What a morning! AHHH!!! So, I am up at 5:40, both kids are up at 5:45. We are dressed and ready to leave at 6:45. We are not used to this...we are more like the rushing out at 7:30 type of crew. We weren't sure what to do with this extra time….so, the kids watched tv and I talked with Craig. So, 7:10 we start to head out the door. I tell Hope to let me carry her poster so she wont drop it in the rain. It wasn’t raining too hard, so I didn’t think that we needed a trash bag to cover the poster (as Craig had suggested). Well, we get out to the car, which I had already unlocked (planning ahead) and the passenger door was not unlocked. Darn it! I went to get my keys out of my purse and…yep…you guessed it…poster falls down (this is all in slow motion in front of me) and I worry about the edge getting wet, I try to grab it and no worries…uhh…until I couldn’t get it and it lands face down in a puddle. I am talking FLOATING….like Swan Lake. OMG! I go “ooooohhhh…uh-oh….”, Hope says, mom don’t tell me you dropped it. I get the car door open and put my stuff in the car-mind you, all the while that poster is floating face down in a puddle- pick up the poster and tell Hope in a very firm voice “DON’T CRY” and I shut the car door and run inside. “CRISIS! CRISIS!” I shout as I run into the bedroom, laying to poster on the bed. Craig is like, what happened. I freaked for about 10 seconds and then grabbed a paper towel and started soaking up all the water and wiping off all the dirt I could. Luckily Hope wrote all her sentences with a black sharpie ***shout out to sharpie here*** and not one bit of it smudged! Yippee! The paper strips started to get wavy and the pictures printed from the computer started to “melt”. We decided I would take it into her classroom-reassuring her all the way to school that it would be FINE and it will work out and at least all the writing still looks great! I took it into her classroom and laid it flat. By now it had dried enough that most of the dirt could be wiped off and there was a texture look to the poster in general and the pictures, well they now looked like water colors. Her teacher was nice enough to reprint pictures that Hope could use to replace the water colored blobs on her poster. Alas, when I left Hope’s school 45 minutes later, all was well and she was happy. I wish I had gotten a picture of it fresh out of the water puddle, however, I was panicking a bit. WHEW! First project crisis over with……that is just preparing us for more in the future :)
Here is the poster two days ago...prior to the new (character adding) texture look...
1 comments:
wow that would stink. Sounds like you were able to overcome it with pure grace!
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