Tales of an obsessive mother

I was about to pull out of my driveway and head to work when I glanced at my cell phone.

I had seven voicemails! Who could have called me so many times?

I listened to the first message, and it was my youngest daughter, Kaci, distraught and crying. You can never understand her on the phone when she’s upset, but I knew it was her. What could be wrong? So, I listened to the next message. Again, her crying, never staying on the phone more than a couple of seconds.

As I quickly headed to her school, my mind began to imagine the problem. Had someone hurt her? Had the teacher addressed her harshly? … Still, the next two voicemails were even shorter, some with only whines.

I was about in tears when I pulled into the school parking lot. I rushed to the office. “I have to talk to my daughter,” I said with urgency. “She called me on the phone distraught.”

One of the women in the school office told me Kaci was in the gym, so we quickly walked to her P.E. class. (Had she broken her arm? Was she hurt?)

When we arrived at the gym, I saw my little 10-year-old swinging a racquet and playing with the other children. She looked fine, so I was puzzled. I motioned for her to come to the door.

When she was asked if she had called me that morning, she said, “No.” …. But she had called two weeks ago.  And then I remembered getting a phone call on our home phone weeks earlier. She had been upset because she had thought an envelope with money for school pictures was missing … It wasn’t. It was in her notebook. So, she quickly recovered from her tears.

Or so I thought. I didn’t realize she had tried calling my cell phone several times. Aren’t cell phones grand? I’m not sure if anyone else’s phone does this, but sometimes I don’t get a message alerting me to voicemails. Then, one day I’ll get one that seems to push all the voicemails forward at once.

So, I left her school that morning, relieved but mentally shaken.    

When I retold this story to my family, my oldest daughter reminded me of a time last year when my worry took me a little over the top, too.

I showed up at her middle school with two pairs of pants and a sandwich.

Why?

I thought she had ripped her pants (I had seen a dark spot on her jeans when she boarded the bus, so I thought they were torn.) And news reports of tainted peanut butter panicked me because I had packed her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Well, the rip turned out to be a sticker on her jeans. But I still made her switch out the sandwiches.

My children might laugh at me for my antics, but it’s just my nature. I will always worry about my kids. — Linda Lynn

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