Mr Mom for a Weekend
Day one of single parenthood went OK, I guess. I did have one speed bump in the morning however. I dropped Ben off at school at 7:05 and returned home. I had to drop Sarah off before work at 8:00, so thought I'd get a quick shower in. Well, then the phone rang with a caller ID of "Waukesha Schools". I pick it up and it's Ben. "Hi Dad. Can you bring four cans of canned goods for the food drive this morning?" "Uh, wha?" I thought. Seems he forgot that he needed 4 canned goods for a project that would eventually end up in the food drive. Argh! So I said I would, but it would be after 7:30 when I took Sarah to school. He said that's fine and that the teachers would let him wait outside until I got there. Not so much. When I arrived he (and everyone else for that matter) was nowhere to be found. Did I say Argh? Oh yeah, that was before though. Argh! I tell Sarah to go in and drop the four cans off with the person manning the door. She of course was ...