Friday was the day before  Halloween and our local school  outlawed costumes.  Party poopers !!  Instead, they sent a note home to say it would be a pajama day, at least that’s what I thought it said , It was sent  a week in advance after all.  How am I supposed to remember that?

Looking in the boys pajama drawer all I could find were some short shorts and miss-matched T-shirts.  Off to the store I went and bought cute firefighter PJs.  I laid them out the night before and I was very pleased with myself.

Much to their amusement on Friday morning, they took off their jammies and put on the new ones. They giggled  their way to school  in the car and we laughed about how fun it would be to see everyone in their pajamas !

We pull up at the school drop off line, I look around and I don’t  see any other students in pajamas!  My blood ran cold  and the hairs on my arms  stood up.  What if I was wrong? Would my kids  be that guy in the chicken suit turning up to the Halloween party and finding the costume part has been canceled?

I yelled at everyone to stay still, pulled out of the drop off lane, and into the parking lot.

Scrambling through their bags ,I found  a crumpled flyer amongst pencil shavings, crumbled goldfish crackers,  and something soggy I couldn’t identify.

Reading as fast as I could I finally found  the line ” Friday is pajama day ” .

I am a freaking awesome parent!  I got it right and others forgot! For once my kids and I  followed instructions !!  I can’t tell you how many times I have forgotten to send in cookies, markers, lunch or even a raincoat on dark cloudy days!

Of course now my kids are feeding off my previous anxiety and they don’t want to get out of the car.

My first thought was to just have them get out and endure the other school kids looking at them weirdly, but I would hear about that for the next 10 years. ” Do you remember the time you sent us to school in our pajamas, Mom?” Most people have dreams about just such an occurance, and sometimes are telling their shrink about it. So I relented and stayed parked for my kids future mental health.

We sat for another 10 minutes and finally some other children showed up in their bedroom attire.  Some even had robes on and fluffy slippers !

Overachievers.

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Phew! Dodged another Mom fail.