Rewind about two months ago. I was talking to a friend about how she had to go to jury duty. I said, "knock on wood, I've never been called to do that." Fast forward to December 30th when I went to my mailbox anticipating late-sent Christmas cards and saw a nice envelope from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg court system with the words "Jury Summons" on the outside. Aw, man! I quickly opened it and saw that I was being summoned to do my civil duty on February 14th, 8:00 at the court house....AND I need to expect to stay until 5:00. Hold that thought.
At Caroline's school, parents are invited to sign up to be "lunch mom" at least once a month. Each time it's been my turn, she'll be so excited and Roy Austin will be so sad because his preschool class doesn't have lunch moms and he wants me to do this in his class. I guess he wants to show me off:) So each time he gets sad over me being the lunch mom, I tell him that I get to help with his class' Valentine's Day party. I've told him this for months and he has wanted to know for those same months how far away is February. Last week, it was my day to be the lunch mom and he told Caroline in the car at drop off that I was going to be his Valentine's party mom, so he wasn't going to be sad. I agreed with him and then I remembered....THE JURY SUMMONS!!! I instantly had major middle-child mom guilt.
So tonight the word "February" came up in conversation and he said, "my Valentine's party is in February and Mommy's coming to that." Again....M A J O R middle-child mom guilt. I decided it was a good time to warn him, so I explained jury duty to him in the best way I could to a disappointed 4 year old, and I watched his little expression turn so, so sad. So I quickly said, "Don't worry! Daddy's going to be there!" Yikes, I hope Roy is okay with this. He'll have to be the hero who stands with the other moms in a classroom of 4 year olds passing out Valentines cupcakes, juice boxes and playing games. I just wish on my jury summons paper where it has a place to write in a legit excuse I could write " Valentine party mom at son's preschool, scheduled for months in advance." I don't think they'll go for it.
PLEASE LORD, LET ME GET OFF!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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Hopefully they won't call your number! Dave was supposed to report last month and called in and found out they didn't need him!! Now, me on the other hand, I was called and sat for a WEEK just going through the jury selection process and ended up going home not hearing the case after all. YUCK!! Poor Roy Boy! I'm sure Roy will do a find job handing out cupcakes though. :)
I don't know if all states are different with this, but when we lived in Florida I was called for jury duty. But on the form I had to fill out and send back it to the court , it had me answer questions about my daily schedule--ie, do I have anyone under school age or elderly that depend on me for daily living. I checked YES, and listed the ages of my three little ones and then wrote in, "nursing an infant"--they called me and told me I wouldn't be needed. Maybe this will work out for you too sweets! Sorry!
On another note--Dolly said you are coming up here this weekend! YIPPPEEEE!!!!!
Is there any way we can send this blog post to the court? Poor Roy Boy. I really hope you can get out of this. Hopefully you can request to be let off because of others needing to depend on you. Call them and find out if you have options in that area. I sure hope so.
Call the tell them you have a baby and two school pre-schoolers and have no one to take them and pick them up from school. They will excuse you. Tell them you will have to bring Charlotte to court and they will excuse you quickly!
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