It has been one of those days...
I had to rush to 7yo ds2's singing-in-the-shopping-precinct thing from a seminar that ran on late, it rained, the bus was late and I didn't have my coat (cos I had a temperature when I left the house and couldn't stand to put it on - yes, I know, idiot), when I got there I couldn't get near enough to see him or let him know I was there due to some bloody woman bleating behind me clutching a baby of no more than three months who apparently was "desperate to see her sister sing", dh was itching to hand over and get away to a group he runs on the other side of town so I got dumped with wet kids in a crushing crowd in the rain, and I have had flu for a week and was coughing like a twat all the way through the singing and getting tutted at, the kids were clamouring for the fucking "hog roast" which the school had built them up for all week and for which there was a MASSIVE queue, and ds2 didn't fully believe I hadn't missed the singing so I couldn't say no to the bloody pig sandwiches as well
met a friend and her dh who I haven't seen for ages, walked half way home with them - I managed to forget that dh had gone and therefore didn't have ds2, so my friend and I were striding up the road with ds1 and her 7yo shouted "Greensleeves has left ds2 behind!" - there he was on the other side of the crossing, crying his little eyes out, her dh went to get him, I got flustered and ran in front of a car and picked him up like a bloody toddler which I'm sure he HATED in front of all those people, her dh was going "there's a car, Greeny, there's a car" and their ds was going "why did Greensleeves leave ds2 behind Mummy" and ds1, who remained blithely Aspie throughout, was twittering on about some sodding Maths construct he's been regaling his teacher with, so I snarled at him "take a breath for God's sake, I can't hear myself think", then ds2 starts wriggling trying to get his hand out of mine, so I snarled at him as well "It's not that I WANT your hand glued to mine with applesauce and bloody pork fat, I just need to know where you ARE"
so NOT MY BEST PARENTING DAY EVER