You Get What You Get...

There's a saying in preschool that goes "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit". We use it most when students say things like "But I want pink" or "I don't like this one"....
My afternoon class is a little crazy, mainly because I'm by myself with 11 preschoolers who are either full of energy or want to just fall asleep (and to be honest, all I want to do is fall asleep too). Yesterday was crazier than normal in a lot of ways. Two seconds before the clean up bell was going to ring, I spotted a boy who had gone potty in his pants for the second time in a week. I sent him into the bathroom, had my snack helper ring the clean up bell, dashed out to the boy's bucket to get his change of clothes, tossed the clothes into the bathroom in hopes that maybe this time he could change all by himself, rallied the rest of the class to clean up every inch of the carpet area they had been playing on, all while trying to throw snack out on the tables because right after clean up is snack. If you're not one step ahead of preschoolers, you've lost them for the day. At this moment I was no where near one step ahead which resulted in all my students (minus the one in the bathroom still standing there in his wet underwear and pants) sitting at the tables with a cup of water and a napkin in front of them wondering where the rest of their snack was. This is where I lost them. 10 kids sitting there acting and sounding like wild animals while I try to pass out bananas. Chris is loudly saying "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..."which can be heard over all the other ciaos. As his neighbor Nate shouts out "I don't like bananas. I don't want one!" I think in my head "I need to tell Chris to Shhhhh!!!!" but realized I needed to address the "I don't like bananas" issue first and then tell Chris to "Shhhh!!!" So I turn to Nate and start to say "You get what you get and you don't throw a....". In the back of my head I'm still thinking "Shhhhhh Chris". So what ends up coming out of my mouth is "You get what you get and you don't throw a sh*t"....because what happens when you combine the words "fit" and "shhh"?....yes, "sh*t"! I said sh*t in preschool!! Fortunately it either went right over the kids head OR they didn't hear it because they were making so much noise. As I'm literally doubled over laughing at what I just said I hear Chris start to repeat the saying and start to panic that he is going to repeat exactly what I just said. Thankfully, he said it the right way and then shut himself up.
Ooops, Ms. Richardson lost her brain for a second! That was a close call.