Neighborhood entertainment

All right folks, I am going to share my most recent embarrassing moment.  I worked in the girls' pre-school classroom this morning and I was busting to get back home to get Brayden off of the school bus.  Otherwise they drive him back to his school.  However, this 'Couve girl is not all that confidant in maneuvering through snowy roads.  We pulled into my garage about 5 minutes past the regular school bus drop off.  I hurried out of the van, yanked the door open and unloaded Gavin, my neighbor's son, and then hurried the girls out.  Apparently Ellie didn't have time to grab her glove and let me tell you, the WHOLE neighborhood heard about it. 

Yes, it is usually a wonderful thing to be directly across the street from the bus stop, however, when your child/children is/are having a melt down everyone gets to witness your (lack of) parenting skills. Ellie was shrieking at the top of her lungs about her glove......I was NOT going to buy into that and help her find it because she was out of control.  I helped Gavin get bundled, I helped Dani get bundled (Ellie is still screaming like a banshee), I looked up and saw Gavin's mom scurrying over to rescue him from the utter chaos of my garage.  I also looked up to see at LEAST 6-7 parents at the bus stop waiting for their beloved child.  Yes,  ALL eyes were on ME!  I smiled and waved, and yelled (over Ellie), "Glad we can provide you some entertainment.  I'm not charging admission, but a charitable donation to my coffee fund would be appreciated."

Meanwhile.....Jackie rescued Gavin, Dani and I were ready to cross the street and Ellie is still losing it to the fullest in our garage.  I yank her up, carry her inside, tell her to sit on the stairs (yeah, right), then realized there's no way she will stay there.  I carried her up to her room and slammed the door and told her to sit there.  I ran down and got Dani and went to the bus stop.  Low and behold as we were crossing the street, our front door opened and, "MMMOOOOOMMMMMM, come here right now!" came barreling through the air." 

This is what I am so proud of, I calmly turned around and said, "Ellie you need to go back into your room."  All the parents were staring/laughing/rolling their eyes at me.  Surprisingly nobody wanted her, nor a play date with us.  :(  One friend suggested I cancel my clients today, keep the baby-sitter, and go have drinks.  That sounds better and better by the second.........(She is still screaming 30 minutes later).