My youngest sister stayed at school for an extra lunch period, so I picked her up later than usual - without realizing that I was supposed to be teaching a class in fifteen minutes - and dropped her off at her babysitting job - without realizing that I was supposed to be teaching a class in five minutes. I drove home - without realizing that I was already late - and started getting ready for the class - without realizing that the class had started without me.
Twenty minutes after the class had started - while the rice for the cracker recipe was mid-boil and I was still trying to divide up ingredients - I got a phone call from one of the co-op moms, asking if I was coming to teach today.
(There may have been a not so child friendly word that slipped out after I hung up the phone with her and proceeded to yank the half boiled rice off of the stove and throw the last of the ingredients into a bag.)
I'm still not sure what my teacher's aids did with the kids during the thirty minutes that I was not there, but they were ready and waiting when I finally did arrive, and we managed to cram an hours worth of class into thirty minutes.
And... one of the little girls stopped me as I walked in the door to give me a rock that she had painted as a present for me - just in case I needed to feel a little more guilty about forgetting them!
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