妈妈宽广的胸怀永远是我们最温暖的怀抱，即便是我们做错了事，闯下了大祸，也永远对我们敞开。可如果犯了错、闯了祸的是妈妈，而且她的错误令你感到很伤心、很失望，你会怎么做呢？
As I sat perched in the second-floor window of our brick schoolhouse that afternoon, my heart began to sink further with each passing car. This was a day I'd looked forward to for weeks: Miss Pace's fourth-grade, end-of-the-year party. Miss Pace had kept a running countdown on the blackboard all that week, and our class of nine-year-olds had bordered on insurrection by the time the much-anticipated "party Friday" had arrived.
I had happily volunteered my mother when Miss Pace requested cookie volunteers. Mom's choco
