The Mom Prom

On Friday the 13th, Owen's daycare had a Mom Prom, as a belated Mother's Day function.  As most reading this know, Mother's Day was the day after Derby this year.  We live in Derby City.  You begin to see the scheduling conflict.  The week before Derby the parts of town not directly involved with the track, hats, or consumption of alcohol all but shut down. We considered ourselves fortunate that the daycare was even open.  The FRIDAY before Derby is the Oaks race.  Now, having lived in KY 99.9% of my life, I have always been cognizant of Derby, but seriously had never even heard of Oaks.  For the locals, the Oaks IS the Derby.  The town shuts down.  Everyone takes off work if humanly possible. There are skeleton-crews only working, if a place is even open for business that day.  And the track is PACKED.  So there was no way that anything was happening for Mother's Day the week prior to Mother's Day this year.  Our gift from the daycare was that they were even open on Oaks.  But I digress.  Owen's classroom invited the Mom's to come at 4pm the following Friday, dressed in Prom attire if they wished, for a snack and some dancing, and a little art work.  I went straight from work, so no Prom attire from me, but Owen was OK with that. We showed off our famous wind-up-spin-and-dip, previously only performed in our kitchen, and it was a hit! :)