I took the kids to this amazing little place in town called the Discovery Center. It's a hands-on museum with all kinds of activities for them to do. Every year my dad gives them a membership for Christmas. We haven't been yet this year, so I decided to surprise them after school. The place closes at 5:00, so since this WAS after school, they ONLY had two hours to play (Zach's words, not mine). It's funny how you go from being "the bestest, coolest mom in the world for for taking us to our favorite place," to "did you know we would only have two hours to play?" Like it was a conspiracy theory on my part. Ahhhh, the love of a 7 year old.

So on the way home, he springs on me that since Friday is Valentine's Day, his teacher decided for them to go ahead and take their tests tomorrow and get them out of the way. Love how he kept that little tidbit of info to himself after I told him we were going to the Disc. Center. Because had I known that we would have to write 10 sentences and 10 sets of rhyming words and study our spelling words and vocabulary words and read a book AND finish our little report on the penguin A-N-D cook dinner because Dad called and was working late and was supposed to be home cooking aaa.....nnnnn....ddddddd give a haircut because spring photos at school tomorrow. Do you get the picture??? Yep, there would have been no discovery center for us today!

Thus my reign as Mom the Terrible continues because he didn't get to play very much tonight and (because I have a little case of Tennis Elbow), I made him sit in the kitchen while I cut his hair instead of the bathroom. "The kitchen just didn't feel right," he tells me. Oh, and I didn't let him have anything sweet for dessert, because we were so busy. So can someone please polish my trophy for Mom of the Year??? I have a nice little spot on my desk for it!!