Day 51 - The Promise

I promise this school year I will be a better mum.

I will get Summer to bed early and wake up on time to do her hair properly.

I will make more of an effort with her school Packed Lunches, they will be  Michellen star level, not Greggs pasty level.

I will never forget her PE kit.

I will clear my work diary and go to each assembly and sports day and fight my way to the front row, I will even squeeze a tear out, so everyone can see I care.

I will ask the head teacher what she has done wrong before going into the office so I have time to prepare my shocked and dissapointed face and not burst out laughing in surprise and secret pride.

I will write to her teachers in pen and not pink felt tip.

I will make sure Summer has her knickers on each day.

I will try and talk to the other mothers....the ones that I can do without feeling the need to vomit on their Jimmy Choo's.

I will do this all. Everyday.  Honest....just not today ......, not her first day back because that totally catches you out the blue.

 I only had 6 weeks to prepare for this day.

 We woke up late, so I scraped her hair up into a lumpy pony tail, I realised that the new uniform I brought her is too small, I make her packed lunch, she wants heart cheese sandwiches, she get penis shaped ones and a box of sushi I found at the back of the fridge. I don't have her PE kit ready so I write her teacher a note in pink felt tip pen explaining. I hope she put her knickers on....... We rush out the door as I give her a pepperami and flapjack that I find in my bag for her breakfast.

-I promise tomorrow I will be a better mum.