Most excited kid at the dance recital - seriously
Playdates – every mom’s nightmare. Why, you ask? Well, because it can be a huge blow to your ego when you can’t book one for your little munchkin. Not being in on the birthday or playdate circuit is pre-school social suicide.
Ava has a steady 1-2 friends who are open for playing any time of the week, but there are a few that just can’t seem to synch their schedules up with ours.
I don’t take it personally, really. Well, sometimes I do. Take, for instance, the mom who would never return my text messages for playdates. Ava loves her daughter and pleads with me daily to set something up with her. She wants to play with this little girl so badly that she corners her poor mommy at any opportunity to ask when this whole thing is going down. It embarrasses me, but what is an Average Supermom to do?
Well, I explained to Miss Persistant that it is the mommy’s job to set up playdates, not the kid’s and that she needs to stop harassing this little girl’s mommy every chance she gets. Luckily, she stopped bothering her (at least, as far as I know). But I still felt the need to find a reason to text this evasive mommy to get a conversation started.
Last night, I found out Ava had this little girl’s leotard in her ballet bag. Score! I took a picture of the leotard and immediately texted The Mommy asking if it belonged to her daughter. Again, no response.
Alrighty, I thought. I’m pretty much done here. And then I ran into her today.
There was a dance recital at the preschool this morning. The mommy in question was late, but waved and smiled as she came in to the gym to take her set. “How odd,” I thought, considering a blow off as recent as last night. I smiled and waved back, I mean, I’m not a monster.
After the little recital ended, we gathered up our rowdy four year olds and herded them back to their room to change clothes. I asked The Mommy if she had gotten my text message about the leotard, as cooly as I possibly could – mostly because I was afraid to embarrass her for ignoring me. And you know what she said?
“I haven’t had text messaging since January. I’m so sorry.”
Who’s the Average Super A-hole now? Yeah, that would be me.
Had to chuckle. I’m so bad for assuming the worst — which, yes, leads to a-holery.
Luckily, we don’t deal with the play date issues. I don’t think my nerves could withstand the social politics!
Social politics suck. But mostly I’m just amazed at how busy other families are. I mean, we have free time all the time. Am I doing something wrong here? Maybe that’s a blog post for another day?
Oh no! That sucks. I’ve had things like this happen to me too and I’ve learned the lesson that I’m not a total asshole and maybe people aren’t avoiding me and there IS a good reason for it!
I’m probably still an asshole, but for different reasons. Ha!!
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