I coulda been a contender

For about four hours this week I was definitely in the running for the Mother of the Year award.  Since I am more typically a slacker mom, I was very pleased.  PC left for about a month on Monday morning.  I told the Pumpkin that we would do a few extra "fun" things this week to help us not miss Daddy.  It started off big...  I took the Pumpkin to school on time, then returned home Monday morning to take PC to the airport.  All was well and I was at work by 11:00.
Just before I left the office at 5:40 (daycare closes at 6:00), I heated up another serving of my lunch, and fixed a hot dog for the Pumpkin.  A quick scan of the office fridge revealed baby carrots (expired, but barely) and water bottles.  A picnic was born.  In the morning I had stashed the Pumpkin's new kite and a picnic mat I purchased from QVC in the back of the car.

So, I picked him up at school (he was the last kid as usual) and drove the 100 yards to the park next door with the "tall mountain."  The tall mountain is a very small hill but it is the only hill in town.  We spread out our mat, ate a little, then set up the kite.  Kite flying has come a long way since I was a child.  It isn't hard.  Yay.  I've never had a successful kite flying experience before so I was a little worried.  (I did have a backup plan in the event there was a kit disaster - there is a very large playground on the other side of the hill, the Pumpkin would have been content to leave the kite in its package and play there all evening.)
However, no backup plan was required.  The kite flying was successful.

To continue in my super mom guise, after we went home and had a bath I let him eat a Banana Royale in my bed.  And he ate every bite which means he ate half a banana.

The next day I was pretty much back to myself.  And I had to water all the plants PC put in before he left.  At one point in the evening the Pumpkin, in a fit of rage, stomped out the front door and yelled, from the porch, "Mom, I just hate you".  Oh well.  I was in the running for a while.