Yesterday I had to be at a preschool very early in the morning, which meant I left the house about 20 minutes before Troy and Huck.  When I arrived home later I found every single light and ceiling fan still on, shoes and clothing strewn about as if there had been an attempted murder/robbery, and Huck’s bed very unmade.  Upon seeing Huck in rumpled clothing after after-school I learned a few things.  One, there was a ladybug in his bed and Daddy wouldn’t help remove it and so he couldn’t make the bed. Two, he was really, really late to school. Upon seeing Troy after work I learned one thing.  They were frantically running the mile to school when a stranger pulled over and asked if they needed a ride, and since they did, they got into this stranger’s car and she took Huck to school where he got a late pass.

And this is why we have mothers.