A cheery start to the day

Ah yes, there’s nothing like being yelled at by your son’s daycare director first thing in the morning because she decided to change the rules about the “food free” party the day of the party. Apparently, it’s for the “greater good” of the children. It’s so frustrating that she’s breaking her own rules without giving me any notice and second, her manner of breaking the news was so rude. There I was unpacking Alden’s belongings from the stroller and getting yelled at in front of Alden, other parents etc. Cheery.

There will be no jam gift for her today!

ETA Friday: So, there was no food in Alden’s classroom. I have no idea why the director bothered to tell me about the cookies in another classroom or make such a big deal out of it all. Bizarre. I did hear from another parent that the cookie classroom decorated gingerbread houses with candy from the bulk store. The bulk store. *head slap* And yes, that classroom has at least one nut allergic child.

Our evening ended with a trip to CHEO (not food allergy related!) to remove a small pompom from the boy’s nose. They were doing a Christmas craft and the boy stuffed it up his nose and before I could get to some tweezers to remove it, he jammed it up even more. While the staff seemed to say that it would “work itself out”, Telehealth had a different opinion – go to CHEO. Indeed, we ended up needing to see an ear, nose and throat specialist since the attending doctor in emergency could not remove it. After a lot of suctioning and precarious tweezing, they were able to remove the pompom.

So, tip of the day: check that your daycare is using age appropriate craft materials and if your toddler jams something up their nose and you can’t remove it easily with tweezers and they can’t blow their nose, you will need to go to emergency. These things don’t “work themselves out”… they get inflamed and infected.

Karma threw me a bone this morning to make up for the sucktitude of yesterday – the barista at Starbucks made me the wrong order so I ended up with two lattes. Which I was then able to gift to a coworker. Nice.