A Blog About Failure

 This is about a thing that happened way back last summer but it still boils me to this day. I had written a blog about it a while back on an old blog that I forgot the log-in info for, opps. So here is a blog about a failure first class.
 Let's start with this senerio:
 You have this class you want to attend one Saturday and it will take the whole day, but what to do with your kids? Your husband has to work that day but work says he will be able to take care of the children so you don't worry about it. You just assume taking care of the children means he will be able to do just that. As the day approaches you learn that taking care of the children does not mean at home where things would be easy, it means at your husbands work. You assume that maybe it's not so bad and he will still be able to take care of the children even if it is at work and when nap time rolls around he will take them home for a nap. The day of this class you come to find out that the choldcare provided actually is a small room set up at your husbands work with some coloring books, a few crayons, some nasty lunchables meals and crackers, and for nap time blue gym mats on the floor. Not only that it also means that your husband will be frequently leaving them during the day to actually work and not take care of them this mean either leave them unattended in this room or leave them in the hands of some stranger. When faced with this what would you have done? Keeping in mind the ages of the children at the time are 25 months and 9 months. Would you have left them for this class that isn't exactly important but something you would have liked to attened anyway.
 Well this is what I was faced with last summer. I had a L.I.N.K.S class I wanted to attened for the unit my husband is in and was assured The Marine would be able to take care of the kids during the whole legth of the class, that childcare was provided. The childcare provided was a complete and total fail in my eyes. I have been to links classes before and the Marines who had children always had the day off to take care of the kids, in fact even without kids they had the day off if the wife went to the class....so why on earth was that so hard to do with this unit? I personally would not have left my two dogs in the so called "childcare" provided for that day. I really want to know who's idea that was and on what level they thought that was perfectly acceptable. So I didn't go to the class and I ended up babysitting a child of another wife who did go to the class because she wasn't leaving her son in that disgrace either. It was a good thing as my husband later reported that he would have been watching and caring for our children for a whole of half an hour total that day because he was always so busy with whatever else was going on at the unit. That means my kids would have been in whoever's hands, a person I would have not known? To change diapers and feed them, and to some how mamange a nap for them on freaking blue gym mats?! Seriously whos idea was that?!?!?! Were you smoking crack at the time? Let's review for a second just for fun!
-some coloring books and a few crayons. really that was all the activites for the day? My 9month old would have eaten the crayons all day and the attention span of a 2yr old is about a second...so what else were they supposed to do?
-lunchable meals, really? I wouldn't feed that over processed garbage to my cat let alone my two kids.
-blue freaking gym mats laid on the floor so they could nap on that?! really?!?! do you have kids? Maybe mine are really weird and prefer beds to sleep in and will not sleep in an enviroment like that will not for any reason would they have taken a nap unless fed sleeping pills.
-who was watching them all day while their father was running off doing this and that and everything for everybody?


 so really wth? this in my honest opinion is the highlight of the word fail and dare I say epic fail. way to go whoever planned that childcare event. I have my hunch on who it was but that I will go ahead and keep to myself for now. Call me a crazy mom but that was 100% unacceptable. Maybe ok for a gerbil but I don't like gerbils