A Mom's Heartache

I had a terrible experience of heartache today. Apparantly Kyra was chosen to recieve two awards at an assembly today and we were supposed to be notified by mail to come. Well unfortunately (that's an understatement) the letter to us some how got lost because we were never notified that she was recieving these awards so the devastating result was that I missed it! She came home and as she was getting off the bus I could tell something was wrong and my neighbor informed me that she had been at the assembly for her son and that Kyra had got these awards. My heart literally hurt! I didn't know how I was supposed to explain to Kyra that I hadn't even known she was getting these awards and why I had not been there for her. When we got home she sat on my lap, curled up on my shoulder and started crying. She cried for a good 15 minutes. Then we were both crying. It was the worst feeling to not be able to rewind and be there for her big moment of receiving her first school award. i haven't missed a fieldtrip or class party or anything all year and then I miss this! The worst part about it is that I was just sitting at home unaware of what I was missing-I didn't even have a conflict-I just never got the invitation. So needless to say we had to do something for a little celebration and cheering up and Kyra chose McDonald's as her "special lunch". Luckily after our tears we got a cute picture of her with her awards. I was so proud of her for getting these! She got the citizenship award and an Eagle award from the principal. Only 4 kids in her class got them so it was pretty cool!