Because Mom is gone and scheduling is a little tight, I have had to pick up Alice early from day care for the last couple of days. The first time, I didn’t really need to pick her up early, but because everyone (except Mom!) was home, I thought we’d have some extra quality family time. But no, Alice was having snack and there was cake for later, so the boyen and I had to hang out at the nearby coffee shop for a while until Alice was ready to go.
I had to pick her up early the next day and again, I arrived in the middle of snack. The teachers assured me that they didn’t spend the entire day having snack. Alice wasn’t happy about leaving but we had a schedule so we packed up her animal crackers and headed out. I apologized to the staff for grabbing her out of snack, but her mom … at that point the teacher said “is in California — we’ve heard all about it”. I am sure they had.