Confession of a desperate mother

So, I have told this story twice since it happened, apparently i am quite pleased with myself.....I walked into the gym this morning, gave my card to the lady, she swiped it like always, then I began the walk/run (me/ellie) down the hall to the child center where ellie and aria hang out during my workout. Ellie arrives in the child center 30 seconds before i do, like always because of the running she does and the shuffle/walk/try-not-to-knock-anyone-out-with my-bag-or-my-kid-in-the-other-arm thing that I do....Ellie is coughing her brains out by the time she gets there - and she always is - she is Dions daughter, she has constant post-nasal drip, allergies, MAYBE a cold from like a month ago, its like negative 50 outside, and she has just sprinted a half mile. So, the friendly teenager behind the desk asks "Does she have a cold?" and before she can get that sentence out, I firmly and guiltily reply, "SHE HAS ASTHMA".

Why did I say that? WEll, if she really had asthma, it would be obvious, right? She totally doesn't have asthma. I just said it, it came out and i have no clue why....so then i covered my lie (poorly) and said she has allergies (which have actually never been diagnosed, but I'm sure she really does have them) and I gave her the post-nasal drip bit too. So, I am feeling like a jackass, partially because I am sure she knows I am lying, partially because I am ashamed of myself, that its just IN me to lie lie lie. I never lie though. I try not to. So, I go into the locker room singing to myself to try and take away the embarrassed feeling....then i think to myself, I'm just gonna go tell her the truth, I can fix this. So, I went out and told her that Ellie doesn't have athsma, that it came out of my mouth and i didn't know why....she kinda looked at me like i was a nutjob, which I TOTALLY am...she said "you're fine". I wanted to crawl into an even deeper darker hole then, especially since there were other moms standing waiting to pick up their snot-nosed little ones (by which ellie was originally infected, by the way, even though its totally allergies that she inherited multiplied by the running and the air and absolutely NOT a cold).

I forgot to include some fib about being on antibiotics for many days previous...oh well, i will use that next time.

Just kidding. I really don't lie!!! hardly ever!!!! I was caught by surprise with this one, but hopefully next time I will keep it together and be the confident HONEST mother that I usually am :)