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[quote=Anonymous]Ughhh. I have 2 kids (one preschool, one elementary) and thought I was doing OK today: managed to pull together VDay cards with a small candy for all kids in both classes and even did a bunch of work for my oldest's classroom party today which I'll help chaperone. I felt good: I've been travelling like mad for work and have a zillion overdue deadlines so that seemed like a fantastic accomplishment. Put one kid on the bus and got the other in the car, where he proceeded to demand the Hershey's kisses we had taped to each Valentine for his classmates. Thinking quick, I pretended that I only had the striped strawberry version left, which he hates - gave him the bag to keep him from screaming in traffic and he proceeded to unwrap them all "to check" and then happily lob them at me and toss the wrappers all around the car... Personally I was very proud of myself yet again since at least I didn't managed to avoid bringing him to daycare smeared with chocolate and hey, it was probably good for his fine motor skills, right? Then I got there and found that (the parents of) each of my 3yo's classmates had made homemade cards, like a Martha Stewart craft contest gone mad - the winner, complete with stenciled names for each kid, paper cutout that could be hung in a museum, also individualized and hand signed by the brilliant 3yo. Meanwhile I was distributing the cheesiest plasticky cards (you know with the irridescent effect, so the race car appears to be moving?) complete with an evil dose of sugar (hershey kiss) attached. I felt like I had BAD MOTHER stamped on my forehead. And these other mothers must work, since their kids are in daycare... now I'm shuddering to think what the millionaire momzillas at my older child's school will have prepared. The only saving grace is that my kids don't care so long as there is a (chocolate) Hershey kiss somewhere in their future.[/quote]

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