CAS with Making Memories Noel

I raved about this paper before and here are some scraps I culled together from my scrapbooking adventures to make this pretty one! Very easy and very CAS with a focus on the paper, a few punched edges and a sentiment/flourish combination from Hero Arts. Yum!

Positive note of the day: So it would normally be at this point that I would congratulate myself for volunteering at school tonight and spending some time with C. Unfortunately, here's what happened... I ended up volunteering for 90 minutes. For the last 30 minutes, I got tons of dirty looks from my girl and plaintive "are we going yet?" whines...ugh. Anyway, I was telling a story about her (which she hates) to two other moms (and it was a cute story to boot!). So what does she do? She comes over and shoves me so that I lose my footing. Embarrassed but possessed enough to take her to the corner and give her $hit, I told her that we would finish out our time and that she would be going to bed when we got home.

As I cleaned the classroom, she was weeping to herself while I tried to be relatively nonchalant about the fact that she had misbehaved (which really just mortified me). Since I kept looking over at her (yes, I was slinging dirty looks her way), she got more upset and then started coughing. And, well you can guess what happened next...she yakked all over herself and the classroom floor. Ticked off at her (since she sometimes does this when she cannot control her emotions), I am sure I came off as callous as I tried to clean up the mess. One of the other moms called the custodian to come clean it up so I could take her to the bathroom and hose her down. Daunted by the sheer volume (yuck!), I stripped her down and made her go home in her long jacket and silvery shoes. By the time we were outside, she was all lightness and sunshine whereas I was bitching to Brad about how my evening deteriorated. She went to bed when we got home.

This is one of those days where I wonder what I am doing wrong...maybe I let too much slide and this is payback. Dunno. I did tell Charlotte while she laid in bed that her actions reflected poorly on me. I know that I secretly judge people in my own head when I see their kids misbehave and here I was dealing with the same thing. Of course, in recent years, I have chosen to commiserated with the other moms but still, I think I was silently congratulating myself on a job well done (at least out in public...at home, it's a whole other story!). I guess this was my comeuppance!