Thursday Thirteen #41

Valentine's Day Checklist for PTA Moms

1. Volunteer as homeroom parent for at least one child's class-check!
2. Volunteer to bring something for every child's classroom (always fruit or veggies because I'm that mom, or rather I became her after seeing all the junk the kids ate when Tristan was in Pre-K)-check!
3. Buy Valentines for four classrooms-check!
4. Buy extras *just in case*-check!
5. Buy cute teacher gifts for each kid's class-check!
6. Take off work for the day to attend parties in three of the four classrooms (the ones at the same school)
7. Pester Remind the kids to fill out Valentines all week long-check!
8. Finally get three out of four to finish them-check!
9. Do the three year-old's for her, feeling a little sad because it's likely the last year I will ever do that for any of my kids.-check!
10. Have a teacher tell me at the last minute that there is one class without a homeroom mom who is not having a party tomorrow-check!
11. Email all the other homeroom moms in desperation and ask for help-check!
12. Get an almost IMMEDIATE response from everyone-check! (Our PTA may be small, but we can do anything!)-check!
13. Get all the Valentine's for all the kids loaded up in backpacks, ready snacks for all the parties, and get it all done before 10 p.m. only to have one child start vomiting profusely just as you are going to bed feeling good about tomorrow-check and sigh!

Oh well! Happy Valentine's Day anyway!

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