I just keep telling myself it happens to everyone at some point.
Tuesday was a morning like any other. A quick snuggle in bed with my daughter, shower, make breakfast, get daughter ready for school, realize I haven’t packed lunches, rush around doing so, remind daughter fifty times to put her snowsuit on, realize we’re running late, GET THAT SNOWSUIT ON!!!, scrape enough frost off the car to see, and drive daughter to school. Whew.
Walking through the schoolyard with Sophia, I saw two other parents of children in her class. I smiled at them as we passed. Both parents shot me a strange look and kept walking. Huh? What did I do? I don’t even really know these people. Am I still in my pajamas??? No. I did remember to get dressed. My yet unstyled hair wasn’t THAT bad…hmph. Maybe they were just both in bad moods! I began to feel a little grumpy at the rebuff. Sophia happily went to play in the snow with her little friends, and I headed back home to finish getting ready for work.
Now, before I go on. I am a fairly low-maintenance kind of girl. I don’t have a closet full of shoes. I love a good consignment find or sale for my own clothing. My nails are chewed, and I don’t subscribe to Cosmo. BUT, I did decide to girly myself up a little the day before.
Looking in the mirror, I drew back from myself! There was yesterday’s mascara UNDER my eyes, and my unstyled hair was a little more than unstyled after the morning rush…….I remember this look…..I think it was from a Sunday morning back in the mid 90’s..college days (okay maybe it was more than one Sunday morning).
I just dropped my daughter off at school looking like I should be flung on a couch popping Advil and cursing the sun!
So now, I can only imagine what the other parents must be thinking about my child’s mother. Eeek. I will definitely have to make super-duper extra Martha-Stewart-y cupcakes for the next bake sale to erase what may be my new “reputation”!
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