HomeschoolCPA was a homeschool co-op director for a day and what a day it was!

I've been a co-op member for 5 years and a board member for 4 years, so I'm not new to running a homeschool co-op.  I even have a book in the works about starting and running a homeschool co-op. But I've never been the director of a co-op until last Friday.

Our 50 family co-op leader, Maren, had e-mailed the board members early in the week to tell us that she had sick children and would not be at co-op on Friday. "No problem," I thought "Our number two leader, Cynthia, will be there."

Then Cynthia called me Friday morning to tell me she had a sick child.  I found myself asking, "Are there any announcements that need to be made?"  How foolish of me! What had I just volunteered to do?  The person making announcements in the morning opening becomes the director for the day in the eyes of the members, even if not officially. 

But I knew I had to help; we are a co-op, after all, and I had two free hours to "play" at being director.

• 5 mothers out sick or absent because of sick children. 3 had found substitutes, 2 needed to be replaced! Round up volunteers.
  
• One child lost during the class switch. Later found hiding in the choir room.
• Not enough money collected to pay the pizza guy.  Who ordered but didn't pay?
• Pizza guy is 15 minutes late.
  
• Pizza guy doesn't answer the phone!
• Call another pizza place. Manager frantic.  Will deliver our 39 pizzas in 45 minutes for free!
  

• Gave back pizza money since it was free.  Now have extra money leftover!  Go figure!
  
• Vacuum cleaner smoking and smelling.
  
• Church's furnace leaking natural gas. Call Cynthia. Is the building gonna blow up?
• 6 sewing machines for Homes Ec class need extension cords.  Do we have any?
  
• A visiting family needed a tour guide!

You 2 missed the most bizarre Co-op day that I have experienced in 4 years!!!  (Perhaps there were stranger incidents before my time!)  We will have to fill you in on the scrambling we were doing at the last minute to figure out why the $ amount in the envelope was not matching what was supposed to be in there (we were something like $24 short!), and then the shock on Laura's face when she realized the pizza man was not on time for delivery and after making a phone call to Dominoes, the answering machine there said they were closed!

So that was my day as a co-op director.    I went home, ate chocolate and took a short nap!

Maren,  you can have your job back. Your kids better be healthy this week!

Carol