Friday, May 27, 2011

Bring lunch and walk gingerly

A happy mom and a handsome ginger
Apparently my reputation proceeds me. When it comes to my orange hair, freckle-face 14 year old, he has heard the stories of about me embarrassing his brothers intentionally and on accident. 


Since our summer vacation has officially begun, I'm recalling this one particular Friday during eighth grade. Honestly all I was trying to do was be nice. Is that such a big problem? Zheesh.


I bought a pepperoni pizza roll from Great Harvest Bread Company. They are so good! Like a dutiful mother, I drove it still warm to the school. It was near lunch hour and I wanted my Ike to have something to eat. I promised I'd drop it off for him.


Peeking my head through the glass window on the door, I observed an orange hair, freckle face 14 year old boy. I recognized the child as one of my bairn and with the turn of the knob, I entered the classroom. This is an acceptable thing to do at our OS's school, I didn't break any regulations, except for the one Isaac had in his mind.
pepperoni rolls are really delish
and they kinda, sorta look like footballs


Instead of merely handing the pepperoni roll to him, which seemed rather dreary, I pretended I was a quarterback. The pepperoni roll was shaped like a football and it didn't seem like any big deal. With exaggerated, slow-action motion, I simulated a deep pass to my boy. The pepperoni roll remained in my hand. It didn't go flying. All the kids laughed as Isaac sprang out of his chair for the interception. We hugged, I'm fairly sure I kissed him, closed the door behind me and enjoyed the rest of my day.


But what I learned later is that Ike was aghast at my shenanigans. Especially when one of his buddies said, "Did your mom really just come into class pretending to throw you a pepperoni roll while the teacher was praying?" "Um, yeah," was my boy's reply.


I guess in my haste, I hadn't noticed that Mr. A was praying. I didn't observe the subtle clues such as silence and head bowing. Oops.


All sorts of fish stories in our family!
Do you know how many times Ike has retold this story? It's sure to be one of the legends of the W-H family. Each time he recounts this moment, it grows like a fish story.

Which has me wondering...do you have similar MOMents? 

3 comments:

ikceb said...

Well, there was the time in 8th grade when my daughter called home because she had forgotten something that I had reminded her about a zillion times. I was very tired and yelled at her through the phone not realizing that it was the speakerphone on the wall. She then said, "Dr. Stephenson said you are talking to loud." Ooops.

ikceb said...

Sorry for the typos, etc. Don't tell anyone I used to homeschool!

Kristi Butler said...

My kids love to watch me watch America's Funniest Videos. I react...out loud...a lot!