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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 196861" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Tonight was easy child 2's first night of tutoring. Or supposed to be.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I emailed her mom on Friday to remind her and confirm the plans we'd agreed on, which was that easy child owuld go to tutoring after school, then I would pick her up afterwards (so as to not inconvenience mom) and deliver her to mom's house within 15 minutes of the session ending. I reminded mom what room and what materials easy child needed to take.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I didn't hear back via email, so I called. Yes, she got the email. Yes, it was fine. Mom and new hubby would be home from work about 4, so they would be there when I dropped easy child off at 5.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">So I leave work early and rush home to get easy child 2 right at the end of tutoring so she's not late getting to mom's. She's not there. Tutor's not there. I call mom's house and cell - no answer (not unusual - she won't answer our calls generally). I message mom's cell, asking if easy child went to tutoring. I call the tutor's cell. She tells me easy child never showed up.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">So I head home. Before I get 3 blocks away, mom messages back that "easy child forgot" and went home on the bus.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Yeah, easy child should have rememberd. But she also needed a note to go somewhere after school besides home on her bus, and that wasn't sent. I also have to wonder, didn't mom notice easy child was home and hour and a half before she was supposed to be???</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Apparently, easy child's not the only one who forgot. But interestingly enough, she's the only one to blame.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Nice.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I'm ready to throw in the towel on this whole family.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">And the day I blame my kids for my own shortcomings, someone please shoot me.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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