so i have an excuse every time i do something silly!)
the school should have called you immediately... i would bring the issue up the first chance you get.
i'm happy you and your family are doing good and this had a happy ending 
Crystalina replied:
OMG! outside in the COLD! ALONE? That is one of my fears. Since we live out in the country we all "share" a bus stop. It's about 1.5 miles down the road and I always have a fear that I won't be able to pick her up on time. I'm always on time but I have dreams of the truck getting stuck, a flat tire, a dead battery. I've told her a million times, if for some reason I'm not there when you get off the bus PLEASE don't go anywhere! Our road is very quiet and there are only a few houses on it and she thinks that she can walk home if I'm not there! I said NEVER NEVER walk home. Are you kidding me? If anything I will walk to you.
Crystalina replied:
Thank you.
luvmykids replied:
Worse, I didn't even hear about it from him but from the teacher who rescued her....I was HORRIFIED when she mentioned it to me and all I could say was "Huh? Are you sure you have the right kid?" Macie is still ticked at him for that one
I used to have the bus stop fear too, before we moved it was at the end of our road and about a dozen kids had that stop....I would have HOURS before I had to pick them up but have near panic attacks that something would happen between then and the time to pick them up I made them swear if I ever wasn't there that they'd just flat refuse to get off the bus
punkeemunkee'smom replied: Girl I would have had the same thoughts about the janitor you did! The panic you felt proves you don't deserve the worst mom of the year award...you may deserve some more sleep and def a bubble bath and a glass of wine after that!  Glad she is safe and sound!
coasterqueen replied: Ahh, not a bad mom at all.
Thank goodness our school doesn't have "2 hour delays". If they have an in-service day it's in the afternoon, after the kids go home for the day - so they'll dismiss at 1:40 instead of 3 pm.
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