A young mother ventures out with brood in tow in the hopes of getting her oldest to preschool on time. They are already running 15 minutes late and pull into the parking lot amidst a downpour. She thankfully has packed the golf-size umbrella. No sooner do they pull into a parking space, but she quickly realizes that some serious strategizing will have to take place in order to get all three young children, herself, mongo umbrella, and mom purse into the preschool in a timely and dry fashion.
She:
A) decides to ditch the stroller and go for the baby Bjorn, crawling over child #2, and muscling sweet infant into the carrier while huddling within the minivan to avoid the rain. She manages to unlatch the older boys and all process into preschool with mom's one hand on the umbrella and the other holding child #2, who is holding onto child #1. Whew!
B) decides to ditch the stroller and make a run for it with all the children. She props the infant on her hip, holds the umbrella with the same hand, and hopes for the best while grabbing both older boys' hands and making the dash inside. The two on the outside become unfortunately wet as they are the furthest from the center of the umbrella. Oh well!
C) opts for the stroller (who's on time anyway?) and requires child #1 to push it while holding child #2's hand and preventing both stroller and children from dashing in any inadvertant directions, thus threatening their precious lives. Lord, help us!
D) says to heck with Virginia State Law and leaves her car idling at the drop-off doors with the two youngest inside only to dash in with child #1 and get him there in the nick of time! Yes!
E) says to heck with child abandonment and runs the other direction without any children! She's free!! :)
Can you tell what a spectacle we were?? :)
The bottomline, if we had only been on time we would have been the picture of optimization and organization. Oh, if only! You can find what adventure we chose in the comments... and I can promise you, the answer is not E!!!! God bless!
She:
A) decides to ditch the stroller and go for the baby Bjorn, crawling over child #2, and muscling sweet infant into the carrier while huddling within the minivan to avoid the rain. She manages to unlatch the older boys and all process into preschool with mom's one hand on the umbrella and the other holding child #2, who is holding onto child #1. Whew!
B) decides to ditch the stroller and make a run for it with all the children. She props the infant on her hip, holds the umbrella with the same hand, and hopes for the best while grabbing both older boys' hands and making the dash inside. The two on the outside become unfortunately wet as they are the furthest from the center of the umbrella. Oh well!
C) opts for the stroller (who's on time anyway?) and requires child #1 to push it while holding child #2's hand and preventing both stroller and children from dashing in any inadvertant directions, thus threatening their precious lives. Lord, help us!
D) says to heck with Virginia State Law and leaves her car idling at the drop-off doors with the two youngest inside only to dash in with child #1 and get him there in the nick of time! Yes!
E) says to heck with child abandonment and runs the other direction without any children! She's free!! :)
Can you tell what a spectacle we were?? :)
The bottomline, if we had only been on time we would have been the picture of optimization and organization. Oh, if only! You can find what adventure we chose in the comments... and I can promise you, the answer is not E!!!! God bless!
9 comments:
Our adventure looked very much like choice "B", though A and C are VERY familiar options for us. D is always so tempting, but we try to avoid it. And E, well, let's just say that E is a luscious option regardless of our predicament. lol! Thankfully God has given me enough grace so far to avoid it. Have a great day!
I'd go with D, but without an idling car. In a safe place (like a pre-school parking lot), I lock the other two in the car, take my keys, belt them in, and quickly drop off the third. You are very brave to unpack the whole brood and head out in the rain.
How about F: Say 'see ya' to the preschool, and head to the nearest sonic for breakfast burritos and slushies to be consumed in the dry car on the way back home to a dry house.
I swear I'm not a quitter! I just dream like one...
This Heavenly Life, you bring up such a good point that sometimes, as parents, we have to abandon our objectives and just ENJOY time with our children. When was the last time I was a really fun mom???? Ten bucks the kids would remember the Sonic outing over a miserable walk to preschool in the rain! Thanks for the good reminder...
Sonic is so good.
This whole hassle is a large part of why I ditched pre-school altogether!
You're a smart woman, Mary Alice. Either that or find one with a child drop-off!
We're so lucky - Christopher's current school has a carpool line, and it's been a huge blessing this year! Of course, we rarely have inclement weather in Houston (except for that pesky Hurricane Ike last fall!), so it's not as much of an issue as if you live up north!
We did option G today in which 3 year old insists on holding the umbrella meaning that anyone over 4 feet tall got soaked. I'm not sure how one can be a mom of preschoolers and be terrible out of shape. I feel like everything is an athletic event!
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