Oh what a morning.... my 11yo son was sick yesterday so arranged with family friend for her too look after him for 30 mins as I’d tried to rearrange my shift this morning with some but not total success. I was supposed to be working 7am TIL 1 pm one colleague offered to stay but needed to leave by 8 to be home before her dp left for work. Another colleague offered to cover but couldn’t get in until 9 as she had her school run to do. The plan was discussed with my oldest son who’s 16. He would drop youngest off as it was on the way to school. Proper panic set in as when I checked my phone at 8.55 while getting ready to leave work I had one message from middle son 15 saying “dropped off” and anther from friend asking if she had got the wrong day as youngest son wasn’t there. I went straight into panic mode where would he be then. Rang high school and they got middle son to ring me back but by this time I was out of the door of work trying to think where else he could have been dropped off at, rang grandparents who live minuets away, no where not there spent the night elsewhere so I went and checked to make sure went through my phone book anyone that lived close .... walking past the school my 11 yo goes to it dawned on me that he had probably been dropped off there, but wanting to make sure I went in and asked if he was trying to explain all of this still in panic mode. He was thankfully there but oh the looks I got from staff..... brought 11 yo home again having explained he was sick and the looks got worse.
I just don’t know quite what to do.... obviously talk to my older sons about the mistake in communication but I don’t really know if I should make a big thing out of it.... I could try and explain about the panic. But I don’t want to over react either as they are all great lads and there’s never been any fuss from my older 2 about dropping off youngest at school etc if it’s a work morning. But I’m fuming at the moment thankfully it worked out well and my youngest is safe but the panic of not knowing....... how much do I stress this point to them? Really would like some input please......