My thanks today may seem silly but it is a HUGE achievement for me...and maybe for several other moms.
I am thankful to have finally exhanged names with my mom friends at Bug's swim class. It is the next step in our friendship becoming a reality rather than a Friday morning figment of our imaginations. After we did it, we all laughed at how long it has gone on and how many mom's we know as only "so-and-so's mom."
Today, I have a name! And my two mom friends, Katie and Leann, have names, too!
And what further cracked me up was that when we left and went to the bookstore, we ran into a student we used to swim with, Jacob, and his sister and his mom. And unfortuantely, she still is just Jacob's mom.
Bug has been in swim every semester since May 2008. And I have NEVER known a parent's name unless we went in knowing one another. And I am not antisocial...I am always friends with several moms and dads in the watching room.
We have also been in music and those moms I knew only becasue the teacher would address us all by name. Had we waited for self-imposed introductions, we'd have all left music as mom-to-this-kid or that kid. God bless our teacher!
Has anyone else had this experience? It is funny, really.
Making Bets
2 weeks ago
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Go, Momma! I SO know how this goes. I know NONE of the names of the moms of the kids in Cooper's preschool class (how is that for a sentence?!) It is even funnier because we all chat when we are dropping and picking the kids up . . . we know each other's spouses names, pet names, etc. but not each other's first names.
(And on a side note, the fact that you have done this now is HUGE. I purposely avoided talking to the other Mom's when I was pregnant with Briar . . . having to talk about the pregnancy or to bring up Quinn was too hard for me to do in the form of a casual conversation - and I couldn't just gloss over anything.)
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