I have been really happy with my preparedness for world book day this year. I had a terrible head cold and was ill the end of last week Sinuitis headache - edging into migraine level headache and I was exhausted so I slept a lot through Thursday/Friday/Saturday was still feeling ropey Monday but I went into town and gathered the things I needed to make two costumes for WBD.
Finished off the costumes yesterday - and I was happy with the results dd1 and dd2 looked great in them. All good.
Dd1 is in a different school to dd2 she sets off earlier and went off looking ace - so far so good - pic on FB for the relatives.
DD2 got dressed up and I took a picture she asked me to put that on FB as she likes the nice comments from various Aunties and Uncles etc. We set off Then she see's some children she knows from reception/ yr 1 - we are only a few minutes from school so we were virtually there. The children ask dd what she is wearing and she tells them and I say "you know for World Book day". Mother of these children (the younger one is wearing a tutu so I thought she was dressed up too..) just looks at me and says nowt. We carry on through school side gate and I notice complete lack of costumes - I say to dd2 "are you sure it is today?" She says "yes - we were talking about it this yesterday!" - clearly I had missed the bit in the newsletter where they said they were doing World Book day - - not on world book day but a week or so later!
So my dd2 school is doing WBD next week - because that makes sense, and I have dragged poor dd2 to school dressed up on the wrong frickin day - I feel terrible and stupid about it and pissed off with the school. I imagine if I had been doing all the pick ups the last week instead of sharing them with dh I may have had that useful convo with another parent where the date would have come up. But I can't be sure of that - or obviously if I had noticed the date in the newsletter - poor dd2!