That's horrible. I'm so sorry you're having a bad day. And you're right, they shouldn't have started it early.

I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but I forgot my dd at school the other day. It was short day. I completely forgot. An hour later they called me "Mrs. _______, your daughter is in the office waiting for you"

It was awful. I felt like the worst mom ever!!!

I can be a hot head......ok ladies, you may pick yourselves up off of the floor and stop laughing now!!!! I would have been upset too. Like you said, it is hard enough to get off of work as it is. Plus this time of year is soooooo stressful even if you just stick to the Christmas stuff let alone the rest of the crap that the world throws at you. Did any of the other parents tape the program???..... May I share my little meltdown with you???

In August I had a root canal. Now mind you I have lived with A LOT of pain in my life but this was hideous! I did not get pain meds until the day after and it was hydrocodone....which makes me sick. This was all the dentist would give me so I took them as long as my body would allow and when I started vomiting I quit taking them. For months I have suffered. Monday I went in with all of us thinking that I would have to have it redone only to find that the tooth next to it had a large crack in it and so I had a crown done. No payment plan so I end up paying $360.00 that I hadn't planned on. That ticks my off.

By the time I get home and my mouth is no longer numb, I am in extreem pain. I think the nerves in my mouth are probably in shock after all of this time and they are on fire. My DH calls the dentist, dentist calls in the meds, DH picks them up and guess what????? The same damn meds that make me vomit. I decided since it is evening now that I will take one and call my doctor in the morning and get a refill of my darvocet that I have for when my sciatic nerve is at it's worst. I have been very careful not to abuse my meds. I think I've taken 6 or so in the last year.

Long story short. Pharmacy calls dr.'s office to alert them that I just got a prescription for hydrocone and now I want darvocet. Dr.'s office won't give me darvocet now and dentist won't give me anything else. All of discussion taking place in front of customers at drug store. When I get home I call the dentist and the dr. and chew out the assistants. Who are speaking for their bosses. Still no meds.

To bad the dentist had just sent me an survey to fill out on line.

I wouldn't take calls from either office the next day and cancelled my appointment for my diabetes check for today. I'm just still pissed. I am doing Advil round the clock to kept the pain bearable. I am looking for a new dentist and I'm going to take the pills into the dr's office and give the 11 out of 12 to him and tell him that I don't appreciate being treated like an addict. I even offered to take the pills into the pharmacy and give them back so that I could get some thing that helped me. What the h3ll!!!!!!

STRESSSSSSSSSSS! and then it's Christmas and my DD is still being stalked, I'm in pain, DH is sick, SD10 is a pain in the butt because she is so excited about Chrstmas and there are so many things going on at school, DS is stressing about finals but working so hard since I have had to play bad cop with him and now he is my buddy along with my little black dog. Other than that the rest of world can just suck eggs.

SD30 had to have her dog put down and now I feel bad about being upset with her...found a sympathy card to send to her for her little doggie.

I'm with you mom1stm2.....If I still drank I'm sure I'd feel better.

I have a similar story.

I had to take off a few afternoons to take DS to his baseball playoff games. Well then they had this HUGE Veteran's Day program the next Monday at 9 AM. DS was so excited and I explained that I couldn't go but that he should invite my dad since he's a veteran.

So I was bummed all day about not being able to go. Dad called me at work and told me how great it was and how emotional it was. I started crying because I really wished I could be there.

It started sprinkling on my way to get DS from his after-school program at the school. All I wanted to do was go home and sit on the couch and have a pity party.

When I get to the school, the cafeteria is full of people and my kid is in the music room. Turns out that they were having a repeat and abbreviated performance of the program earlier in the day that no one knew about until they came to pick up their kids. So like 1/3 of the group wasn't there.

Well, when i go in, I don't take anything but my keys. So here I am with no phone to warn FDH I will be staying (he'll have to let the dog out) and no umbrella and the program is going to start any minute.

So then.......it starts POURING outside. Like monsoon rain!

An hour later, the program was done, but not the rain. DS and I run to the car and end up soaking wet. I look at my phone and there are like 5 missed calls from FDH asking if I was okay or if I had been in an accident and when was I going to be home.

UGH! I could've strangled some teachers!

I forgot my SD10 at school not long ago also.....I have never forgotten a child before. She was the first.

Here's my bad mom confession...

years ago, I was taking off out of town to pick up my son from his dad's. I was running late, in a hurry and had to gather up my other two kids and my boyfriend's three. We all jumped in the van and got on the freeway (about a block from the house) when I looked in the mirror & did a quick head count. My younger son was missing. I asked the others where's M____ and they all burst out laughing because I forgot him. I had to take the next exit & when we pulled back into the driveway, there is my son... playing with his friend next door. He didn't even know we'd left him. I was traumatized more than he was.

"God D@## it!"

Mom1sm2, I'm sorry you missed the program but I think it was the teacher's fault, not God.

This season that should be such a good time causes so much stress because most people try to do too much and have everything too perfect.

Believer, I totally understand your pain and aggravation. Some pharmacist are over zealous with 'their' pills. I have the opposite problem as you ~ Darvocet makes me sick but hydrocodone does fine. Maybe we should swap. LOL. Have you ever tried Ultram? Most doctors/dentists don't have a problem prescribing that because it's technically not a narcotic but causes something in the brain to produce narcotic effects. My DH does great with it but I don't.

Ima, that's awful. My uncle forgot a kid once. We were in town shopping and got 15 miles out of town before he noticed. That's right, he left a small child IN TOWN, by herself. His wife never let him live it down. They were divorced soon after...

I had never forgotten my child before either Believer. What a horrible feeling!

Sorry about the drugs issue. It seems kind of crazy that drugs are so easy to get if they're on the street, but have some actual pain and try to go through the proper channels and you're treated like an addict. My coworker was just saying that she doesn't even take Advil usually, but when she had issues lately and needed something stronger they treated her like she was going to abuse it. And she is a super healthy, body conscious person, which anyone could tell by looking at her.

I think we can thank our government for "regulating" how meds are doled out...not to get political, but whatever... since other things are not regulated.
I had just gone thru my second stem cell transplant, and had stopped at the pharmacy to pick up numerous prescriptions. A young fellow behind the counter would not give me my pain meds because in his words "you've had too many this month"! I said "excuse me"? his reply "I'm not going to give these to you until the month is up".
I left feeling like a huge drug addict.
In the car on the way home I became more pi$$ed by the minute, thinking who the HEdoubleL did he think he was! The little ba$tard. Got home, phoned the pharmacy and asked to speak to the manager, told him the story, how PO'd I was, that I didn't need that kind of stress in my life right now and by the way, please look in your records and make sure to note how much money had been spent at their pharmacy during my illness. Just under $100,000.
He told me that they had had problems with this particular guy and that could the pharmacist please call me in the morning to get the full story. I guess they had to document his attitude. The pharmacist did call, apologized all over the place, told me how hard it was to build a clientele and to have one nimrod tear it down.
I didn't mean to hijack your posting MOM1sm2...I would make a written complaint and then a possible verbal apology for losing your cool. With a but...something like "I had no right to act the way I did the other day, you can imagine how disappointed I was to have missed juniors holiday play".