Mama, Mama, Only Mama by Lara Lillibridge

Author:Lara Lillibridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510743571
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2019-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

Remember, and this is important: if he really is the love of your life and if the muffins are a complete fail, it won’t matter. One True Loves will find morning-after muffin fails endearing.

First Day of School

Big Pants started kindergarten. The very first day, I dressed him in a white polo and uniform navy blue shorts. Daddy Pants came over to take photos before school. I couldn’t believe I was trusting some unknown teacher to take care of my little boy for seven hours. What if he needed a snack? Was he allowed a snack? Should I pack a snack? Seeing as there was no snack guidance, I packed one anyway, completely unsure that he would even remember its location in his backpack—he wouldn’t turn five years old until a month after school started. He looked so small walking into the brick building with his socks pulled up to his knees.

I did what any good and reasonable mother would do. I played with Tiny Pants in the morning, then I took a long and delicious nap when Tiny Pants went to sleep. Kindergarten was a very, very good idea. After school, Big Pants’s teacher delivered him to my car personally. She had on lots and lots of glittery green eyeshadow and a really cool and funky necklace. I wanted her to adopt me.

“I’m sorry about his shirt,” she said. Big Pants’s white shirt was covered in pink smudges. “We had a fruit roll-up incident at lunch.”

“I tried to unwrap my fruit roll-up and it got stuck to my shirt,” Big Pants explained.

“It took all of lunch to unstick him,” she expanded. I thanked her and buckled Big Pants into his booster seat.

“So what else did you eat today?” I asked Big Pants on the way home.

“I told you, a fruit roll-up,” he answered. I must have heard wrong—my child ate every fifteen minutes all day long.

“But what else?” I asked.

“Nothing. That was the first thing I tried to eat. Then lunch was over.”

I have never felt more of a failure as a mother then that moment—I had betrayed him with my foolish lunch choices. Luckily, he didn’t hold it against me, as he was too excited about the kids he sat next to, the games they played, and the books they read. Big Pants was making his way in the world, fruit roll-up mishaps or no.

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