Thing that's bothering me today: I'm feeling like a bad mom.

I have stayed on top of a lot of school-related things this week. I turned in the payment for Jesse's spring photos. I turned in the money for his P.E. t-shirt. I took the time last night to update his reading list, and we read several more books together. I checked over Jesse's homework last night. And I gave Jesse extra work on his spelling words last night. I made sure Jesse's library books were in his bag so he could return them today. I offered to volunteer at the Book Fair on Thursday night. I followed through on his teacher's request for supplies by buying pencils, wipes, Kleenex and hand sanitizer. I checked over his weekly work folder that was sent home Monday and signed and returned it.

But I totally forgot that today was the Book Fair Character Parade at his school this morning. He was supposed to dress up like his favorite book character for a parade through the hallway. He's going to be so pissed at me for forgetting. And all that other stuff I've taken care of this week will mean very little to him. The truth is that we never even talked about the parade and what he wanted to dress up like. But I'm sure I'll hear all about it when I pick him up this afternoon. And I am not looking forward to that.