Parenting fail and Mandela Day

What are you doing for Mandela Day? 

I, as it turns out, am attending a kiddy party and cooking soup for some farm workers.  Daniel’s school is giving the farm’s workers lunch on Sunday and a whole lot of parents are chipping in and making a day of it.  I am on soup duty, so am cooking soup for 10 people.

But, I’m going to have to get the soup done today.  Here’s why:

Our kids were invited to a class mate’s birthday party today and off we went to the party at the un-Godly hour of 09h30 on a Saturday morning.  It’s hard enough for me to mobilise everyone on a normal day as it is!  I had a sweet deal with hubby, he stayed at home to watch the rugby (snort) and I took the kids off as I knew there were many helping hands.  In exchange I could have a super long nap this avie. 

We were a whopping 20 minutes late I have to (shamefully) admit and it was held at a Kids Play place.

When I finally roll in, make-up on and kids dressed up carrying gift they say sorry, wrong day, the party is only tomorrow.  And then I just wonder how I could get it so terribly wrong.  What a nut.

So I thought, hey, we are here now,so we stayed and hubby got to watch the rugby in peace anyway.  I watched the men’s expressions of horror at the rugby with morbid fascination.  But I’m no sports commentator, so I’ll reserve judgement on the Springboks..

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, catch up soon!

7 thoughts on “Parenting fail and Mandela Day”

  1. LOL…I had the same thing happen to me once. Only we pitched up the day AFTER the party. My son was highly annoyed with me and I was so, so embarrassed. For Mandela Day I went through our cupboards for clothing to donate. Our church had a drive for a children’s home. We managed to fill 3 black bags.

  2. Amazing how much stuff we have we don’t use!
    I’m happy I was at least 23.5 hours early for the party..

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