While perusing Facebook, I found this hysterical rant from a fed-up, exhausted mom in the throes of red ribbon week just days before our school's red ribbon week began. Her words hit a little too close to home. Red ribbon week is every mom's worst nightmare. It's like a huge holiday that gets sprung upon you the night before when you kids comes home from school and say, "Mom! I need wacky socks tomorrow!" "Mom! You need to do my hair like a soda bottle and donuts tomorrow!" "Mom! I need an $80 costume over-nighted from Amazon so I can look like an 80's valley girl and a 50's greaser! Seriously, what part of this crappy, stressful pseudo-holiday teaches kids to stay off drugs? In the words of the wise Internet mom, "Maybe someday someone will offer my kid drugs and my kids will remember - "Wacky sock day! Crack is Whack! I'm going to stay off drugs!""
I have since learned to keep the dress-up box fully stocked, a few cans of hair color under my sink and several pairs of crazy socks in the top of my closet. Take that, DRUGS!
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