Today I brought Ironflower to school a little bit early. I had to hang up some notices on her class’ bulletin board, responsible class mother that I am. And I had to borrow Mrs.G’s stapler to do it.
I popped my head in and asked, simply mentioning that I had to post some class mommy stuff. A few minutes later Mrs. G opened the door and gave Ironflower the warmest welcome I have ever seen. She got a hug and a comment about her cute outfit (her shirt said, “Tiaras make you taller”, and its pink matched the pink flowers on her jeans - I love that outfit). I thought to myself, hmmmmm, that’s quite a change.
Lovebug and I went about our day and then went to pick up Hubby for the school pick up. Hubby has been dying to check out the situation, as he thinks I’m being paranoid about Mrs.G’s behavior. He went to the playground to get Ironflower while I watched Lovebug sleep in his carseat.
Ironflower got a hug from Mrs.G and Hubby got lots of positive comments about her behavior. Now Hubby is convinced that I’ve been paranoid and overly critical. I’m equally convinced that Mrs.G has put Ironflower on favorite status now that she’s realized I’m a class mother and could make her class parties a living hell.
(Class parties suck for teachers and never believe for one second that they enjoy them. I once blew off a Valentine’s Day date in favor lying on a colleague’s couch with a six pack after a class party.)
I know I should feel bad that Mrs.G is getting away with playing such favorites. But more than anything I’m relieved that Ironflower is getting the affection she deserves. I can’t believe I’ve turned into one of THOSE mothers. (In my defense, though, I will say that at least I stopped Lovebug from throwing mulch at the park today, even though he was enjoying himself immensely.)
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Leslie // October 17, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Hmmm. I wonder what has made her change her tune? Perhaps it is the class mother thing.
I always notice that people are a little different with Dave than they are with me. I’m not sure why, but when Dave goes along to gymnastics or swimming - the teachers there are different. It’s interesting.
Merry Jelinek // October 18, 2007 at 2:04 am
That’s the thing about motherhood, even though ‘those’ mothers annoy the heck out of the rest of us, we never fail to become that way when it’s our own child.
I hope the rest of the school year sails smoothly for you.
as a side note, I actually stop in to read you a lot more than I comment, but your page takes a long time to upload and if I try to click on anything before it’s done, my windows shut down. I had the same problem with my blog and it turned out to be the blogging chick blogroll took forever to upload. Just thought I’d let you know - as I didn’t want you to think I didn’t like the posts.
Jerseygirl89 // October 18, 2007 at 2:32 am
Leslie - I’m not sure what it was, I’ll have to see how she acts tomorrow! And yeah, I think Dads definitely get better treatment.
Merry - I’m glad it’s normal to cross over to the dark side when it’s your own kid.
I’ve noticed the problem too and I’m not sure what to do about it - how did you fix it?
Merry Jelinek // October 18, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Hi Jersey,
I removed the blogger chick blogroll (it was a huge blogroll that had graphics and took a long time to page up)… Yours is probably one of the do-dads you’ve got on your sidebar - I also noticed with mine that it took longer to page up with pictures on the blog, but the main problem was the blogroll…
You might want to play around, removing some of your extra things in the sidebar, you can always replace the ones that aren’t the culprit.
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