today, i failed

i failed as a mother today. my kids woke up and decided they wanted to have halloween candy for breakfast. i obliged. they wanted to play video games, i said, "ok." later on, i put them in the car, telling them that we were going to the park and proceeded to drag them across town for two errands that had to get done for primary. i did in fact take them to the park, but they only got 20 mintues of play-time in before it started to rain. for dinner, neither of them wanted to eat the tortilla soup and corn bread i had made, so i forced them to swallow a few bites of soup and they had crackers and cheese for dinner instead. i took marissa to the Y for basketball practice and dylan screamed his head off when i dropped him off at the child watch. but i had to leave him there because i'm coaching marissa's team. marissa spent most of practice crying (which i knew she would do, but i'm determined to toughen her up...even just a little bit.) after bath time, instead of reading books to them, i left them in the capable hands of their father because i had to run to staples to get a new printer cartridge so that i could print some stuff for my first primary presidency meeting tomorrow morning. only, i forgot my dead cartridge, and ran back into the house, only to find my husband planted on the couch. he said he'd read to them already...which i thought was suspect since i'd been out of the house for a whole 2 minutes. when i read, i usually take a good 30 minutes - i think he was too tired after having driven to and from south carolina today for a test that ended up getting canceled anyway...due to rain. i should have read to them first and then run my errand. i just feel like i get a d minus today. *ugh* i hate feeling like a failure.