There are days where I feel like I am a rock-star at motherhood. Like yesterday, I made lunch, rice krispie bars and baked cookies all at the same time and had a clean kitchen when I was done. Yep I rocked yesterday. Then there are days like today. Today is Monday. I let Everett sleep in, I checked the TV if school was two hours late nope school is on time. I checked the temp outside, -7F it isn’t that cold out for school. I wake Everett up, clothes put on. Nate helps make sure his folder, snow pants and boots are in his backpack. Everett asks, “Do I have school today?” “Yes Everett it is Monday of course you have school today.” I run out start the truck. On the way to school Everett is chatting about alligators living in a Cyprus Swamp, how you have to go in really far to see them. He goes on and on. We talk about how cold is -7F. Is -4 warmer or colder.
We get about a block from school and I notice there isn’t any cars going in and out of the round about in front of school? There isn’t any cars parked along the street? I glance at the clock and about 4 things run through my mind in 3 seconds, we aren’t that late, was school two hours late, it is Martin Luther King Day, “Everett you don’t have school today!” Yep I tried taking my kid to school on a No School Day. Good job, Brenda. Good Job!
So Everett and I headed to the gas station, Everett picked out a doughnut, a Hersey Hot Chocolate and back home we went. I dropped the ball. Or was it the universe telling me I needed to hear more about alligators or try to figure out how jelly is put into a Bismark doughnut. Maybe it was me needing to hear Everett say how good his blue doughnut was.
Raising a Farmer 
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