Random thoughts

Some random thoughts on this Monday evening...

Some times I catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror and think "is that what I really look like?" That happened tonight and I realized I look like... wait for it... a mom. I don't think I look like what I saw my mom as when she was my age (with three kids ranging in age from newborn to 13), but maybe I do. I have a new mom-ish hair cut, a 2nd baby has left me with a mom body (I am not kidding myself, it was pretty mom-like before baby #1) and I had on some mom knee-length shorts. Weird.

Part of this revelation came up because the girl I nannied for when I was in college is starting a graduate program at Harvard this fall (talk about feeling old). I had lunch with her last week and I realized how she sees me. She sees me as someone old with kids. And I think of us as being sort of the same (even though we are not at all). This didn't happen when I saw her last week, but I remember seeing her a few years ago and she was talking about music and movies she liked. She mentioned pretty common bands and movies and asked if I'd ever heard of them. I thought - I might be older, but I don't live on Mars (and I love music and movies). If she said that now, she wouldn't be that far off though. I went to a movie without a baby for the first time since Anna was born a few weeks back and was stunned at how many people are out on a Saturday night. They aren't home trying to Ferberize a baby or watching a 2 year old sit on the toilet.

Finally, to complete my random thoughts...I hope people can use this forum for sharing random kid stories in addition to looking for advice. So here is my funny story for the day. Two actually. Ok, not funny, but cute. Cute to me and probably no one else, but here I go anyway. The first was this morning in our chaos trying to get out of the house. I was the last one to get dressed because spit up on work clothes, while common, is not my best look. Anyway, Ben, Mia and Anna were sitting on the bed getting shoes and socks on and I come out with my shirt, which was a little fancy for me (meaning not a v-neck cotton T from Old Navy) and Mia said, "Oooooh, Mom, nice shirt" in a sweet, sincere voice. This was a simple compliment from a 2-year old in mismatched clothes, but a compliment none-the-less and it kind of made my day. Unfortunately I don’t think the people in my meeting this morning agreed when I started to leak on that lovely shirt. Why do I forget something every morning and why did it have to be breast pads this morning?

The other funny thing - my daycare sends us a daily email with what the kids have done during the day and they include "quotes of the day." My kid is a bit of a ham and some times has funny things to say (often things completely made up and not at all true). Well, today the teacher told me that during lunch a boy in the class was saying "I don't want to eat this, I don't want to eat that" and Mia turned and looked at him and said "Boy (she used his name, she didn't call him "boy")! What DO you want then?" Ok, that may not translate without the delivery, but it amazes me how she comes up with some of this stuff.