A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how I kept mixing up my kids information as I filled out their emergency cards for the upcoming school year.

I didn’t realize I had done it before.

I found out today as an entire preschool class came running up as my daughter arrived, yelling, “Happy Birthday!” as I tried to signal to the teachers that today isn’t her birthday.

But it is, according to the emergency card I filled out last summer.

Both kids have birthdays that start with a J and end with a zero. In between there are a bunch of different letters and numbers, but one of my most frequent mix-ups is assigning my daughter a July 10 birthday.

It never got me in trouble before, but then again, she’s only 4, right?

I’d been wondering why my daughter kept asking if her birthday was this week. I figured it was because she’s not so clear on time yet. “This week” could mean this week, this month or this year.

I guess it could also mean this week. Now I understand why she asked me on Tuesday if her birthday was “the day after tomorrow.” She probably she really thought it was.

Luckily, we’d just had a conversation about her birthday driving up to her school and she knew it wasn’t today… I think.

I might find out she’s expecting presents when I pick her up from school.

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