My Big Mistake, Part 1
I've been very mistake-prone lately. Let's chalk it up to the unavoidable pitfalls of being a waiting spouse, shall we? I'd hate to have to admit that I'm just a complete flake by nature.
My children are running a race for charity in New York City next week. They are extremely excited about running in Central Park and helping to raise money. And our friends and family have been extremely generous with their sponsorship donations. (Thank you, everyone!)
My mother-in-law was especially generous. But she didn't want to make a donation online so she sent me two checks for five hundred dollars each made out to my children. My plan was to deposit them in my account and then use my credit card to make the donation online.
But I threw them away.
Yes, I threw one thousand dollars in the garbage!
In a frenzy of cleaning I threw the envelope containing the checks into my kitchen trash. I didn't realize what I had done until the next night when I was checking the kids' donation amounts online.
Of course, in my cleaning frenzy, I had also bagged up that trash and taken it to our outside bins.
I had to go out in the dark and root around in the trash bins with the lizards, and the bugs, and who-knows-what-else! I found the right bag and brought it inside. I sorted through all the garbage on my kitchen floor. And there, at the very bottom of the bag, creased but stain-free were the checks.
I deposited those babies as fast as I could before--I don't know--the dog chewed them, or they got knocked into the shredder, or I decided to use them as scratch pads!
I think this only goes to show you. It doesn't ever pay to clean in a frenzy.
My children are running a race for charity in New York City next week. They are extremely excited about running in Central Park and helping to raise money. And our friends and family have been extremely generous with their sponsorship donations. (Thank you, everyone!)
My mother-in-law was especially generous. But she didn't want to make a donation online so she sent me two checks for five hundred dollars each made out to my children. My plan was to deposit them in my account and then use my credit card to make the donation online.
But I threw them away.
Yes, I threw one thousand dollars in the garbage!
In a frenzy of cleaning I threw the envelope containing the checks into my kitchen trash. I didn't realize what I had done until the next night when I was checking the kids' donation amounts online.
Of course, in my cleaning frenzy, I had also bagged up that trash and taken it to our outside bins.
I had to go out in the dark and root around in the trash bins with the lizards, and the bugs, and who-knows-what-else! I found the right bag and brought it inside. I sorted through all the garbage on my kitchen floor. And there, at the very bottom of the bag, creased but stain-free were the checks.
I deposited those babies as fast as I could before--I don't know--the dog chewed them, or they got knocked into the shredder, or I decided to use them as scratch pads!
I think this only goes to show you. It doesn't ever pay to clean in a frenzy.
Labels: "Mom-of-the-Year", challenges, deployment, kids, life at home, waiting, wife
posted by Major Mom at 11:09 AM
Karen is a military wife and stay-at-home mother to a seven-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son. A Boston native who’s lived in the Shreveport-Bossier area for eight years, she spends most of her time volunteering at her kids’ school, supporting her husband, playing with her friends and watching her hair turn gray. In between, she writes about her life here on her blog.
2 Comments:
Yikes! I'm so glad you found it! Reminds me of those 'fun' times going through the trash (mine, school's McD's even!) searching for my retainer!
LOL. Oh, that's funny. I was just thinking about looking in the trash at school for my retainer. It might as well have been $1,000 because my parents were going to kill me if I lost it.
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