Weekend Update

So on Saturday I almost thought I had officially become "that mom." The flaky, lost-her-brain, undependable kind of mom. The kind I swore I'd never be.

We got Rylan's soccer schedule at the beginning of the season and I wrote all the times in on both my paper calendar and my phone. I knew the game this week was at noon, so at 11:52 we walk onto the soccer fields and look around for his team. No sign of them. After a few minutes we went to the concession stand to look at their schedule. Our team played at 10am.

Oh crap.

I screwed up.

And since we had to miss a practice and the last game due to Rylan's swine flu I really felt bad. There's only 5 kids on the team and 4 have to be on the field so it is exhausting when everyone's not there.

I literally felt sick. Rylan didn't seem to mind too much, so that was good. But Lance had driven all the way home from Arlington where he was doing some work just to go to the game and then planned to drive back. Wasted trip.

We got home and I looked at the calendar on the fridge. I was exonerated! The schedule says noon!!! Hurray!!! Then, of course, I became indignant.

I re-read the coach's email from Thursday saying practice was rained out (again) and saw a little mention of "Game at 10, field 5"at the very bottom, which did not grab my attention since there was no mention of a time change.

Turns out the coach lost the schedule she passed out to us so she goes to the league's website each week for the time of the game and apparently they changed it. Somehow I'm the only person who missed out on this fact, which is still beyond me.

Sometimes you just can't win.

I'll save my McDonald's story for tomorrow. I had to get medieval on a couple of hoodlums. Still getting worked up when I think about it. But right now I have to go give some baths.