Never say never!

I have become the Mother that I swore I would never be and little Trav is getting the brunt of it. This afternoon started with piano at 3:45 and 4:15, soccer at 5:00 for Quin and 5:00 for Trav, a baseball game for Jake at 5:30 and the Kindergarten Roundup at 6:30 (or as the secretary at the school says "kindygarden). Hoping to have dinner together as a family at 7:30 and Home Teachers at 7:30 also. Everything went fine until Kelton (Trav's friend that came to the baseball game) said, "My Dad is the coach of our baseball team and it starts next week." My heart dropped, how could any Mother forget to sign her child up for his favorite sport. Trav wears a full uniform to every one of Jake's games, sits in the dugout, takes his baseball bag, thinks he's the official bat boy and picks up all the bats and absolutely LOVES baseball. I immediately called the city and, of course, they are taking NO more applications. I left a message with the city manager and the rec manager and was in panic mode. Trav hadn't quite put it all together until Jake said "Mom forgot to sign you up for baseball Trav, now you can't play." Thanks Jake! Small miracles came to pass and Kole Staheli just happened to be at the fields, he was so nice and said that if one of the coaches would give him their hat he would add Trav to the team. I was the happiest Mother alive until I came home at 7:30 and realized I had forgotten the kindergarten roundup. Nice.
When Quincy and Jake were young I just could not believe that people would just leave their children at practice and birthday parties with people they hardly knew. They couldn't get their children to things on time and then didn't stay with them, how could they do that. I couldn't understand why Mothers didn't have time for the PTA and volunteering at the school, etc. That's why one should never say "I'll never be like that."
We are late for everything, my children miss their practices a lot, I have been to the kids school, maybe, five times this year, most of them to pull them out for lunch, not even to stay and volunteer my time. I leave them at practice and birthday's and am usually late picking them up.
So, for the lesson of the day: I have learned that no parent can ever give any advice until their children are all grown up and by then they usually don't want to talk because they realize they don't have the answers and never did.