Thursday was just one of those days when lots of little things went wrong at work. Nothing major, but just that kind of day.
This is the week we do our Mother’s Day cards, and it is an ungodly amount of stress for such a dumb little card. Everybody needs to get their picture taken (somebody gets lost in the shuffle), everybody needs to practice making a card (because card stock is precious to me and I don’t want scribbles for moms), everyone needs to make their actual card (‘Why are you scribbling?’), and all the photos have to be printed, cut, and fake flowers applied. The final result looks like they are handing a flower to their mom. Everybody say ‘Awww’ now.
Monday, I took 21 photos and had them printed. No sweat! Right on target!
Tuesday, I took 6 photos and sent them to be printed. When I went to WalMart, the computer was down and they were not able to print them until tomorrow. Not a huge deal.
On Wednesday, I took the last two pictures. Yay! Everybody’s done! When I went to pick them up there was a computer snafu and they only had one batch done. They said they could reprint the other, but it would take time. It wound up taking LOTS of time and once they handed me the second batch I was out of that store like a shot.
I did not check the photos. Idiot move right there.
Flash forward to this morning: The rain caused some mild flooding in the CDC basement, one of our teachers had flooding so she was going to be late, other staff is out, children didn’t sleep well due to the storms, and our schedule was all off. THEN I looked at the photos and realized I had the WRONG ONES. THE WRONG ONES! The children who were only going to be there today were not going to have a completed Mother’s Day card to take home. GARRRRR!!!!
We read ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day’. It seemed appropriate.My friend Kate drove to get the correct photos from the store, I completed the cards, and after work I drove around our flooded town and delivered cards and apologies. Awesome.
Brady G. says
Pretty solid move though to drive them around to the families. Nice work!
Peggy says
Awwwww!! Love them!!
And what a wonderful teacher you are to hand deliver them! Oh how I miss receiving such things.
Brad says
Yikes! You could just have left the photos off those few cards and just put a typed message that said:
*imagine cute photo here*
Shoot… if you did that with all of them, you’d really save some time. Your kids’ parents all have good imaginations, right?