Chrissi,
I bet there is not a mum around who has not done something like that.
I can remember getting a call from James and Matt's prep school, which still makes me get a hot flush now. I had dropped the 2 of them off at the gates, where they remained for some time before a lady from a house nearby, took pity on them. She rang the school, fortunately the janitor was there and contacted the head mistress, who the rang me.
You've guessed I had brought them back to school a day early, after a holiday. Ooops This was the sort of school where the mums have 2 very high powered jobs and still manage to organise their kids who are trilingual by 3 and in college at 12 meanwhile, their nanny is nearly as qualified as the parents and cook highly nutritious meals, loaded with omega 3 for brain power.
I only had one job and although we did have a nanny she gave my kids nuggets and fries !!!
So stop being so hard on yourself, not that you will, you are a mother. Pythagoras should have come up with a theory for that. Mother = guilt x stress + guilt squared and raised to a power of infinitum.
Could have been worse, James, was Joseph in the nativity at nursery. I arrived late amidst much tutting, just in time to see James perform the Indian rope trick with cord holding on his tea towel. Not content with that, he opened all the cards postman Pat gave to Mary, don't ask itwas a modern nativity !!!!
OOOH I think I have an idea for a new thread, how our kids can embarrass us !!!