Emergency! Emergency! I just spilled soup all down my sweater I’m wearing today. And I have to go see a new daycare after work, without changing first! What should I do? Should I detour Target and buy a shirt? It could be cutting it close, timewise, and I could miss the tour. Should I just go straight to the daycare and pretend there’s not a stain? Will they turn me away if they notice the stain? Should I try to wash it out with water from the bathroom and hope it dries in the next few hours? It’s a tomato based soup stain, what if it just spreads it around and makes it worse? WHAT DO I DO?
I don’t want this place to ban us from attending since it is, no lie, our LAST resort if we want to escape our current daycare hell. And you’ll have to trust me, I am truly experiencing daycare hell right now. I need salvation, and if this stain keeps me from getting it, I’m holding YOU, dear internet, resposible.
Dearest of all Zoots! What is wrong with your daycare? I thought it was a good fit since you could go there for feedings. My opinion = Target
Swing into Target if you have time, because who doesn’t love an excuse to go into Target, but you could just leave your coat or jacket buttoned up over your shirt. If they ask why you haven’t taken it off, just say you’re cold. (I’ve used this excuse many a time at work or in class because I am the ultimate spiller.)
See. Spot. Save.
Or, alternately, you could heed your old tagline and just pretend not to notice the stain!
However, it is my firm belief that any problem that involves Target as a possible solution has already been solved.
Jess- Go back and read thru the past month! There’s been lots of day care problems ( I mylself read many times a day, so I am abreast of the situation) Anyway, you cant go with the soup stain on your sweater. See? If you had a messy car like mine, you would just reach into the back seat and magically find a new shirt, or jacket and most likely, matching shoes. If you dont have time for Target, do you have a coat that you could keep on like stephanie suggested?
You’re a mom. With a new baby. It’s a daycare. IMO, any daycare that turns their nose up at you for a stain on your shirt is not the kind I’d like to employ, knowwhatimean?
I’d say screw it, rock the soupy. But it depends on your scruples, not mine.
Go Target, baby. Change clothes in the Target parking lot. What? We’ve all done that, haven’t we?
Do you have a jacket or maybe a sweatshirt in the trunk of your car by any chance? If not, I say Target. They have these great new cotton fitted t-shirts that are wonderful and cost like $7. By it small so it fits after all that weightloss!
If you can’t stop by Target and don’t want to wear your coat (do you wear coats in AL?), and your shirt has time to air dry, then get some soap (hopefully dishwashing) some salt, and if you’ve got it somewhere at work (check the cleaning cabinet), baking soda. Wash in hot water. Good luck, but don’t stress, I’m sure they’ve seen stains before.
Does anyone at your office have a cardigan you can borrow? I’ve worn a cardigan buttoned-up on own in response to my own little soup incidents, and it looks fine. If not, swing by Target. Leave your office an extra 10 minutes early, though, if possible. I’d rather go soupy than miss the tour! Good luck, and let us know how it goes!
Could you call the daycare and tell them you may be just a few minutes late?
I’m famous for my last minute parking lot changes. Grab the first thing that isn’t wrinkled and go. You’ll feel more confident that you would covering up a stain.
Dude……the daycare people are going to think the soup is something from your (cute!) kid anyways…..you might as well suck it up and roll on to the tour sister!
I am TOTALLY with Rachael. You have a BABY who POOPS and BURPS and THROWS UP. Stains are to be expected. Although maybe not tomato-colered ones. ..But still!
I had to deal with the exact same thing when I was shopping daycares. I spilt my lunch on my big fat pregant belly and had to go to the day care interview with a huge stain on the front of my shirt. I wasn’t able to blame it on the baby yet, but I just kinda make a joke of it and apologized for beign such a slob.
Or you can get more soup and sling it randomly all over the current blouse, rinse and dry at one of those fancy hand dryers most bathrooms have…. And when they ask where you bought your unique and hip blouse.. you can tell them it’s an original creation.
Then they’ll be so envious that they’ll surely want your equally creative offspring to be a part of their daycare.
TARGET!!!
I’m with a lot of these gals. If you think you can breezily explain it away, just go with the stain. I doubt they’d think anything of it. If you absolutely dont want to deal with that, I would call and say you might be a few minutes late, maybe try to cut out of work a touch early and swing by Target. Change in the car. Quick quick quick!
Good luck!
Ack: being held responsible without knowing the full extent of the situation?!!! Oh, the pressure.
I’d say it depends on the type of establishment. I know places that are pretty lowkey and would rather have parents show up for the full shebang (tour and interview and such) which to them says that the parent is committed to being there for the kid 100%. And I know places that are more into professional appearance as a guage of parental involvement, so they’d prefer folks to look “all together”, and things like missing a tour isn’t such a big deal.
But it is always nice to have a great excuse to get another top.
Hope it goes well!
Try some soap on a papertowel with a little warm water. that should work!
Turn your shirt around backwards and put a coat on, or a cardigan or something, I’m in Georgia, so I know you have a coat today…. It’s freaking cold again today…..read my blog entry from about a month ago when I spilled mustard all down the front of my shirt and had to GET ON STAGE AND READ POetry. Onstage, I say, ONSTAGE !!! And I was 45 minutes from home and it was too late for Tar-jay. Disaster struck…….. if you’re ever interested….. http://spaces.msn.com/soulsisterrobyn
They don’t care about your stain, they only care if your check clears. Don’t worry about it - I’d go with it. I mean, yeah, it’s ugly. But you’re a mom and they watch kids and not only do they probably have stains on them all the time by the end of the day but they also probably see 100 moms with 100 stains all over them , too. Don’t worry about it.
Daycare hell sucks. Why do they have to make it like an episode of Guiding friggin Light all the time?
So, what did you do?? You have to keep us posted.
I know, never mind. I am late and well, kids, you know. I would have just gone like I was. I may have tried a little water but wouldn’t have stressed if it didn’t come out before the tour. I, like Isabel, am interested to know what you decided to do.
I’m guessing, because you haven’t done this yet, that you aren’t into putting her in her own bed & letting her cry it out? (Would be my advice, if you wanted it, but not sure you really do.) I have a chronic medical condition that affects my abiity to sleep well, (and thus predisposes me to PPD & PPP–scary. Hubby says I’m the type that will “eat my young.” Nice, huh?) Anyway, my baby got put in her own room from the beginning–so I could sleep & hopefully avoid the PPD (which I did. Yeah!). My peditrician (who I adore) told me “you’ll let her cry it out at some point; may be now, may be when she’s two, but you will cause you’ll want/need to sleep. They cry louder & longer when they’re older.” I have to say, for us, he was right. BTW–we got through it by setting a clock. We could go in every 10 minutes, but not before.