The good, the bad and the Rewind Please

So today started out good.  I watches The Roy Rogers show and worked on my booth for Fiber Christmas.  I came up with a crochet along for the adults to do

and a kit for kids to do that makes a friendship braclet.

    My only thing left to figure out is if I should charge for the "kid kits" Each kit cost me about 35 cents when everything was done but I am not sure if I should let them do them for free or charge them the 35 cents to recover my cost??  Does anyone have any opinion on this one?  PLEASE let me know.  You can either leave a comment or email me at rj@barnontheweb.com  
    Mom and I also worked on a few display ideas and this is what we came up with... We don't know how they will be laid out on the table but we will figure that out when we get there. 

Alpaca Sample display

Roving display

Stitch Marker display

    From there my day went very sour.  You see I had planned to go to a friend's house to go Roping.  We do it all the time.  Mom gets some time at home and Dad and I get time in the roping pen.  Anyway there were a few details that were left out but like normal Dad and I loaded up and headed out about 5pm.  When we got there they were having a big cook out and the guys were roping.  Yup, you guessed it.  Dad and I didn't tell Mom it was a cookout.  We just said we were going roping.  To be honest I don't remember my friend saying anything about a Bar-B-Q or cookout.  
    Anyway, we roped like normal and then took a dinner break.  After we ate and went back to roping Dad called Mom and said he was getting tired and could she come trade places with him so he could come home and go to bed.  Mom, like every other time, thought nothing of it and came on out in the car to send him home.  
    When Mom got there she saw everyone in their Sunday best and the cookout going on.  Did I mention that Mom didn't get cleaned up because Dad said in his text to her that it was just us three boys there roping???  She came out in her shelter work shirt, shorts and her mix matched crocks.  In Mom's words she was horrified ... But what could she do?  When she found out that they had fed us Mom went and told them how sorry she was that she had not provided anything to go with the meal and explained that had she known that it was a cook out she would have made every effort to do her part. 
    To be honest I didn't really understand what the big deal was.  Then this morning Mom told me a story and that kind of made me understand.  Or at least I think I understand most of it anyway.  Mom asked me how I would feel if my Friend had a big cookout and roping. She said that what if when his horse got hurt and needed doctoring he called me to help him do it and of course I went but then he left me to doctor the horse and he went back to his cookout and roping???  
    My heart sunk ... I knew I would have been very hurt and angry. (Just like Mom is) I know that I didn't do right in that situation but I also think that my Dad should have known what to do.  Shouldn't he have been the one to call Mom and explain??  Shouldn't he have been the one to excuse us and say that we really should go home and eat with Mom???  How am I suppose to know what to do if my own Dad doesn't ... Now we are both in the Dog House ... Thanks DAD!!!!